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October 2025 LAC Quarterly Newsletter

J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is working in Guatemala to structure a new initiative focused on early childhood development, Growing Futures. The office is also releasing a new Evidence to Policy piece on Mexico City’s Women’s Secretariat (SEMUJERES)' evidence use in the fight against...

Life’s Work: An Interview with Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo talks to the Harvard Business Review about why she became an economist, how she and her colleagues popularized the use of randomized controlled trials in their field, which tools and interventions have shown success in reducing poverty, and the role of public-private collaboration in...

Can AI make the poor world richer?

It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies.

October 2025 Global Monthly Newsletter

In the October edition of our newsletter, we highlight solutions to current policy challenges around the world: A new AI evidence alliance, a market-based approach to cutting pollution in India, strategies to help people enroll in health insurance in the US, boosting preschool learning in Brazil...

Video | World's first 'air pollution market' in Surat chosen as finalist for Earthshot Prize

An air pollution market is a 'cap and trade' scheme to reduce emissions from industries, unlike the current command and control regulations. It was pioneered in Surat by JPAL South Asia and UChicago's EPIC Centre with Gujarat Pollution Control Board, and is now a finalist for the Earthshot Prize...

States need to improve finances to expedite poverty alleviation agenda

States need to improve their financial health to achieve faster poverty reduction goals, J-PAL, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), global executive director Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal has said.

Direct cash transfers effective in poverty alleviation, says J-PAL's Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal

Hardware is hard but software is harder — India has built the hardware. Now the country must focus on the software – the people, their skills, their health and education, the economist tells Moneycontrol

Earthshot Prize Names State of Gujarat a Finalist for Groundbreaking Work on Air Pollution

Researchers affiliated with J-PAL helped the Indian state of Gujarat design and launch the world's first particulate pollution market. That project is now a finalist for one of the world’s most prestigious and impactful environmental award, The Earthshot Prize.