Anubhab Gupta

TL;DR: Simulations using Monte Carlo methods reveal that cash aid to refugees creates significant positive income spillovers to host-country businesses and households, a finding relevant to development aid generally.

TL;DR: In this article, economic life in three Congolese refugee camps in Rwanda and the interactions between refugees and local host country economies within a 10-km radius around each camp were analyzed.

TL;DR: The economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on poor and vulnerable households living in rural areas of developing countries are not well understood due to a lack of detailed micro-survey data at the household level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the short run responses of poor rural households to India's demonetization in 2016 and estimated an economic loss of 15.5% over the two months post demonetisation and discussed a range of strategies that the households adopted to exchange their banned currency denominations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out a local economy-wide impact evaluation of productivity-enhancing technological change amongst small-scale cotton producers in Tanzania's Lake Zone, and found that demand constraints shift benefits from farmers to downstream processors, while limiting positive spillovers within local economies.