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Gran parte de nuestros esfuerzos, resultados y logros son frecuentemente publicados en variados lugares del mundo en blogs, prensa escrita, podcasts y contenido en línea, entre otros.

Boletín J-PAL LAC Mayo 2025

J-PAL América Latina y el Caribe (LAC) trabaja para apoyar el uso de evidencia durante el camino a la COP30 en la Amazonía, participa en el lanzamiento de una nueva alianza global para la educación superior y promueve Comunidades de Práctica para intercambios entre profesionales de políticas...

BRAC International partners with J-PAL South Asia to build evidence and support the roll-out of Inclusive Livelihoods programs in India

BRAC International and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia at IFMR have entered into a partnership to enhance the research, monitoring and evaluation components of the Samaveshi Aajeevika Yojana (SAY) and Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY) - Urban programs.

Reducing emissions and air pollution from informal brick kilns: Evidence from Bangladesh

Science
In many low- and middle-income countries, it is commonly believed that weak state and regulatory capacities limit the ability to reduce pollution and mitigate climate impact. Researchers developed a low-cost intervention to improve the energy efficiency of zigzag kilns and conducted a randomized...

Tripura leads education reform with Saharsh Utsav, pioneering emotional learning

India Today
The Tripura government has taken a significant step towards education reform with the inaugural Saharsh Utsav at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhawan in Agartala. Inaugurating the event, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha emphasized the importance of emotional intelligence in education. He remarked,...

April 2025 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's April newsletter features recent work along J-PAL North America’s research lifecycle including newly funded projects and the launch of Economics Pathways, a pipeline program to empower the next generation of economists researching critical policy questions through training...

April 2025 MENA Bi-Annual Newsletter

Catch up on four months of updates from J-PAL MENA in the first quarter of 2025 — from launching HAPIE and building evidence ecosystems to marking five years of impact in the region.

Podcast | Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo on Poverty, Inequality, and Policy

The India Briefing
In this special episode of The India Briefing, Nobel Laureate and development economist Esther Duflo joins hosts Mukulika Banerjee and Pya Tiwari for a wide-ranging conversation on poverty, inequality, and evidence-based policymaking in India.

World’s first particulate matter trading scheme in Gujarat cut pollution by up to 30%, finds study

The Indian Express
The world’s first-ever market for trading in particulate matter emissions—launched in Gujarat’s Surat in 2019 through partnerships with the University of Chicago, Yale University, and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)—has reduced pollution by 20-30% among participating industries...