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Facilitating risk-sharing through self-help groups in Bihar

While the self-help group (SHG) programme in Bihar has improved access to low-cost credit for women, this article evaluates whether it improves risk-sharing by examining differences in village-level variance of consumption growth. It finds that improvements in risk-sharing occurred only in blocks...

How worker investments can fuel productivity in India’s manufacturing sector

In the second article in the Ideas@IPF2023 series, Adhvaryu et al. synthesise some facts on India’s declining manufacturing productivity and variations across states and industries. They examine existing literature on investments in four key areas with the potential to increase worker productivity –...

Jal Jeevan Mission gives term health and socio-economic outcomes

World Health Organization (WHO) in a recent study indicated huge health and socio-economic gains of Jal Jeevan Mission. The study estimates that ensuring safely managed drinking water for all households in the country could avert nearly 400,000 deaths caused by diarrheal diseases and prevent...

Finding the indiscernible poor: Community knowledge as a targeting approach

Varying estimates of poverty have often resulted in some deprived communities being excluded from government welfare schemes. Sabarwal and Chowdhry look at the case of Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana in Bihar, which uses the mechanisms recommended by BRAC’s Graduation Approach and harnesses community...

MIT’s Flagship Project To Pilot In Bangladesh And Sudan

An international project to build community resilience to the effects of climate change, launched by Community Jameel and a research team at MIT, has been recognized as an innovation sprint at the 2023 summit of the United States’ and United Arab Emirates’ Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate...

Cutting the cost of education alone is not enough to prevent dropout, finds research

Recently, the French Education Minister, Pap Ndiaye, announced a potential education reform requiring private schools to diversify their student population to maintain public subsidies from the State. J-PAL affiliates Abhijeet Singh and Mauricio Romero analyzed the effect of this policy introduction...

Three universities picked to train 10 lakh Indians in climate, health data work

Three universities have been picked to train 10 lakh Indians in climate work in collaboration with the South Asia branch of J-PAL.

Program launched to train 1 million Indians in climate and health data work

J-PAL is assisting three universities with the India Data Capacity Accelerator, which envisions one million Indians trained in using data to solve climate and health-related challenges.