Thanks for all of the clarifications / explanations. This definitely helps provide more context and understanding to the story of how this originated and is progressing.
“I would be really interested to hear what countries you think would have more mild productivity losses and in what ways they differ from India.”
Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Vietnam) is probably the ‘easiest’ place to work that is relevant to the interventions we often look at. Very strong internet, low costs, easy to travel, usually clean, and usually very high accessibility to high quality, safe, and tasty food. (Some of this likely applies to parts of Malaysia, Philippines, and Indonesia as well, but I’m not sure).
My (limited) experiences in East Africa had both positives and negatives in terms of productivity v. India. It was very difficult to find strong internet, but the ease of life, cleanliness, and quality of food (esp. Ethiopia) exceeded what I most often found in India.
Thanks for all of the clarifications / explanations. This definitely helps provide more context and understanding to the story of how this originated and is progressing.
“I would be really interested to hear what countries you think would have more mild productivity losses and in what ways they differ from India.”
Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Vietnam) is probably the ‘easiest’ place to work that is relevant to the interventions we often look at. Very strong internet, low costs, easy to travel, usually clean, and usually very high accessibility to high quality, safe, and tasty food. (Some of this likely applies to parts of Malaysia, Philippines, and Indonesia as well, but I’m not sure).
My (limited) experiences in East Africa had both positives and negatives in terms of productivity v. India. It was very difficult to find strong internet, but the ease of life, cleanliness, and quality of food (esp. Ethiopia) exceeded what I most often found in India.