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In a recent interview with Liberation, Nobel Prize-winning development economist Abhijit Banerjee reflects on the field of development economics and its advocacy efforts. Banerjee acknowledges that development economists have fallen short in their responsibility to effectively communicate and...

The Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Rabat brought together researchers, policymakers, and international experts for a major conference focused on how scientific research can help create better public policies in Morocco. Keynote speaker Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize-winning economist, MIT...

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.

UNICEF and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile) have signed a regional Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen research,​ training​​, evaluation, ​knowledge exchange, ​and​ evidence use for​ policy impact for child welfare across Latin America and the Caribbean.

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

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.