Marijo Silva-Vargas
Development economics and public policy researcher at J-PAL Europe & LISER
Photographer of social stories vogue.com/photovogue/photogra…
Science comms with visual stories
Bolivian & naturalised-Italian
- Photographing stories in research & development has always been, for me, an act of change & resistance. In the first edition of Reframe Development, I share reflections incl. the #WorldBank development impact photo & a Bolivian girl charging 2 bs for photo consent. Link below! /1
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- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasA Peruvian farmer has lost a landmark climate case against German energy giant RWE. Saul Luciano Lliuya had argued the company should help fund flood defenses near his Andean home, citing its role in global warming.
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-Vargas🆕 Development Dialogues: Are vocational training programmes effective? 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Stefano Caria (University of Warwick) & Munshi Sulaiman (BIGD) examine the real impact of vocational training programmes in developing countries: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
- How can RCTs help development organizations make better decisions? With @liser.lu and @j-paleurope.bsky.social , we tried to break it down in just 4 minutes Plus, we walk through a real-world example: a vocational skills training program 🛠️🎓 Check it out 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqM2...
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasIn today's blog, I summarize 7-7.5 year impacts of a RCT we did in Togo that tested personal initiative (PI) training against a control and traditional business training. PI training has large and growing impacts for men, which diverge from those for women 1/3 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasOn American aid cuts/disruptions: www.africanistperspective.com/p/american-a...
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-Vargas📸 We are proud that one of the pictures from our photo documentary project, Yhdessä (Together), was selected for a Foto Futuro Lab online exhibition: www.fotofuturolab.com/visions-of-2... Check out the full project here: www.povertyactionlab.org/yhdessa-toge... @marijo-silva-v.bsky.social
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasWhile Bolivia has huge lithium resources, it has produced very little so far. This data comes from the United States Geological Survey. (This Daily Data Insight was written by @hannahritchie.bsky.social and @pablorosado.com.)
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasThe world’s lithium is mined in just a handful of countries
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasSharing the latest article on @voxdev.bsky.social by my brilliant colleague and mentor at @wfueconomics.bsky.social & @wakeforest.bsky.social Leah Lakdwala. Check it out! 📚🔥
- My first post is a shot that combines some of my obsessions: dogs, working in cool places like Egypt, and shooting with a Rolleiflex from the ’50s - which always makes me feel like an old-fashioned explorer (though I keep burning shots in the airport scanners!!!) #film #photography
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasA paper in which we learn that pollution is about twice as bad for the economy as we previously thought, once you account for skilled workers' differentially larger emigration responses to avoid escalating pollution. egc.yale.edu/research/how...
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasEstamos experimentando con publicar algunas gráficas de OWID en español. Por ahora iniciamos con esta cuenta de instagram: www.instagram.com/ourworldinda... La gráfica de hoy: distancia de ingresos entre el 10% más rico y el 10% más pobre (después de impuestos)
- Reposted by Marijo Silva-VargasMy new, very brief article is about economic growth — highlighting nine countries in Africa where incomes have more than doubled since 1990.
