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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...

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...

Iqbal Dhaliwal, Global Executive Director, J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab), which is based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) economics department and works to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence, believes that cash transfers on...

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.