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Finding the indiscernible poor: Community knowledge as a targeting approach

Ideas for India
Varying estimates of poverty have often resulted in some deprived communities being excluded from government welfare schemes. Sabarwal and Chowdhry look at the case of Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana in Bihar, which uses the mechanisms recommended by BRAC’s Graduation Approach and harnesses community...

Young researchers pursue Nobel Prize-winning approach to alleviating poverty in Middle East and North Africa with support from new fellowship

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Middle East and North Africa at the American University in Cairo announced the first cohort of the MENA Scholars Fellowship following a highly competitive application process after the fellowship’s launch in November 2022. The MENA Scholars Fellowship will...

June 2023 Newsletter

Our June 2023 Newsletter features the first of J-PAL's 20 for 20:Partner Voices blog series, the latest evidence on microcredit, and an alumni of of J-PAL and MIT’s Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP) master’s program.

May 2023 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's May 2023 newsletter features a letter from Damon Jones, who will lead J-PAL North America’s new advisory committee in developing a strategic vision for prioritizing research that addresses racial equity, and two blog posts highlight research on racial equity by members of J-PAL...

MIT’s Flagship Project To Pilot In Bangladesh And Sudan

India Education Diary
An international project to build community resilience to the effects of climate change, launched by Community Jameel and a research team at MIT, has been recognized as an innovation sprint at the 2023 summit of the United States’ and United Arab Emirates’ Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate...

Uzbekistan's Experience in Global Fight Against Poverty Discussed at Int'l Forum in Tashkent

SEE News
Abhijit Banerjee spoke about the reforms aimed at combating poverty in Uzbekistan, focused on the tools used to create social programs, increasing the targeting of support for the poor, develop entrepreneurship, and understand the effectiveness of various programs adopted.

Bihar’s model of bicycles to girls replicated by six African countries, endorsed by UN

The Indian Express
Bihar government’s model of bicycles to girls was successfully replicated in seven African countries, including Zambia, and was also endorsed by United Nations as a tool for increasing enrollment in schools and empowering women.

The Health Costs Of Climate Hazards Are Piling Up

NRDC
This article discusses how missing health costs are receiving increasing attention from policymakers at the national and international levels. Members of the Senate Budget Committee recently heard experts offer first-hand accounts about the many ways climate change is already stealing people’s...