Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a nonprofit organization that creates and evaluates solutions to social and development problems,and works to scale up successful ideas through implementation and dissemination to policymakers, practitioners, investors, and donors.
Evaluations
- An Impact Evaluation of Microcredit in Rural Areas of Morocco
- Balancing Health Benefits and Risks of ACT Subsidies for Africa
- Barriers to Fertilizer Use: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
- Bolstering Demand for Improved Sanitation in Bangladesh
- Business Education for Microcredit Clients in Peru
- CARES Commitment Savings for Smoking Cessation in the Philippines
- Challenges in Banking the Poor in Rural Kenya
- Cleaning Springs in Kenya
- Commitment Savings Products in the Philippines
- Conditional Cash Transfers for Education in Morocco
- Constraints to Saving for Health Expenditures in Kenya
- Contract Structure and Export Quality in Sierra Leone's Cocoa Market
- Credit, Change, and Lost Sales: A Field Experiment Among Firms in Kenya
- Decentralization: A Cautionary Tale - Public Finance in Kenya
- Demand for Rainwater Harvesting Devices in Uganda
- Deposit Collectors in the Philippines
- Effect of Media on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions in the United States
- Emergency Savings Accounts for Remittance Receivers in Mexico
- Empowering Girls in Rural Bangladesh
- Encouraging Adoption of Rainwater Harvesting Tanks Through Collateralized Loans in Kenya
- Estimating the Impact on the Lender's Bottom Line and Borrowers' Household Welfare of Expanding the Supply of Consumer Credit to the Working Poor in South Africa
- Evaluating an Epicenter Scale-Up Strategy in Ghana
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Online Sexual Education Modules in Colombia
- Evaluating the Efficacy of School Based Financial Education Programs with Children in Ghana
- Evaluating the Saving for Change Program in Mali
- Evaluating the Social and Economic Impact of Microcredit on Individual Borrowers and their Communities
- Evaluating Village Savings and Loan Associations in Ghana
- Evaluating Village Savings and Loan Associations in Uganda
- Evaluating Village Savings and Loans Associations in Malawi
- Examining the Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana
- Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture: Returns to Capital and Insurance Among Farmers in Ghana
- Expanding Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile, Malawi, the Philippines, and Uganda
- Financial Literacy and the Demand for Index Insurance in Kenya
- Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
- Flipcharts, School Inputs & Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses in Kenya
- Free Distribution or Cost Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment in Kenya
- Governance for the Management of Local Public Goods in Kenya
- Graduating the Poorest Into Microfinance: Linking with Financial Services on the Model of BRAC’s TUP in Pakistan
- Group versus Individual Lending in Peru
- Group versus Individual Liability in the Philippines
- Health Education for Microcredit Clients in Peru
- HIV/AIDS Prevention Through Relative Risk Information for Teenage Girls in Kenya
- Household Water Connections in Tangier, Morocco
- Identifying Information Asymmetries in a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa
- Impact of Malaria Education on the Health of Microfinance Clients
- Impact of Microcredit for Women in Mexico
- Impact of UNICEF's Communication for Development (C4D) Program in Ghana
- Impact of Voter Knowledge Initiatives in Sierra Leone
- Impact of Youth Entrepreneurship in Uganda
- Improving Numeracy Instruction for Young Children in Peru
- Incentives to Learn: A Merit-Based Girls' Scholarship Program in Kenya
- Influences on Investments in Preventative Health Products in Kenya
- Information Campaign to Reduce Plastic Bag Consumption in Supermarkets in Mexico
- Information Dissemination Campaign and Voters' Behavior in the 2009 Municipal Elections in Mexico
- Informative vs. Persuasive Advertising of Savings Products in the Philippines
- Interest Rate Sensitivity Among Village Banking Clients in Mexico
- Interest Rates, Loan Maturity and Demand for Microfinance Loans in South Africa
- Introducing Financial Services to Newly Monetized Amazonian Communities
- Job Networks and Gender in Malawi
- Limited Insurance Within the Household in Kenya
- Marketing Effects in a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa (Pricing the Effect of Psychological "Features")
- Measuring the Impact of Microcredit in the Philippines
- Mentoring Small and Medium Micro-enterprises in Puebla, Mexico
- MicroSavings in Ugandan Primary Schools
- Peer Effects, Pupil-Teacher Ratios, and Teacher Incentives in Kenya
- Preventing HIV and Teen Pregnancy in Kenya: The Roles of Teacher Training and Education Subsidies
- Price Sensitivity and Usage of Formal Transportation in Rural Malawi
- Primary School Deworming in Kenya
- Project Generasi: Conditional Community Block Grants in Indonesia
- Promoting Adoption of New Rice Varieties: Addressing the Costs of Early Adoption in Sierra Leone
- Promoting Agricultural Technology Adoption in Rwanda
- Promoting Sustainable Farming Practices in Malawi
- Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Advice via SMS in Uganda
- Recycling Program Take-up and Participation in Northern Peru
- Returns to Medium and Small Enterprise Management Consulting in Ghana
- Savings Account Labeling in Ghana
- Savings Accounts for Village Micro-Entrepreneurs in Kenya
- Small Individual Loans and Mental Health in South Africa
- Source Dispensers and Home Delivery of Chlorine in Kenya
- Spousal Cosigning Requirements as a Barrier to Female Access to Credit in Peru
- Targeting the Ultra-Poor in Ethiopia
- Targeting the Ultra-Poor in Ghana
- Targeting the Ultra-Poor in Honduras
- Targeting the Ultra-Poor in Peru
- Targeting the Ultra-Poor in Yemen
- Teacher Incentives Based on Students' Test Scores in Kenya
- Teaching Savings Practices to Ugandan Youth
- Technical Vocational Education Training in Mongolia
- Testing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Enhance Conservation in Uganda
- Text Message Loan Repayment Reminders for Micro-Borrowers in the Philippines
- Text Message Reminders and Incentives to Save in Bolivia
- Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya
- The Community Knowledge Worker Program, a Channel for Information in Rural Uganda
- The Effect of Gender-Equity Programs on Maternal and Child Health in Uganda
- The Illusion of Sustainability: Comparing Free Provision of Deworming Drugs and Other "Sustainable" Approaches in Kenya
- The Impact of Credit-Scoring on Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Lending and Performance in the Philippines
- The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's Education in Kenya
- The Impact of Enhanced Business Training for High-Potential Entrepreneurs in Colombia
- The Impact of Entrepreneurship Training for Women in Uganda
- The Impact of Teaching Girls Negotiation Skills on Health and Educational Outcomes in Zambia
- The Impact of the Alatona Irrigation Project in Mali
- The Impact of Training and Access to Capital for High-Potential Entrepreneurs in Colombia
- The Impact of VCT and Condom Distribution as HIV Prevention Strategies Among Youth in Kenya
- The Psychology of Debt: An Experiment in India and the Philippines
- The Rockefeller Effect: Looking at Organizations of the Disadvantaged in Kenya
- The Role of Exposure, Social Networks and Marketing Messages in Households' Willingness to Pay for Malaria Prevention in Kenya
- Understanding Why Mothers Spend More on Children than Fathers in Low-Income Countries
- Urban Property Rights in Mongolia
- Using Alarm Boxes to Combine Commitment and Reminders for Savings in Bolivia
- Using Encouragement to Overcome Psychological Barriers to Saving in Peru
- Using Mobile Money as Trade Credit in Kenya
- Using Peer Referrals as a Loan Screening or Enforcement Mechanism in South Africa
- Using Radio and Video as a Means for Financial Education in Peru
- Valuing Trust in Shantytowns in Peru
- Weather Risk, Index Insurance, and Agricultural Technology Adoption in Western Kenya
- Willingness and Ability to Pay for the Kosim Clean Water Filter in Ghana
- Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of Child Health Gains