Partners

Our work would not be possible without the close collaboration and dedication of many partners. Together we are driven by a shared belief in the power of scientific evidence to understand what really works in the fight against poverty.

We work closely with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a non-profit research organization with programs and offices around the world. Other partners are:

  • Implementing organizations like governments, NGOs, multilateral organizations, and businesses who run programs that our affiliated professors evaluate, use our policy lessons from research, and scale up programs that are proven effective.
  • Donors including foundations and bilateral organizations who provide funding for evaluations, scale-ups, and research initiatives.
  • Research centers and organizations that run the randomized evaluations of our affiliated professors, including the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago, Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) at Harvard Kennedy School, and IFMR Lead.

Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion

Established in 2008, the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion is housed in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Its mission is to support research on money and technology among the world's poorest people. The Institute seeks to create a community...

Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) promotes the development of new economic thinking to find solutions for the challenges of the 21st century through grants, conferences, research programs and partnerships.

Institute for Social and Environmental Research (ISER-Nepal)

ISER contributes high quality research, and policy advocacy in major social, environmental and development challenges facing Nepal. They have partnered with J-PAL to introduce modern sanitary products to girls in rural Nepal.

Institute for the Competitiveness and Productivity of Puebla (IPPC)

IPPC is an independent Mexican government agency founded in 2005 whose mission is to promote the growth and development of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS)

The Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) was established in 2006 with a vision to strengthen the economic and social foundation of democracy in Pakistan by producing rigorous quality research.

Institute of Education Sciences

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education. We are independent and non-partisan. Our mission is to provide scientific evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and to share this information in formats...

Institute of Empirical Research in Political Economy (IERPE)

The Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IERPE) is a non-profit, independent educational organization, dedicated to research in the evaluation of public policies. It is located at the École nationale d’économie appliquée et de management, a specialized school at the Université d...

Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control And Research is a Bangladesh government research institute, under the Ministry of Health, responsible for researching epidemiological and communicable disease in Bangladesh as well as disease control.

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a multidisciplinary research institute that focuses on themes such as physical geography and global change, human geography and regional development, natural resources and the environment, and...

Instituto de Estudios Peruanos

Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (the Institute for Peruvian Studies, IEP) is a private center specializing in high-quality research, teaching and dissemination of social studies in Peru and Latin America. Since is foundation, IEP has maintained its core mission to contribute to analysis and debate on...

Instituto República

Instituto República is an independent, non-partisan NGO aimed at enriching, training, and motivating people working with governments in Brazil.

Insurance Association of Malawi (IAM)

The Insurance Association of Malawi (IAM) is an umbrella body of all general insurance companies in Malawi and whose main responsibility is to self-regulate the industry in compliance with the requirements of the Registrar of Insurance and to draw up policy issues, ensuring that law and order...

Intendencia de Montevideo

Utilizing the results of Uruguay’s National Lottery, a natural experiment, researchers partnered with the municipal government in Montevideo to test the impact of winning a tax holiday on subsequent tax compliance.

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is a multilateral organization that supports economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDB has partnered with J-PAL on several projects.

Interactive Research and Development

IRD's goal is to improve the access and quality of health services delivered to under-resourced areas in both rural and urban communities. Its team leverages process and technology innovations to address global health delivery gaps through the use of game-changing health market innovations. Examples...

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

The IRS has collaborated with J-PAL affiliates in North America.

International Care Ministries

International Care Ministries (ICM) serves the ultrapoor in the Philippines. In partnership with community leaders from thousands of slum communities, ICM delivers programs that transform the lives of more than 100,000 destitute people each year.

International Development Research Center (IDRC)

IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

IFC provides investments and advisory services to build the private sector in developing countries and has worked with J-PAL studying corruption in the licensing process in India.

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. Founded in 1975, IFPRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium, a global research partnership for a food secure future.