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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...
Sector
Firms
J-PAL’s Firms sector evaluates how to best help firms and entrepreneurs grow, innovate, and contribute to economic growth and job creation that reduce global poverty. It also seeks to understand the impacts of firms on workers and their families, the environment, and the broader society.
Initiative Resource
Initiative projects and documents
Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI) Scholars Program
Event
J-PAL/MIT Evaluating Social Programs Course, 2024
This five-day, in-person training provides an in-depth look at why and when randomized evaluations can be used to rigorously measure the impact of social programs.
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Pablo Andres Egaña del Sol
Evaluation
Cash Transfers’ Effects on Food Consumption in Mexico
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of the anti-poverty cash transfer program, PROSPERA, on food consumption for families living in poverty in Mexico. Households consumed enough food both before and after receiving the cash transfer.
Blog
New Humanitarian Protection Initiative will help reduce harm to people affected by conflict
Today, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) launch the Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI). The core of this initiative is a research fund dedicated to generating rigorous evidence to inform policies and programs that protect conflict...
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Humanitarian Protection Initiative Scholars Information Session
This webinar was facilitated by the Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI), a new initiative focused on research questions on how to effectively improve humanitarian protection outcomes by keeping those who are affected by armed conflict safe from violence, coercion and deliberate deprivation...
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Fortaleciendo las Redes de Investigación en Guatemala
El evento busca congregar investigadores e investigadoras de diversas universidades de Guatemala con interés en primera infancia, nutrición, psicología, neurociencia y educación para fortalecer las redes de investigación en Guatemala
Evaluation
Building Trust in Fertilizer Quality Among Farmers in Tanzania
Researchers conducted an evaluation to test the impact of an information campaign about fertilizer quality on farmers’ beliefs and their purchase and use of fertilizer. The information campaign led farmers to change their beliefs about the quality of fertilizer available in local markets and to buy more fertilizer.
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The next decade of RCT research: What can we learn from recent innovations in methods?
From Teaching at the Right Level to the multifaceted Graduation approach, J-PAL’s affiliated researcher network has helped to evaluate a diverse range of innovative interventions aimed at reducing poverty over the past twenty years.
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Ecole d’été 2024: Méthodologies du Développement
Dans le cadre de la Chaire «Méthodologies du Développement» d’Abhijit Banerjee et Esther Duflo, une école d’été pour chercheurs et porteurs de projets africains sera organisée du 1 au 4 juillet 2024 à Rabat, sur le campus de l’Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P).
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Bariscan Yalcin
Blog
LEVER Partner Spotlight: Ricardo Basurto-Dávila on the County of San Diego’s Shallow Rent Subsidy program evaluation
Ricardo Basurto-Dávila, the Chief Evaluation Officer in the County of San Diego’s Office of Evaluation, Performance and Analytics, shares his experience participating in the LEVER Evaluation Incubator.
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A new diverse cohort joins the vibrant graduate network of the J-PAL/UC Diploma in Impact Evaluation
In January, a new diverse class graduated from the Diploma in Impact Evaluation of Public Policies and Social Programs organized by the Instituto de Economía (IE) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile) and J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean (J-PAL LAC). Forty-one students from...