Karthik Tadepalli

Oct 7, 2024 | asteriskmag.com | Karthik Tadepalli

To many people, “development economics” is synonymous with the randomized controlled trial: randomly assigning some group of people to an intervention, like cash transfers or malaria protection nets, in order to tell if it really makes the recipients better off. RCTs have revolutionized development economics and international aid policy.

Mar 20, 2024 | newthingsunderthesun.com | Matt Clancy |Karthik Tadepalli

Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in the past few centuries, but much of that progress is still limited to the richest countries. Even though incredibly advanced technologies have been invented and used in rich countries, they diffuse very slowly to the developing countries where most people live.