Responding to COVID-19 in the Developing World
Advice that can seem grounded in “universal” human tendencies often isn’t. The actions that developing countries take will have to be carefully tailored to their specific circumstances.
Saugato Datta is a managing director at ideas42, where he works to design, test, and scale applications of behavioral economics to benefit low-income people in developing countries in domains ranging from the design of social protection programs to governance and financial inclusion. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the past, he worked as an economics correspondent for The Economist and as a researcher at the World Bank.
Advice that can seem grounded in “universal” human tendencies often isn’t. The actions that developing countries take will have to be carefully tailored to their specific circumstances.