Arianna Legovini
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Driving Impact through Actionable Scientific Evidence | Founder & Director of DIME @WorldBank | Champion of Collaboration and Innovation
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Many students reach out to explore opportunities at DIME. Please visit our website to learn about our biannual hiring drives:
Also, check out the
#McNamaraFellowship
for year-long research appointments.
#coding
#ImpactEvaluation
#RCTs
#AI
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Dictators overreport GDP Growth by 35% 😱
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DON"T MISS World Bank's DIME is hiring 27 entry-level positions! Opportunities for hands-on experience with development research related to gender, climate change, transport, governance, and other topics. Deadline: October 26th, 2022. Details:
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Child-under-five sugar intake decreases adult economic and health outcomes by 10 percentage points 🥹
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📢 Calling all field researchers! Join DIME's free, virtual course on Manage Successful
#FieldResearch
. Dive into the world of field research and elevate your skills!
Learn more here ➡️
Register by May 31st 11:59pm EDT ➡️
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Our spring recruitment drive just went online! Join the fantastic DIME team. We put research and creativity to the service of people, prosperity and the planet.
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Thrilled to announce that the window for the World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program is now open. Apply by April 30! 8 paid fellowships will be awarded to young researchers interested to make a difference in development. Please retweet!
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Exciting opportunity for 8 students and young researchers to make their mark in the world! Please retweet. We are about to launch the new Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program! Watch this space!
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Do you want to make a difference in development, put to use your data, organizational and communication skills? Be a research assistant or field coordinator at DIME! Apply by April 25. Thanks for retweeting.
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Today I am hugely honored to receive the Experimental Research Section
@APSAtweets
2022 Public Service Award for furthering the generation and use of experimental research in public policy. Thanks
@Davidyokum1
@danrubenson
Anadelao! Sharing this award with my amazing DIME team!
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Great opportunity to join the DIME team as a fellow on government analytics. You are still in time to apply!
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Excited to announce our new paper showing that we can use social media data to inform urban policies in data "poor" contexts. Only 1 percent of the road network is responsible for 50% of deaths.
@smilusheva3
@lupe_bedoya
@sarawilliams
@robamarty
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At DIME we have mandated reproducibility packages for all our papers since 2019. I am happy to announce that DIME will now offer reproducibility checks for the whole World Bank and its Policy Working Paper Series. Pushing forward credibility in research!
@FKondylis
@mariaruth83
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Celebrating the completion of DIME’s reproducibility course!
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Excited to announce DIME's market openings. Looking for extraordinary economists interested to make a difference in the world!
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contributing to quality in development research!
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Women Role Models Rock!
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So exciting. This is our summer school in Maputo training the next generation of researchers in the art of making a difference through science! Looking to expand our collaborations far and wide.
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Check out the scholarships we offer graduate students in developing countries
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As part of
@wb_research
we develop open source tools to increase access to actionable information to all. I encourage all researchers to think about bio products of their research that can be put to public use. We’d gladly help you package and disseminate it to global audiences
How can policymakers or researchers know what is happening across a city or an entire country?Meet the googletraffic
#R
Package: a new tool to measure
#congestion
across large
#spatial
areas .
@alegovini
.
@smilusheva3
.
@robamarty
.
@wb_research
.
@worldbank
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@FairfaxCountyPD
This is Nico’s mom. It’s been a week and he’s still missing. Please look in your backyard and the woods around your house. Nico is probably weak and dehydrated. He might seating in a lotus position. He is gentle and kind. Please help. If you help we will find him. Thank you
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Why reproduce the results of papers before they are published? We cannot afford to provide inaccurate information that could negatively impact policies and the individuals affected by them. Our experience shows that only 16% of results, graphs, and charts reproduce as reported.
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5,500 papers were retracted in 2022 up from 119 at n 2002. Five thousand five hundred. If you still don’t think the time to act is now, think again.
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Cash transfer programs are associated with reductions in mortality of children under five and women. Effects are larger for widespread programs with larger transfer amounts 👇🏾
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Get ready for a fantastic showcase at MeasureDev 2024! Dive into the cutting-edge world of AI from pioneering the next wave of AI tools, to harnessing the power of generative AI for social good, this event can’t be missed
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Dime’s program on school meals with the
#wfp
show important impacts on enrollment, learning, gender empowerment and local food markets
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Join us from May 1-5 for
#DevImpactWeek
🚀 to launch our flagship report "Driving Revolutionary Ideas into Practice" with Esther Duflo &
@IndermitGill
, & share the latest on how data & evidence can revolutionize development.
Find out more:
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Apply to The Robert S. McNamara Fellowships —deadline April 3, 2023. Fully unded fellowship to do impactful research to save lives, improve youth job opportunities, educate and connect. e=c99d13bf13&trk=feed_main-feed-card_reshare_feed-article-content
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💃🏿We extended reproducibility practices to the rest of the WBG
💃🏿We will train think tanks on reproducibility worldwide
💃🏿We are building a whole new infrastructure for housing and analyzing microdata—the next step in integrity of data and code
Time to dance to a new tune!
Y'know, if we wanted a (probably) lawsuit-proof social science data replication and fraud detection team to take up
@DataColada
's work, wouldn't the obvious candidate be
@WorldBank
's DIME?
@alegovini
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Call for expression of interest—exciting opportunity for Local researchers to join our Partnership for Economic Inclusion’s IE Collaborative in Malawi, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Angola, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Haiti, and South Sudan!
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Research is not merely an academic exercise; it is a catalyst for change. Our mission at DIME is to turn research findings into actionable steps that address real-world challenges.
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DATAX 🥇New transformative initiative informing tax policy for economic growth and equity with microdata
@thiagoscot
@AnneBrockmeyer
@DarioTortarolo
@lucas_zavala
@EmiliaSkrok
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I am glad to report that our 2023 Manage Successful Field Research course was a success!
* 213,000 views <>
* 4604 participants, 62% from Africa
* 51% increase in test scores for in-person and
* 30% increase in test scores for the virtual course
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Trained 40 graduate students at our summer school, awarded them research grants from
@Stata
and hired the two best students
@impacteval
. Congratulations!
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Want to live better and longer?
Here are the 6 lessons I got from the literature on longevity:
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After doing this for many years, we have a pretty good idea on the value added of experimental research. Small investments in research of less than 1 percent of project value buy us large increases in development impact of more than 50 percent. That’s a lot.
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Great new paper
@SvetaMilusheva
for managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data - ScienceDirect
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I loved Esther Duflo’s remark on the impediments to progress — we should fight against the 3 “I”s: ideology, ignorance and inertia.
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@Idah_WB
@FKondylis
the first edition of the DIME Impact Evaluation Summer School in collaboration with Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo this past July was a success!
@astridzwager
@dahyeon_jeong
@stevenglover
@r_khincha
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How exciting! This is our first cohort of 40 government fellows. They will be ambassadors for innovation and science across the world.
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Today I had the pleasure of welcoming the class of 2022 McNamara Fellows: 11 exceptional young professionals selected out of 1100 applicants to experience economic development research in the making and find their ways towards making a difference! So exciting.
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Delighted by the quality of the interventions on our first day of
#DevImpactWeek
Thank you E. Duflo,
@IndermitGill
, and all those who joined the conversation!
Tomorrow we'll take a deep dive into climate change infrastructure. Let's make an impact 🚀
➡️
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Aspiring to make a difference in the world through actionable research and creativity?
It’s the time to apply to our exciting fellowship program. Fully paid 9 month program setting you up for success. Please retweet.
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On the importance of paying attention to the construction of large infrastructure projects. Don’t be fooled by headlines. Getting social returns from them is not automatic. A call for researchers to work during construction to find ways to improving outcomes and avert disaster
Poorly implemented public infrastructure increased infant and under-5 mortality in Peru. Just Accepted paper by Antonella Bancalari
@BancalariA
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I am starting a new oil painting series to depict development issues. The first I just started is on our pink car study in Rio: teach men to respect women, don’t ask women to hide in pink cars.
@FKondylis
@AndradeLuizaC
@AMuiswinkel
@KateVyborny
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Women’s career advancement increases decision-making power in the household, the effect spills over to female staff who are exposed to the new female supervisors as role models. Read Hannah Uckat’s results from her work in Bangladesh
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More face-to-face interaction with managers, increases rate of promotion. The mechanism explains a third of the gender gap. 👇🏾
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Join us for Development Impact Week launching DIME's flagship report “Driving Revolutionary Ideas into Practice” 1-5 May 2023 at the World Bank HQ in Washington DC. Excited to host Nobel Prize Winner Esther Duflo and WB Chief Economist
@IndermitGill
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And that’s a wrap on
#DevImpactWeek
2023 🚀
Thank you to all of the wonderful speakers & participants for making this week both impactful and insightful 💡
Data & evidence can build capacity, increase functionality and save lives. Stay tuned for more!
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What's your take on "safe" space in transport to address violence against women? Here is what we
@FKondylis
@KateVyborny
@AMuiswinkel
@AndradeLuizaC
find:
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23 year later…deworming children reduced their children mortality by 22 percent
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I am so proud of my team
@PatrickPremand
,
@dahyeon_jeong
and so many others who devote their lives to reimagine our future. It is easy to predict doom. It is much harder to have the courage and creativity to envision and find ways for us to secure a brighter future.
It has been an exciting and busy year at VoxDev.
In the final blog of 2023, Managing Editor
@oliverhanney
recaps 2023 and looks to the future. Read here:
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We spent a wonderful week with our colleagues
@WFP
discussing impact evaluation evidence and understand how we can do better together. Cash is now 35% of WFP portfolio and growing.
@FKondylis
@MarcusHolmlund
@paulchristianWB
@IntDev_Impact
@simonelomb
great partnership!
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Digital transformation of govt services improves the efficiency & quality of public functions - with major downstream impacts on the economy.
Thank you
@BrakaMusiime
@ArturoHerrera_G
@gamblingondev
@cbronchi
@thiagoscot
& Dan Rogger for closing
#DevImpactWeek
with a bang!💥
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Stimulating discussion yesterday on how we can increase the uptake of agricultural tech in Sub-Saharan Africa social networks can be leveraged to boost adoption rates, enhance agricultural productivity and help mitigate the impact of climate change.🌾👩🌾
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Come and join a most exciting research team with great access to policy making in developing countries, climate folks a special shout out to you!
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We are kickstarting the 2024 DIME internship summer program. I welcome the 14 interns who will spend their summer at DIME– some based in DC and some abroad.
Enjoy the onboarding course on research field work, your research projects and “graduation” at the end of the summer.
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I will be kicking off the Reproducible Research Fundamentals course on September 30, 9-10AM with a in-person conversation with
@KraayAart
(Chief Economist, Prosperity,WB), Andrew Dabalen (Chief Economist, Africa, WB), and
@jochenkluve
(Director of Evaluation, KfW). Can we do even
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Join us tomorrow. We have an amazing lineup! Measuring Development 2024: AI, the Next Generation | Room I 2-220 | 9-5 PM (EDT)
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Announcing Africa LEADS a daring new program to double the impact of
#IDA
in Africa. Thank you
@VictoriaKwakwa
for the leadership and shared vision
@IndermitGill
@EdMountfield
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“Impact is our new measuring stick.” Ajay announces the end of business as usual. By integrating impact evaluation trial-and-adopt technology in our programs we will increase impact by fifty percent or more.
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Today was my son’s birthday. I painted this for him. It’s Crazy Story by King Von.
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Michael Kremer will join Africa LEADS with a seminal lecture on the returns to investing in knowledge and the opportunity to scaling up interventions that work, don’t miss it
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Exciting discussion in Rome on launching DEC Global Institute by
@IndermitGill
and
@bancaditalia
working with think tanks and research & policy networks to expand knowledge and research skills
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Tomorrow: innovations in measurement! Ninth edition
#MeasureDev2023
: Mitigating the Risks and Impacts of Climate Change! Keynotes by
@rglenner
, Tamma Carleton,
@hallegatte
. Opening by
@CEGA_UC
,
@DILatUChicago
and me.
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Course registration: from the four corners of the earth with a huge contingent from Africa.
Excited to kick off our Manage Successful
#FieldResearch
course tomorrow! We have an amazing 4600 registrations, surpassing last year's count by 1900! Can't wait to meet you all at the opening session!
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A new release of ietoolkit is now available on SSC! Type ssc
install ietoolkit in Stata to use the new features and go to
for more information (1/3)
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The amazing results of our Afghanistan TUP RCT study in a snapshot
@lupe_bedoya
and Aidan Coville
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Ready to make an impact in development?
Esther Duflo,
@IndermitGill
and myself will be talking about the biggest idea in development today to kick-start
#DevImpactWeek
(May 1-5) 🚀
Find out more ➡️
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Empowering women is key to economic growth. Yet, achieving equality in economic participation remains an aspiration rather than reality, as numerous systemic barriers persist:
Girija Borker & I delve into Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, and elsewhere for answers.
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Economics papers fail to report aspects of the experiments that are crucial for reproducibility. The author here proposes preproducibility: describe your experiment in adequate detail for others to undertake it. Economists should listen.
@UCBITSS
@tedmiguel
Our lack of a precise vocabulary contributes to the crisis of scientific reproducibility.
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A glimpse from yesterday's panel discussion
@Worldbank
with
@lupe_bedoya
@SMGSequeira
@ArlenGuarin
, Mickey Chopra, & Norbert Schady, delving into the crucial role of randomized controlled trials in optimizing health systems' resource usage when additional funding isn't available.
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Enjoyed my time at
@GAP_NU_
sharing my 20 years’ lessons in founding DIME to change how development research is done to have substantial impact on people’s lives
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Will be in Rome this week!Great collaboration with
@WFP
on impact evaluation of resilience, school feeding, cash transfers and humanitarian assistance
@FKondylis
@MarcusHolmlund
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I will introduce
#ImpactAI
— the power of large language models to extract insights from impact evaluation research— access to causal evidence for decision-making.
📅 18/09/2024, 2:00-4:00 pm CEST at DEval - German Institute for Dev. Evaluation
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Looking forward to launching our report 'Driving Revolutionary Ideas into Practice' w/ Economics Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo &
@IndermitGill
today.
Join us at 3pm ET to discuss how data, evidence & technology can boost the impact of development.
📽️➡️
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Resolution: decided to create a student portal to make available data and research questions for students interested in using their skills to make a difference in the world. Will keep you updated.
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I had the privilege of addressing 570 regional innovation policy and industry leaders in Germany about the World Bank's "trial and adopt" approach, which utilizes policy experiments to enhance policy impact.
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We had a great conversation today
@CGDev
with
@bardvegar
,
@glassmanamanda
,
@deankarlan
on the scale up of research and innovation to double the impact of development finance. This is a historical moment for placing knowledge at work to meet global challenges. More to come!
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Brazil planning ministry creating new secretariat of evaluation of public policies!
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Infrastructure - if done right - can be a powerful tool to manage the consequences of climate change.
Thank you to
@CeciliaScharp
,
@Idah_WB
,
@FKondylis
,
@AidanCoville
,
@krayberry
&
@SarojJha001
for the inspiring discussions on this 2nd day of
#DevImpactWeek
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How far have we come and so much more yet to do
@PatrickPremand
@FKondylis
@AidanCoville
@vincenzodimaro
@MarcusHolmlund
@WorldBank
@DaveEvansPhD
@markus_gold
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I'll host
#HFPA
-
@WorldBank
Global Forum on Experimental Evidence for Preventing Violence Against Women during
@UN
16 Days of Activism Against GBV Dec 8, 2022, 12-2 pm EST
@elianalaferrara
@victororozco
@helenHoene
@goldenglobes
@PoonamMuttreja
@annawilkens
Here some highlights
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Taking research into practice to scale. Now is the time.
Research into practice: Lessons from development impact evaluation.
Last week on
#VoxDevTalks
,
@alegovini
joined us to discuss founding & leading DIME
@WorldBank
, and outlined key lessons from her extensive work with policymakers in developing countries:
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Rigorous evidence & experimentation have completely transformed the way we should think & implement development.
@deankarlan
,
@MelonioThomas
&
@CharlotteHWatts
made this crystal clear today.
Thanks to Esther Duflo for bringing us together for this discussion!
#JPALat20
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The study aimed to help increase water and sanitation coverage. Here is how: 1. The World Bank helped the water company expand water service to poor slums in Nairobi.
Updated version of our ethics comment on NBER WP on Water Bills in Kenya -- more alert coauthor edits improved clarity. Apologies
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Excited to kick off our Manage Successful
#FieldResearch
course tomorrow! We have an amazing 4600 registrations, surpassing last year's count by 1900! Can't wait to meet you all at the opening session!
📢 Calling all field researchers! Join DIME's free, virtual course on Manage Successful
#FieldResearch
. Dive into the world of field research and elevate your skills!
Learn more here ➡️
Register by May 31st 11:59pm EDT ➡️
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To advance agricultural productivity, it's crucial to know how technology adoption can be increased. We should also be open to retiring outdated diffusion models in favor of newer and more effective ones.
#Agriculture
#Innovation
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Important call to action made at the
#TransformingEducation
Summit yesterday. It gave us 3 keys to unlock the power of digital learning: content, capacity and connectivity. Here are
#DIME
evidence-based proposals on how to best implement these:
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Researchers admit to Questionable (eg Wrong) Research Practices —they are pervasive across countries and fields 👇🏾
@lakens
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