Ajita Singh

PhD & MPA @Columbia | UPenn | UN | Development Economics

[Esther Agbarakwe @estherclimate]

UN Secretary-General Launches Global Grids Accelerator to Power Growth and Clean Energy in Africa and South-East Asia https://t.co/oDveOFww7D @SEforALLorg

[Kristen Saloomey @KSaloomey]

It was great to host this event and talk to UNDP Administrator @ASteiner about worrying trends in global development, including distrust of democratic institutions in a year when almost half the worlds population, 60+ countries, have elections!!

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The UN’s Human Development Index, a measure of global standards of living, fell in 2020 for the first time since its launch in 1990. It fell again in 2021. Although the index is now rising, these charts show that progress has been slow and uneven https://t.co/aXjgrXuCSM 👇

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

UNDP's new Human Development Report #HDR2024 finds that uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality and stoking political polarization globally

https://t.co/lY022PDLlE

[Achim Steiner @ASteiner]

🙏 all @UN ambassadors joining us for the launch of @UNDP's #HDR2024.

Our problems are intertwined, requiring equally interconnected solutions.

Building a 21st-century architecture for 🌐 public goods is critical to break through the current deadlock.

⏩https://t.co/3zjy4nzfYw

[Sima Bahous @unwomenchief]

Gender equality isn't just a lofty ideal.

It is the cornerstone of a just, sustainable & democratic future, and we need it now more than ever.

My message at the launch of the @UNDP Human Development Report.

With thanks to my friend and colleague, @ASteiner.

#HDR2024 #CSW68

[U.S. Army Reserve @USArmyReserve]

Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment of Military Intelligence Readiness Command held their change of command ceremony last week. Maj. Justin Pelletier relinquished command to Capt. Alex Singh. ⬇️

https://t.co/dG0aSByhHG

[Columbia University @Columbia]

As another refugee crisis unfolds in Ukraine, some may seek lessons from earlier refugee crises to best provide humanitarian aid. New research from the Syrian refugee crisis provides such lessons. @ColumbiaSIG @ColumbiaSSW
https://t.co/7mrk0bEPJF

[Social Intervention Group @ColumbiaSIG]

Two new pubs 🔖study 1) Role of financial dependence on violence (#IPV) + #Syrian women & 2) Secondary traumatic stress of service providers in the Syrian #refugee crisis. 1st authors @As4725Singh & @MohamadBrooks share implications for all refugees:
https://t.co/nAJxlgGxwS

[Seema Jayachandran @seema_econ]

This is fun - my Annual Review of Econ article from 2015 was one of the top 10 downloaded articles last year across the Annual Reviews. https://t.co/2PHt1EbGkM

(though it changes things a bit to see that "Weird Animals, Sex, and Genome Evolution" was in the top spot.)