Girija Borker
@g_borker
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Economist at DIME World Bank. Working on Development, Gender, Education and Transport.
Washington, DC
Joined July 2015
RT @jenniferdoleac: Y’all, I wrote a book!. The Science of Second Chances is based on my decades of work studying crime and criminal behavi….
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RT @sugatchaturvedi: 🚨Happy to share our #OpenAccess publication with @kanmahajan & Zahra Siddique in Labour Economics! We analyze gendered….
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RT @marome1: Watch out for the rising star: @dev_a_patel. Glad to be able to say I knew him before he was famous. An outstanding and kind e….
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Very interesting paper on longer school days and divorce rates, in part because of increased female labor force participation rates.
Check out our new publication with Cecilia Peluffo and @ViollazMariana on the effects of extending the school day on divorce! The availability of full time schools ⬆️ divorce, especially in areas with non traditional social norms.
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RT @elianalaferrara: Passionate about development research? I am hiring a pre-doc to work on social norms, media and inter-group dynamics.….
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RT @vox_dev: On the 2nd day of 16-Days of Activism against GBV, today's article explores how increasing police presence and visibility can….
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Deploying frequent and unpredictable visible police patrols in the streets of Hyderabad, India, led to a 27% drop in severe harassment cases. Such data-driven public safety interventions can improve...
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RT @abhishekecon: 📢 We're hiring! Insignia Policy Research seeks a Research Associate to work on macro-fiscal projects. Must have MA in Eco….
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India 2047: One nation where heterogeneity is respected and valued, where everyone enjoys equal access to opportunity, a land full of freedom to make individual choice.
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At the 26th DS Borker Memorial Lecture on ‘My Vision of India: 2047’ by Prof. Nivedita Menon, introduction by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, Chaired by Prof. Uma Chakravarti. A feminist vision of 100-year-old free India by an all women panel.
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RT @jenniferdoleac: Know an early-career researcher studying crime/CJ policy in the US? If they have an ongoing causal research project, pl….
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It breaks my heart to see that all the amazing work that has since been done on women’s safety made no difference to the life of this woman, this amazing, brave doctor who was going to dedicate her life serving others.
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To make it easy to understand how the lack of safety is so very costly and that the responsibility to make women feel safe does not just lie with them or their families.
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I started working on women’s safety in 2016 to try to make a difference to this narrative, to make policy makers understand that women’s safety is a basic human right that is important not just for them but for the entire economy.
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12 years have passed at nothing has changed about the narrative. All of the onus rests on women to stay safe, to have the basic right to move around, to work, to live freely.
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I was in India when the Nirbhaya rape hit the news and I saw my father standing in front of the television with his eyes welled up, looking at me as I entered the room with fear and disbelief. I am back in India at a time when a young doctor has been raped at her workplace.
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Latest Let’s Talk Development Blog by @alegovini and me calls for multifaceted interventions that can help address several barriers that women face *together* so that women can make the choices they truly deserve.
Empowering women is key to economic growth. Our latest impact evaluation examines how targeted interventions can break down barriers to women's economic inclusion 🔎
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RT @_alice_evans: Tanzania scores highly for gender equality on conventional indicators. 80% of women are in the labour force.37% of parlia….
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So excited to present the work in Dar es Salaam for the first time on understanding the extent of harassment in public spaces.
The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, July 11, at 1pm ET. @g_borker will present: "Measuring and Addressing Gender Based Violence in Public Transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania" . More info:
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