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Kodjo Aflagah
Kodjo Aflagah is a Postdoctoral Associate at J-PAL-Africa, where he works with TaRL Africa and DigiFI. With TaRL Africa, he works to develop innovations in mentoring, monitoring, and teaching.
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The Doctors for Coronavirus Prevention Project
As the US experiences an uptick in COVID-19 cases during the holiday season, can widespread public health messaging via social media make an impact on reported post-holiday cases?
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Thomas Vargas
Thomas joined J-PAL in June 2012 and works on a variety of projects related to J-PAL's policy and training areas. He holds a degree in International Politics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a Master of Public Policy degree with a concentration in International Development...
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Motivating new education research and scale for COVID-19 recovery
J-PAL is launching a one-time Education Research and Scale for COVID-19 Recovery innovation competition to fund randomized evaluations and scale-ups of strategies to improve access, quality, equity, and relevance of pre-primary, primary, and post-primary education in response to the ongoing COVID...
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Moving towards targeted anti-poverty programs: lessons from Indonesia
For the past decade in Indonesia, J-PAL affiliated researchers, together with government agencies and J-PAL Southeast Asia, have been working to generate policy-relevant evidence using randomized evaluations to understand the causal impact of anti-poverty programs. This blog summarizes what we have...
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Ghina Nurqori Aina
Ghina Nurqori Aina is a Senior Finance and Operations Associate at J-PAL Southeast Asia.
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Key issues and challenges for advancing inclusive digital financial services in Indonesia
How can technological innovations in digital finance help accelerate progress? This blog recaps an October webinar hosted by J-PAL SEA's Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative (IFII), which provided an overview of the financial inclusion and digital finance services sector in Indonesia and...
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H.Y. Gowramma
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Toward evidence-informed climate policy: A reflection on Earth Day 2020
This Earth Day, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the connections between our health and well-being and that of the planet are more present than ever. COVID-19 and climate change share the dubious distinction of taking the greatest toll on the world’s most vulnerable.
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Policy Insights in Finance
J-PAL’s Finance sector seeks to understand how access to financial services can reduce poverty and spur economic development by helping households smooth consumption, make investments, and manage risk. Our policy insights below summarize general lessons from randomized evaluations on increasing...
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Policy Insights in Gender
J-PAL’s Gender sector focuses on reducing gender inequality, promoting women and girls’ empowerment, and understanding how social norms related to gender affect the outcomes of development programs. Our policy insights summarize the general lessons emerging from randomized evaluations on the impact...
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Ajay Desai
Ajay Desai is a Software Developer at IFMR where he assists the Data Analytics Manager on creating and managing guidelines for the data management practices of J-PAL SA. Prior to joining IFMR in 2014 he worked at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor for one and a...
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Michael Eddy, J-PAL ‘10, on using evidence to support high-impact organizations
We caught up with Michael Eddy, formerly of the research teams at J-PAL South Asia and J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). After an exciting early career in results-based financing and social impact investing, Michael now advises major foundations, aid organizations, and social enterprises...