Week of Events
Monday, May 22, 2023
No events on this day.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 -CPPF Meeting on Guatemala
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May 23, 2023 -Encouraging Technology Adoption in Agrarian Societies
CPPF Meeting on Guatemala
On 21 March 2023, CPPF convened the 14th meeting in a series of meetings on the situation rule of law, corruption, and impunity in Guatemala.
Encouraging Technology Adoption in Agrarian Societies
Solutions to many of today’s key development challenges hinge not on creating new technologies and solutions, but in understanding why the poor do not adopt seemingly beneficial technologies that already exist. Throughout the developing world, there are countless examples of technologies that appear to be welfare enhancing but are adopted by the poor at very low rates. Examples span health, finance, and agriculture sectors, and include cleaner cook-stoves, anti-malarial bednets, toilets, fertilizer, weather insurance, and improved seed varieties. To make progress on these problems, we need to understand the sources of behavioral or structural barriers to new technology adoption, in order to devise policies and marketing strategies to address those barriers. This talk will highlight economic analysis and randomized-controlled-trial based field experimental methods applied in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to make progress on these questions.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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Thursday, May 25, 2023
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Friday, May 26, 2023
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Saturday, May 27, 2023
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Sunday, May 28, 2023
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