The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 1,000 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 1,000 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.
Our affiliated professors are based at over 120 universities and conduct randomized evaluations around the world to design, evaluate, and improve programs and policies aimed at reducing poverty. They set their own research agendas, raise funds to support their evaluations, and work with J-PAL staff on research, policy outreach, and training.
Our research, policy, and training work is fundamentally better when it is informed by a broad range of perspectives.
Survey Coordinator, J-PAL South Asia
Shashikant Tiwari is a Survey Coordinator at J-PAL South Asia based out of Jaipur, Rajasthan. He is currently working with the multiple Project in Rajasthan, Hariyana,UP ,MP and north east , where he primarily handles recruitment, training, and field operations. He has an MBA in Human Resource Management from Sikkim Manipal University. He joined IFMR in 2010 for a study with the Centre for Microfinance (CMF) in Lucknow. He has worked with CMF on several studies including their Social Objectives project in Faizabad, Utter Pradesh. He has also completed the endline survey for the Double Fortified Salt (DFS) Project in Bihar. Prior to joining IFMR (CMF) he worked for Bhartiya Microcredit (Microfinance) as an Assistant Branch Manager in Lucknow. There he disbursed microloans to Self-Help Groups (SHGs) of poor women in rural and urban areas.