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Nasser Social Bank signs a memorandum of understanding with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Middle East and North Africa

Egypt Today
The Nasser Social Bank and J-PAL MENA signed a memorandum of understanding at the American University in Cairo to design and implement impact evaluations and advance evidence-informed decision making. Full article in Arabic.

J-PAL MENA Newsletter March 2021

Newsletter updates on evidence-informed policy making in the MENA region.

Poverty Pioneers

Philanthropy Age
Alison Fahey and Adam Osman from J-PAL MENA share their thoughts on the role of philanthropy in building a culture of evidence use. The interview with Philanthropy Age covers the motivation behind launching J-PAL, J-PAL's approach to generating and using evidence, as well as pathways from research...

New study: In Iraq, mixed-religion soccer teams helped build social cohesion, healed wounds after war

A new study, released today in Science, points to a way to help repair social ties and promote coexistence after war. New findings show that among persecuted Christians in post-ISIS Iraq, playing on soccer teams with Muslim players helped promote more open attitudes toward Muslims, but only Muslim...

MCA-Morocco Launches Project to Evaluate National Employment Policy

MCA
The initiative, dubbed “Lab Emploi,” aims to build national capacities for the assessment, development, and implementation of employment and labor market policies, based on reliable scientific evidence and data.

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...

How Nobel-Prize-winning research is tackling youth unemployment

Ahram Online

Los co-fundadores de J-PAL Abhijit Banerjee y Esther Duflo recibieron el Premio Nobel de Economía

Los co-fundadores del Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Abhijit Banerjee y Esther Duflo, y el profesor afiliado de J-PAL, Michael Kremer, recibieron el Premio en Ciencias Económicas en memoria de Alfred Nobel 2019. El premio fue otorgado “por su aproximación experimental al alivio de la...