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JEEViKA, Bandhan-Konnagar, and J-PAL South Asia launch the Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana Playbook to double down on the fight against extreme poverty at scale
JEEViKA, Bandhan-Konnagar, and J-PAL South Asia launch the Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana Playbook to double down on the fight against extreme poverty at scale.
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Nana Teillard
Nana Touré Teillard joined J-PAL Africa in 2025 as a Policy Manager, leading efforts to scale evidence-based health interventions across sub-Saharan Africa.
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Pathways to Preschool
J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Fundação Bracell and Itaú Social are joining forces to address some of these challenges in Bahia, Mato Grosso do Sul, and São Paulo through the project Pathways to Preschool. The project seeks to identify promising preschool programs, evaluate their...
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Welfare Benefits of Decentralized Solar Energy for the Rural Poor in India
To evaluate the demand for solar electricity, researchers randomly offered solar microgrid connections at different prices to households in rural areas of Bihar, India. Demand for microgrids was highly variable and low when they were offered at market price, likely because there were several other sources of electricity providing similar services.
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Environment & Energy
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Jordana Ferreira Da Silva
Jordana Silva is a Senior Associate in Research and Training at J-PAL in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). She is part of the Partnerships with Governments of Brazil Project team. She is responsible for J-PAL's partnership with the Secretariat of Monitoring and Evaluation in an agenda with the...
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The Evidence Effect: Ideas for the future of development
With fewer resources available, the bar is even higher for deciding which social sector and development programs to invest in. Evidence can help governments, funders, and implementing organizations navigate today’s challenges and make more effective and cost-effective decisions.
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Teaching at the Right Level to improve learning
Reorienting instruction has improved learning opportunities for over 60 million students in India and Africa.
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Designing a social protection program during Covid-19
J-PAL affiliated researchers supported the Government of Chile in designing a cash transfer program during the Covid-19 pandemic, which reached almost 3 million households.
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Phone-based technology for agricultural information delivery
In this Evidence to Policy case study, see how Precision Development leveraged findings from two randomized evaluations to create and diffuse a new mobile-phone based model for agricultural extension.
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Frank Hoekman
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Community-based targeting to combat Covid-19-induced poverty
Using community targeting methods to distribute cash transfers during Covid-19 has provided relief to over eight million recipients previously unenrolled in any social protection program in Indonesia.
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Limits of technological solutions to provider monitoring
Based on evidence that biometric monitoring technology did not increase doctors' attendance at primary health centers, the government of Karnataka decided to end the program, saving taxpayers millions of dollars.
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Yasmine Elkhateeb
Yasmine Elkhateeb is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at J-PAL Middle East and North Africa. She is also an Assistant Lecturer of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University and a Short-Term Consultant to the Office of the Chief Economist for the MENA region at the...