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What if the cure for people not having money was just giving them money, no strings attached? The argument for this idea is people know their own situation best. They can decide if they need a cow or training or a school. They just need some money.

Research on gender was made into a play, and the perils of poor air quality were expressed through mundane objects.

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala highlights the introductory training course on the use and application of evidence taught by J-PAL LAC in Guatemala in December 2023. The course was part of PROSA disseminating activities. PROSA is the first program launched by the alliance between J-PAL and UVG...

The Instituto de Economía UC highlights the graduation ceremony of the seventh cohort of the Diploma in Impact Evaluation of Public Programs and Policies that we organized together. Forty-one students from ten Latin American countries and one European country are now part of a vibrant network of...

Over-promising and under-delivering is of course one of the occupational hazards of my world, where the latest innovations in development thinking are subjected to the occasionally brutal test of evidence. The latest on the docket is Universal Basic Income (UBI).

The Gujarat government on Tuesday announced that Ahmedabad has become the second city in the country to implement an emission trading scheme (ETS) for particulate pollution that will help in regulating industrial emissions and reduce the state’s pollution levels.

Since 2018 the American charity GiveDirectly has been sending the equivalent of $22.50 a month to thousands of villagers in western Kenya.

The first results are in from a charity experiment in Kenya. Those who got a lump sum of money were far more likely to start a business—and earn more—compared to those who got monthly payments.