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2025 | AI for Social Good

J-PAL is at the forefront of AI for social good. We’re working with governments, tech companies, and researchers to move from “Can it work? ” to “Should we scale it?”
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Nobel Laureate and J-PAL Co-Founder Abhijit Banerjee Visits UAE and Qatar to Advance Evidence-Informed Policymaking

J-PAL at MIT announced today that Professor Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel laureate and J-PAL co-founder, visited the United Arab Emirates and Qatar for a series of high-level engagements with government leaders, philanthropists, academic institutions, and civil society organizations.
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Building Evidence Ecosystems in Governmental Digital Inclusion Initiatives through Training

The Egypt Impact Lab (EIL) is collaborating with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) for two rounds of training for MCIT officers on Government Digital Inclusion Initiatives. This training falls under the...
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2025 | Accelerating Climate Solutions

Communities with the fewest resources—and the least responsibility for global emissions—bear the brunt of climate change. Confronting this inequity is central to the mission of the King Climate Action Initiative.
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What recent findings from the Baby’s First Years study reveals about cash’s impact on family life of young children in the United States

Recent findings from the Baby's First Years study reveal mixed impacts: while cash support helped families and children in some narrow ways, it did not have broad effects across other aspects of family life. Several factors should be considered when interpreting these results.
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November 2025 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's November newsletter features a new blog post on interpreting results from the Baby's First Years study, a feature on our 2025 Research Staff Training, and our recent Evidence Matters Convening in Seattle, WA.
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Yvan Andriameva Assany

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Policy Associate - J-PAL Global

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Senior Policy Associate - J-PAL Global

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Empowering rural entrepreneurs in Chile: Insights from the Trafkintunkimun program evaluation

Can business training programs help rural microentrepreneurs thrive? A new evaluation of Trafkintunkimun, a rural entrepreneurship training program in southern Chile, finds that participants improved their business practices and household incomes. Gains were strongest for women and for entrepreneurs...
Representatives from the zakat management organization share about the existing economic empowerment programs they have implemented in Indonesia
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Supporting Indonesia's faith-based charitable funds, zakat, in tackling poverty through the Graduation approach

On October 8, J-PAL Southeast Asia hosted a workshop gathering several of Indonesia’s zakat management organizations (Organisasi Pengelola Zakat or OPZ) to explore how zakat, faith-based charitable funds, can further support poverty alleviation through the Graduation approach. In this blog we...
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Delegating Property Tax Collection to Local Elites in the DRC

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation during the 2018 property tax collection campaign to test the impact of delegating tax collection to local chiefs. Where local chiefs collected taxes, households were more tax compliant than where state collectors collected, mainly because chiefs had local knowledge about property owners and could better target collection to those more likely to pay.
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Senior Research Associate - PROSPER Programme

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AI for social good: Making AI work for health systems

AI has the potential to improve access to and quality of health care. However, evidence on the real-world impacts of AI solutions on providers and patients is scarce. Closing these evidence gaps is key to ensuring policymakers can responsibly scale AI that supports healthcare workers and patients.
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J-PAL Africa: Jobs and Entrepreneurship in Africa Portfolio

Africa will experience transformative population growth from approximately 1.4 billion today to 3.3 billion in 2075. Job creation and access to decent work pose immense challenges. Currently, 85 percent of employment in sub-Saharan Africa is informal, and 82 percent of tertiary educated young...