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June 2025 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's June newsletter features reflections on our work in Puerto Rico, new research results on the impact of tutor-student gender match, and a recent symposium that the Health Care Delivery Initiative participated in.

Opinion | The retreat from aid is a costly mistake

It has been easy to dismiss efforts to raise the prospects of the world’s poorest as an abject failure. The United Nations reported 712 million people living in extreme poverty in 2022, 23 million more than in 2019. However, Foreign aid was helping the world’s poorest escape misery.

June 2025 Global Monthly Newsletter

In the June edition of the newsletter, we spotlight the launch of The Evidence Effect, a new campaign showcasing how research drives impact across sectors. This edition also celebrates five years of J-PAL MENA, highlights new evidence from Uganda on how fostering curiosity and discovery in...

Can Tradable Pollution Permits Work in Developing Countries?

A market for tradable pollution permits in India increased compliance with emissions restrictions, reduced particulate matter emissions, and made pollution abatement more affordable.

As global aid recedes, the need for proven solutions grows

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) recently published a brief that identifies six development programs that save lives, reduce disease, and help the poorest people in the world transition out of extreme poverty.

Podcast | Seeing the Invisible: Responses to Indoor Air Pollution, with Robert D. Metcalfe

In this podcast, Robert D. Metcalfe shares key findings on trends in indoor air quality, how people change their behavior when made aware of pollution levels in their homes, and the potential benefits and trade-offs of government subsidies for technologies that monitor indoor air quality. Metcalfe...

May 2025 North America Newsletter

J-PAL North America's May newsletter features an opinion piece on the value of sectoral employment programs, a new research project evaluating the Getting Going on Savings Initiative, and a new job board for public interest jobs.

Study in India shows several tactics together boost vaccination against deadly diseases

Around the world, low immunizations rates for children are a persistent problem. Now, an experiment conducted in India shows that an inexpensive combination of methods, including text reminders and small financial incentives, has a major impact on immunization.