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January 2024 J-PAL MENA Newsletter

The J-PAL Middle East and North Africa (MENA) January 2024 newsletter features updates and exciting news on expanding efforts under Egypt Impact Lab, the renewal of the Global Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Seminar Series Partnership, our conference on Partnership Development for Climate Adaptation in...

Fixing forest carbon credits

The world’s forests store an estimated 861 billion tonnes of carbon—equivalent to approximately 100 years worth of anthropogenic emissions, at current rates—and with good husbandry could potentially store up to 226 billion tonnes more. Clearly, preserving and repairing forests is a vital element of...

From Gender Inclusivity To Climate Change: Art Exhibition Explores Ways To Popularise Policy Discourse

The exhibition curated by Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, at Bikaner House, Delhi walks beyond the academic jargon and brings in several themes in an interactive manner to uphold how the evidence-based decision at the policy level can impact people’s lives.

The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya

What if the cure for people not having money was just giving them money, no strings attached? The argument for this idea is people know their own situation best. They can decide if they need a cow or training or a school. They just need some money.

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo turn findings into fun – play, exhibition

Research on gender was made into a play, and the perils of poor air quality were expressed through mundane objects.

OES and J-PAL start to create an impact with the PROSA project

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala highlights the introductory training course on the use and application of evidence taught by J-PAL LAC in Guatemala in December 2023. The course was part of PROSA disseminating activities. PROSA is the first program launched by the alliance between J-PAL and UVG...

A new class graduated from the Diploma in Impact Evaluation of Public Policies and Social Programs 2023

The Instituto de Economía UC highlights the graduation ceremony of the seventh cohort of the Diploma in Impact Evaluation of Public Programs and Policies that we organized together. Forty-one students from ten Latin American countries and one European country are now part of a vibrant network of...

The promises of elusive maharanis, and no-strings-attached money

Over-promising and under-delivering is of course one of the occupational hazards of my world, where the latest innovations in development thinking are subjected to the occasionally brutal test of evidence. The latest on the docket is Universal Basic Income (UBI).