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Spend Fossil-Fuel Subsidies on Pandemic Relief and the Poor

Many developing countries have long maintained fuel subsidies because they are politically impossible to abandon. But now that oil prices have reached historic lows, this problem has all but disappeared.

May 2020 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's May newsletter highlights Amy Finkelstein's new NEJM Perspective piece on improving health care delivery through randomized evaluations, J-PAL North America's new COVID-19 Evidence Portal, and the Evaluating Social Programs online webinar series.

Opportunities, challenges, and strategies for evidence production and use in the COVID era: 3ie’s expert panel weighs in

J-PAL Global Executive Director Iqbal Dhaliwal participated as a speaker on 3ie's expert panel on evidence in the time of COVID-19, part of 3ie's Virtual Evidence Weeks.

Averting Catastrophe

J-PAL co-founder Esther Duflo, along with Achim Steiner and Joseph E. Stiglitz discuss how developing countries can address the health and economic crises they face on the recent episode of CoronaNomics by Econ Films.

Coronavirus: Rich countries must fund 'Marshall Plan' for world's poorest countries, says Nobel-winning economist

J-PAL co-founder Esther Duflo on the recent episode of Econ Films' CoronaNomics: "we have the ability as a global community to avoid turning it into this catastrophe"

May 2020 Newsletter

Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken write about expanding social protection amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo probes effectiveness of virus warnings

Speaking to Econ Films' CoronaNomics program, J-PAL co-founder Esther Duflo called for a new Marshall plan to aid the southern hemisphere's economic recovery from the pandemic

Prejudices about online courses, but healthy to lose some of those: Abhijit Banerjee

With COVID-19 forcing educational institutions around the world to move to online classes, the Nobel laureate speaks to The Indian Express about why this shift is a “forced experience but a good one”.