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Blog
Reflecting on the end of USAID
Over the past two decades, J-PAL and members of our research network worked closely with USAID on many projects to design, pilot, and evaluate innovative solutions; scale up those found to be effective, scale down those that do not work; and widely share the learnings.
In the news
Opinion | Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for a rethink of foreign aid
In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments outside of the US, multilateral institutions, and philanthropists to take the lead on impactful and cost-effective foreign aid.
Case study
Lowering barriers to contraception use through mass media
An evidence-based family planning campaign delivered via mass media was scaled up across Burkina Faso, reaching 80 percent of the country’s population, and adapted in seven countries in southern and eastern Africa.
Policy insight
Increasing small-scale farmers’ access to agricultural markets
Farmers in low- and middle-income countries face challenges accessing markets and earning profits on their agricultural goods. When small-scale farmers have better access to both markets where they buy inputs for their own farming and markets where they sell their goods, they can often invest more...