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2025 Annual Letter from the Global Executive Director
2024 has been a particularly challenging year, with multiple global conflicts, deep human suffering, and worsening climate change. But it has also been a pivotal year, marked by many consequential elections and the rapid realization of AI's potential to reshape our world. As political and...
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April 2025 Global Monthly Newsletter
In this edition of our newsletter, we spotlight a new global learning alliance to advance data-driven decision-making, share how evidence is informing policy decisions in Egypt, and highlight how cash grants are helping protect the Amazon.
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An AI evaluation framework for the development sector
This is the first blog post in a series designed to help implementers, policymakers, and funders unpack the different types of evaluations relevant for “AI for Good” applications. Stay tuned for forthcoming posts providing a deeper dive on each of the evaluation levels.
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The life-saving power of high school scholarships
Investing in girls’ secondary education can have big payoffs for girls and for the next generation.
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A path to prosperity for the most vulnerable families
The Graduation approach is a proven "big push" program that has empowered people to pull themselves out of extreme poverty across at least 20 countries.
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Boosting vaccine coverage to save children's lives
Making vaccines easier to access and more in-demand protects children from getting sick and dying from preventable diseases.
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Soap operas for safe sex: Changing young people's behavior through media
An entertaining television drama series led young adults to adopt safer sexual health practices—succeeding where other public health campaigns have struggled.
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Randomization’s capacity for flexibility: How to build randomization into a competitive, multi-step application process
This post discusses an evaluation design by researchers at J-PAL North America and Pursuit to measure the impact of the Pursuit's sectoral employment program, showing how randomization can be integrated into the application process without compromising enrollment preferences.
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Giving cash simply works
When low-income families receive cash with no strings attached, their lives improve in measurable ways.
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Building Retirement Savings for Young Adults
An evaluation of the Jonathan Clements Getting Going on Savings Initiative will measure the impact of gifting $1,000 contributions to Roth IRAs
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Where evidence meets practice: Inside UNICEF and J-PAL’s FLN Academy 3.0
FLN Academy 3.0 is a collaboration between UNICEF and J-PAL that supports UNICEF regional and country offices and local stakeholders in applying evidence-based solutions to advance foundational literacy and numeracy.
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Dentro do Programa MITx MicroMasters® em Dados, Economia, e Design de Políticas (DEDP)
O próximo período do Programa MITx MicroMasters® em Dados, Economia e Elaboração de Políticas está se aproximando rapidamente! Junte-se à equipe do curso DEDP em um webinário para saber mais sobre o programa e ter suas perguntas respondidas ao vivo. Uma gravação do evento será enviada a todos os...
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”Deworming days” at school are something to celebrate
Providing regular deworming pills for children helps them stay in school, learn more, and earn more as adults.
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Rethink microcredit for greater impacts
Innovations in microcredit design can improve business growth and borrower wellbeing.
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Measuring impact: Transforming philanthropy through evidence
Philanthropic organizations often face a dilemma: Each challenge has many potentially good solutions—but most organizations have limited time and resources to effectively implement multiple programs at once. This webinar, co-hosted by J-PAL and the Institute of Philanthropy (IoP), will explore how...