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One of the most critical health care needs in developing countries such as India is access to diagnostic tools.“They are not doing enough tests,” says Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics and director of MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J...

A new machine learning tool for forecasting incidents of acute child malnutrition will support Kenya’s national drought early warning system for the first time, Community Jameel and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) announced today in Lyon, France. The machine learning tool was...

Hosted on March 26-27 by the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy (CS3) at the Samberg Conference Center on the MIT campus, the 48th MIT Global Change Forum drew attendees from industry, academia, government and NGOs. Claire Walsh, Director of Policy and Communications at the MIT-based...

As governments and funders invest in AI for development, a question remains: what delivers impact? In this episode of Global Progress in the AI Era, J-PAL's Global Executive Director, Iqbal Dhaliwal explain that funding evidence will determine if AI improves lives.

Em entrevista exclusiva para a CNN, a francesa Esther Duflo, vencedora do prêmio Nobel de economia em 2019, comentou o cenário de incerteza geopolítica global que o mundo enfrenta atualmente com a guerra no oriente médio.

Every winter, a grey haze settles over North India. Air pollution in the region cuts life expectancy by an estimated six to nine years, and seasonal agricultural fires account for a substantial share of this burden. J-PAL affiliates discuss evidence from Punjab shows that crop-burning incentives...