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October 2024 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's October newsletter features an updated version of our Health Care Delivery Initiative Evidence Wrap-Up, a new video on our work with housing choice vouchers, and a blog on positionality statements in economics research.

Octubre 2024 Boletín Trimestral de J-PAL LAC

Este año, J-PAL Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC) celebra quince años utilizando evidencia para informar políticas y aliviar la pobreza en la región. Celebremos juntos y descubra las últimas novedades en investigaciones relevantes para políticas públicas, iniciativas, cursos, eventos, recursos y más.

Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation Partners With J-PAL South Asia on Clean Water Access for Millions in India Through Innovative, Scientifically-Proven Solutions

This collaboration, aims to ensure safe drinking water for all rural households by 2030, leveraging J-PAL’s evidence-based approach to tackle India’s growing water challenges.

Government of Karnataka partners with J-PAL South Asia to accelerate and scale policy innovations in school education

The Print
The Government of Karnataka has partnered with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to set up a “learning lab” to solve some of the biggest challenges in school education through science and data.

Nobel economics prize awarded for studies of prosperity gaps between countries

The Washington Post
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson examined how different kinds of European colonization led to some nations being rich and others poor.

Three Receive Nobel in Economics for Research on Global Inequality

The New York Times
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson shared the award for their work on explaining the gaps in prosperity between nations.

October 2024 J-PAL MENA Newsletter

As J-PAL MENA continues to expand its efforts in advancing evidence-based policymaking, we are excited to share highlights from our diverse initiatives over the past two quarters in this edition of our newsletter. ON THE HORIZON Takeaways from the recently hosted Jobs for Development Conference J...

How connecting firms to markets can promote economic development

VoxDev
Market access can improve firms’ performance. More research is needed to understand which type of market access programmes are the best at generating firm growth.