Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Abhijit Banerjee's column on food and economics, in The Times of India

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  Abhijit Banerjee writes a monthly column on food (cooking it and eating it) and economics , in The Times of India You can see them all a...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Kidney and liver exchange in India

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 Here's an update from Dr. Vivek Kute and his colleagues on kidney and liver exchange in India. Kute, V. B., Patel, H. V., Banerjee, S.,...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

One Nation One Swap: National kidney exchange in India

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 In India, the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) wrote this week to all the State organizations (the SOTTOs) announc...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Kidney transplant black market in Myanmar

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 BBC Burma has the story (I guess they haven't updated their country name...no doubt they still refer to the Gulf of Mexico, too:)  The ...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Cheating on exams in India , and exam design suggestions from Spain

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 India, where government jobs are allocated based on scores on a variety of national exams, cheating is a big business. One form it takes is...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

More on non-anonymous kidney exchange in India

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 Here's some further description of how kidney exchange is conducted in India without authorization* to use nondirected donors (so that ...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Blood donation by family members in India: LGBT donors still banned

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 In India, where the shortage of blood supplies is addressed by having family members donate, the ban on donation by LGBT people is a seriou...
Monday, April 15, 2024

Expanding kidney exchange in India

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 The Ahmedabad Mirror reports on the success of kidney exchange at the Trivedi Institute in that City, and on discussions underway to build ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.

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  Stanford Impact Labs has announced an investment designed to help the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) i ncrease access to kidne...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Cash for kidneys report in the Telegraph

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 The Telegraph has this story, by Samuel Lovett, Nandi Theint,  and Nicola Smith. For some reason I can't copy the headline, but the URL...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

"Professional blood donors" in India (where paying blood donors is illegal)

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  India allows only unpaid blood donation, from altruistic donors or from "replacement donors" who are friends or relations of par...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Organ transplantation in China: in transition--and controversy about paying funeral costs

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  I recently spoke at the CAST transplant conference in Hong Kong (see picture ), and the underlying theme of my talk, and of many talks the...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Kidney Paired Donation in Developing Countries: a Global Perspective

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 Vivek Kute and his colleagues argue that one of the lessons from the developing world is that kidney exchange can save many lives, but may ...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Affirmative action in India

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  Here's an interesting paper by Orhan  Aygün and Bertan Turhan . It comes with something of a backstory, which accounts for its quite d...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

An upside to dowries, by Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, Corinne Low & Alessandra Voena

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  Dowries (like bride prices*) are often criticized, but may have indirect effects that aren't so easy to see, as in this recent NBER pa...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Is an End to Child Marriage within Reach? Not yet... Unicef report, and Lancet summary

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  Unicef has issued the following report focused on the continued prevalence of child marriage, particularly in the poorest communities: Is ...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

NPR on black markets for kidneys from Nepal, for India

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Here's an 8-minute video from National Public Radio about the black market for kidneys, trafficked from Nepal to India.  Some of the peo...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Affirmative action in India--a market design perspective, by Ashutosh Thakur, Orhan Aygün, Bertan Turhan, and M. Bumin Yenmez

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  The policy portal Ideas for India has an e-symposium on recent developments in affirmative action in India, with an informative introduct...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Paired liver exchange in India

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 Here's a report on 2-way liver exchanges conducted at Max Center for Liver and Biliary Sciences, Max Saket Hospital, New Delhi, India, ...