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City’s WAE Lab targets clean air, water and energy solutions

Cape Town Etc
The City of Cape Town, in partnership with J-PAL Africa and Community Jameel, launched the Water, Air and Energy (WAE) Lab, a collaboration aimed at generating evidence-based solutions to improve clean air, water and reliable energy for Capetonians.

March 2024 North America Monthly Newsletter

J-PAL North America's March Newsletter features reflections on our recent work and upcoming plans to advance rigorous research on racial equity, including our seven-part blog series on how research plays a critical role in identifying systems and policies that further racial equity.

Empowering adolescents to transform schools: Lessons from behavioural targeting

Vox EU CEPR
This column reports on a programme targeting ‘challenging’ students at disadvantaged middle schools in Turkey, in which senior students were tasked with delivering the curriculum to junior students.

New Water, Air, and Energy Lab to improve access for Capetonians

Independent Online
In a positive move towards sustainable urban development, Cape Town has unveiled its latest initiative, the Water, Air, and Energy (WAE) Lab, aimed at addressing critical environmental challenges and improving access to essential resources for its residents.

How to support entrepreneurship in low- and middle-income countries

World Bank Blogs
More than half of the global workforce is self-employed. Recognizing the need to support these workers, policymakers and development institutions spend over $1 billion annually on training existing and potential microentrepreneurs.

Generando evidencia para informar las políticas educativas en Puerto Rico mediante colaboraciones de investigación y práctica

El Segundo Simposio Internacional sobre Investigación e Impacto en la Educación destacó el valor de las colaboraciones de investigación en la construcción y el uso de evidencia para informar las políticas educativas

Jeanne Lafortune takes over as co-scientific director of J-PAL LAC

Instituto de Economía, UC
The Instituto de Economía UC congratulates J-PAL affiliate and UC Chile professor Jeanne Laforne as co-scientific director of J-PAL LAC. They interviewed her and shared some of her goals and priorities in the new role.

UCT hosts Nobel Laureate for lecture on universal basic income in the developing world

University of Cape Town News
On 13 March, the University of Cape Town (UCT) welcomed Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, an expert in development economics, for an open lecture on the potential transformative effects of universal basic income in the developing world.