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India coronavirus: Videos by Nobel laureate help fight pandemic

In a video message recorded in early May, J-PAL co-founded Abhijit Banerjee exhorted millions of people living in India's villages to take precautions to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

July 2020 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's July newsletter highlights a new policy insight on increasing community college graduation rates with comprehensive support programs, the launch of the Economics Transformation Project, and a new research resource on collecting electronic signatures.

J-PAL Launches New Regional Research Center in Cairo at AUC to Help Improve Lives Across MENA Region

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), together with the American University in Cairo (AUC), Community Jameel, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has announced the launch of a new regional research center in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focused on alleviating...

Learners today, leaders tomorrow

MITx MicroMasters Program credential holders leverage MIT-caliber education to move their industries to the cutting edge.

J-PAL webinar series on program evaluation draws global audience

The five-day webinar series provided nearly 2,000 participants with an introduction to the design and use of randomized evaluations to test the effectiveness of social programs.

COVID-19: Augmenting farmer access to long-term credit

J-PAL South Asia Senior Policy Associate Tanya Kak discusses how failing to protect farmers amid the COVID-19 pandemic can worsen India’s agrarian distress.

Building Forward with Digital Agriculture

J-PAL affiliate and Nobel laureate Michael Kremer argues that increasing investment in technologies to help small-scale farmers will yield far-reaching benefits long after the COVID-19 pandemic has passed.

Q&A: How can India achieve universal electrification?

A study by J-PAL affiliate Nicholas Ryan and coauthors finds that it may be counterproductive to view access to electricity as a right, rather than as a good that must be paid for.