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¿Pueden los programas de capacitación empresarial ayudar a que los microemprendedores rurales prosperen? Una nueva evaluación de Trafkintunkim, un programa de formación para emprendimientos rurales en el sur de Chile, muestra que los participantes mejoraron sus prácticas de negocio y los ingresos de...

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...

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.

In a series of 12 iterative A/B tests, researchers compared two versions of our tutoring program in Botswana to see which performed better. At the end of each test, results were compared and whichever version delivered the most impact for the least amount of money was generally adopted as the new...

Researchers in the J-PAL network have been using randomized evaluations to learn how to help people get jobs and how to help businesses grow for over two decades, drawing out insights to inform policies and programs from Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and beyond . Researchers have also started testing...

J-PAL Southeast Asia organized a research-to-policy showcase bringing together policymakers, researchers, civil society organizations (CSOs), development partners, and private sector to discuss innovations for strengthening the last-mile delivery of early childhood education and development (ECED)...

J-PAL North America hosted an in-person Research Staff Training (RST) in August 2025, welcoming 29 participants to a three-day course on randomized evaluations.

The world is facing an urgent foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) crisis, worsened by Covid. As organizations and governments around the world mobilize to address this crisis, J-PAL South Asia has been working since 2020 to scale Every Child Counts, a unique curriculum that builds on fifty...