Yashodhan Ghorpade

Economist @WorldBank - Social Protection & Migration, EAsia & Pacific. PhD @sussexecon @IDS_UK Microecon. of Conflict. Tennis & Art. Views Personal. 🌈

[Yashodhan Ghorpade @yashodunn]

🚨 📄Published 🎠

Our paper on the effect of conflict on occupational downgrading among potential migrants in Myanmar, now published in the WBER.

Full paper at: https://t.co/A2TtOvC4DC

Joint work with @saadimtiaz

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@bainjal Also Dr. Harsh Vardhan as health minister, during COVID. People seem to have forgotten that too.

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@hind_k_ali @Wesamqaid My deepest condolences, Hind

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@faizahsulimani @Wesamqaid My deepest condolences to you, Faizah

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I’ve always wondered why people like him choose to stay on in places and jobs that pose such credible dangers. “Commitment” doesn’t even begin to describe why.

I found an answer in Wesam’s pinned tweet.

Rest in peace, my friend. We will miss you. 🇾🇪

[Wesam Qaid @Wesamqaid]

I always get asked why I stayed in #Yemen

When the Yemen conflict started most of my friends and family left the country. When I meet people like Azeeza I know I made the right decision to stay. I feel so blessed and honoured to have contributed a little in making a difference. https://t.co/8e7NJhulNt

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In some horrific, and tragic news from Yemen today, I learned that my friend and former World Bank counterpart at the Yemen Social Fund for Development, @Wesamqaid was abducted and later found dead in Aden.

[Wesam Qaid @Wesamqaid]

I always get asked why I stayed in #Yemen

When the Yemen conflict started most of my friends and family left the country. When I meet people like Azeeza I know I made the right decision to stay. I feel so blessed and honoured to have contributed a little in making a difference. https://t.co/8e7NJhulNt

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On a personal level, I always found Wesam kind, encouraging, and curious, never shy to engage the big questions, and never one to give up in the face of the biggest challenges.

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🚨 📄Published 🎠

Our paper on the effect of conflict on occupational downgrading among potential migrants in Myanmar, now published in the WBER.

Full paper at: https://t.co/A2TtOvC4DC

Joint work with @saadimtiaz

[Yashodhan Ghorpade @yashodunn]

7/7
• If research ethics evolve over time and some practices are deemed inappropriate, is it still ok to keep using such data?

Keen to hear what you think.

link to fuller instrument: https://t.co/LibLcMIExi

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🧵 1/n
I recently came across a paper linking (adolescent) “attractiveness” to sexual violence perpetration. It led me down a path I didn’t expect.

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6/n
• Are there other, better ways of assessing a conventional sense of attractiveness that don’t impose an adult’s (sexualised?) gaze on minors? Can photos be used to have other, distantly located adolescents assess such “attractiveness” based on their own (peer) standards?

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@mayara_pfs @iedarm @rodmclara This is fantastic!

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New report with @saadimtiaz & Theingie Han.

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What happens when aspirations outpace opportunity? 🇲🇲📊
Our new report shows Myanmar’s high-skilled youth aiming high despite declining job prospects, underemployment. Nearly half are considering migration. The real risk: losing a generation’s potential.

https://t.co/moyt3Rz8Me

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@UsmanAl30087480 @ShekharGupta Somewhat later "neck and neck" when using GDP per capita at constant prices, but acceleration since the 2000s unmissable. Also visible catch-up and overtaking in labour productivity.