Security camera captured a shooting at a hamburger stand in Brazil on Sunday
Two armed men approached the eatery before one opened fire at a customer
Rafaela Dantas, who is six months pregnant, dove on top of her son to cover him
The shooter s accomplice can be seen on video taking two phone from her table
None of the customers at the outdoor restaurant were harmed
Sea freight on the China-Brazil route has soared and reached an unprecedented US$ 10,000 per TEU, according to importers and shipping companies operating in the port of Santos.
Some of our favorite development papers of 2020
Development Impact will now be on break over the next couple of weeks for the holidays, resuming in early January. As we have done previously (2018,2017), we will turn to the holidays with a gift to you of some of our favorite development papers that we came across this year. This year we thought we’d focus on papers related to impact evaluation or measurement produced by some of our colleagues at the World Bank.
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(Jules Gazeaud, Eric Mvukiyehe and Olivier Sterck): This paper is important for the debate of whether fostering more employment opportunities at home will deter migration, or whether it will help people overcome liquidity and risk constraints and instead enable more migration to take place. One of the challenges in identifying impacts on international migration is that it is usually such a rare event that it is hard to get enough action to see treatment effects. Here the authors use a sample of over 2,000