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Africa: How Can We Achieve a Malaria-Free World?

Malaria is a major global health issue, and despite progress, there are still high rates of morbidity and mortality from the disease, particularly in Africa.

History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

David Ricardo, one of the founders of modern economics in the early 1800s, understood that machines are not necessarily good or bad. His insight that whether they destroyed or created jobs depends on how we deploy them, and on who makes those choices, could not be more relevant today.

A revolution in helping Africa’s poor: Cash with no strings attached

A pioneering program in Malawi lets recipients decide how best to use the lump-sum payments.

Q&A: Claire Walsh on how J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative tackles the twin climate and poverty crises

Since 2020, K-CAI has innovated and tested climate policies in more than 35 countries and supported scale-ups that have reached over 15 million people.

How Mark Zuckerberg is reimagining the classroom

CNN
“I think that (VR) is one area that really would benefit from having some additional research,” said Vincent Quan, an education researcher and co-executive director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.

Nobel-Prize laureate Abhijit Banerjee on the world's largest UBI experiment [Podcast]

ABC
The world's largest Universal Basic Income trial is currently underway in Kenya. It involves 295 villages and more than 20,000 families. The trial has just reached the two-year mark and Nobel-Prize winning economist, Abhijit Banerjee, joins us to talk about its progress – both economic and social.

April 2024 Newsletter

In the April 2024 newsletter, read about launching the Cape Town Water, Air, and Energy Lab, a new Policy Insight on preventing crime and violence, and lessons from the Nobel Symposium.

Podcast: Curiosity Unbounded, Episode 8 — Hard facts on soft skills

Namrata Kala speaks with MIT President Sally Kornbluth about the importance of soft skills training, and the benefits of being a straight shooter.