Moussa P. Blimpo

Assistant Professor of Economic Inequality and Societies @University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. African citizen of 🇹🇬.

[I4R @I4Replication]

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.

Here’s what we found 👇

[Policy Center for the New South @PolicyCenterNS]

🔴@mpblimpo, Assistant Professor at the @UofT, notes that electricity is a key enabler of productivity and growth, stressing the need to prioritize investments that support broad and sustainable use.

[Moussa P. Blimpo @mpblimpo]

May want to account for the differences in GDP rebasing too - I observed the same gaps in West Africa a couple of years back but it turned out it was largely driven by rebasing and the timing of rebasing. I am sure the gaps will remain but likely not that big.

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

(GDP ratios in last graph are fairly constant. So while the gaps between these countries are real, and big, divergence looks like mostly an exchange rate phenomenon.)

[Moussa P. Blimpo @mpblimpo]

Congratulations to @lwantchekon, a dedicated mentor and role model to so many of us.

[African School of Economics @ASE_Africa]

Irrespective of the circumstances, nothing can stop the one who is determined to rise.

Listen to Prof. @lwantchekon’s speech after receiving the Global Economy Prize 2023.

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Afrique Numérique: Transformation technologique pour l'emploi

https://t.co/5kpBrMmLCv

par Begazo, @mpblimpo, et Dutz

[World Bank Group Publications @WBGPubs]

NOUVEAU RAPPORT! Découvrez comment les entreprises africaines pourraient augmenter leur productivité 📈 grâce à l’usage des technologies numériques: https://t.co/3PPFFMCAyt

#Digital4All 📲
#FrenchLanguageDay

[Économique_UdeS @Econ_UdeS]

Aujourd’hui nous avons été ravi d’avoir accueilli @mpblimpo de la @munkschool qui nous a présenté son papier «Asymmetry in Civic Information: An Experiment on Tax Participation among Small and Informal Firms in Togo» https://t.co/z6xy24QPu3

[Clean Air Task Force @cleanaircatf]

CATF Senior Fellow and Assistant Professor at @munkschool, @mpblimpo: “The issue is we have two urgencies that are often analyzed separately: Development and Climate Change. Unless you bring them under the same roof there will be inherent contradictions.” #ZeroCarbonFuture #COP27

[Clean Air Task Force @cleanaircatf]

“Nearly two thirds of the intellectual scholarship on Africa’s energy future is produced by academics outside Africa.” — @mpblimpo #ZeroCarbonFuture #COP27

[Clean Air Task Force @cleanaircatf]

“The issue is we have two urgencies that are often analyzed separately: Development and Climate Change. Unless you bring them under the same roof, there will be inherent contradictions,” @mpblimpo said.

Watch the full video here: https://t.co/3bZAkfsTv7

[G2LM|LIC @GLMLIC]

Great @GLMLIC research session this afternoon with talks by @nkechi_owoo @selimgulesci @mpblimpo Girum Abebe and @florian_grosset @UCTGSB!
@FCDOGovUK #EconTwitter 1/2

[Agence Française de #Développement (AFD) 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 @AFD_France]

⏰Rejoignez notre session #AfricaKnowledgeFest à 17H30:
Rassembler les connaissances africaines: la collection "L’Afrique en développement" en perspective
👥Avec @gbalineau @mpblimpo @Woubet_K @AlbertZeufack @MelonioThomas
Live➡️https://t.co/EVgrGm7oNK
@BM_Afrique @Banquemondiale

[Issues in Science and Technology @ISSUESinST]

“Counting the number of households that gained some form of access to modern energy from one year to the next has become an end in itself,” writes @mpblimpo. It’s time to reimagine energy access as a means to economic growth and development. https://t.co/TaHZAtyovV

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

"Team Incentives for Education in Developing Countries: A Randomized Field Experiment in Benin" https://t.co/XYtKSAbmSF @MpBlimpo on student incentives for test performance #ThrowbackThursday

[Energy for Growth Hub @energyforgrowth]

How does energy fit in the broader development agenda?

@mpblimpo outlines what a collaborative pragmatic approach to solving energy problems can look like from his experiences at @WorldBankAfrica.

Listen to his #HighEnergyPlanet episode out now:
https://t.co/P5EJ3PZe4U

[Moussa P. Blimpo @mpblimpo]

Thanks @PeejLoewen for ur leadership. Great honor & looking forward to joining @munkschool amazing faculty and students. Grateful for the support from @DaveEvansPhD @lwantchekon @bill_easterly @carneiro_econ @WilsonPrichard @AlbertZeufack @cleanaircatf, @energyforgrowth & many.

[Peter Loewen @PeejLoewen]

I'm very pleased to announce that we will welcome two new colleagues next year at @munkschool after our search in economic inequality and society. @LauraGarciaMo (PhD @NorthwesternU) and Moussa Blimpo (PhD @nyuniversity) will join is in July 2022. We can’t wait for their arrival.

[NOVAFRICA @novafrica]

In this week’s @novafrica Sustainable Development Talks, @mpblimpo from @worldBank talks about firms and taxation in Togo.
#podcast
#tax
#EconTwitter
@NovaSBE
https://t.co/3StA1vaFwP

[William Easterly @bill_easterly]

My article just published -- Adam Smith's foundational theory of economic development led him to be a fierce critic of European conquest, slavery, and colonialism
https://t.co/NplTBntbsW

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

A teacher training program in Rwanda designed to complement a new entrepreneurship curriculum in secondary schools did not improve student test scores, although it did boost student participation in school business clubs. Published: https://t.co/hhzXVb2fcT
by @mpblimpo & Pugatch

[Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) @riseprogramme]

*NEW WP* Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda

✍️ Moussa P. Blimpo & Todd Pugatch

@WorldBank @OSU_SPP

https://t.co/T3K3CCkA3j

Watch a presentation of the paper here: https://t.co/mbIfJOBKux