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Initiative
Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI)
The IKEA Foundation is supporting the J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to generate and share new evidence on the impacts of livelihoods programs for displaced populations and host communities.
Initiative
Humanitarian Protection Initiative (HPI)
HPI is a collaboration between J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) with support from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) from the UK Government. The initiative will generate and share new evidence to inform policy and practice to effectively improve protection of...
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Sourav Das
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Sana Satpathy
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Danila Serra
Danila Serra is an Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. She conducts research on corruption, education choices, gender differences in education and labor outcomes, and women's empowerment.
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Valentina Duque
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Joana Monteiro
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Laura Schiavon
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Sakib Mahmood
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Launch of national partnership in Benin to support evidence-informed policymaking
J-PAL Africa has launched a multi-year partnership with Benin’s Ministry of Development and Coordination of Government Action to co-identify, generate, and integrate evidence into policy across the government.
Evaluation
Using Technology to Improve Direct Benefit Transfer in India
Can using technological innovations for monitoring improve the administrative implementation of social protection programs? In partnership with the Ministry of Rural Development in two states in India, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation of a new internet- and mobile-based management and monitoring platform, PayDash, to improve the administration of MGNREGS, a large workfare program in India. Platform access significantly reduced wage payment delays in areas with worse baseline performance and its use was higher when senior officials were also provided access.
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Giordano Frias Martinelli
Blog
African Scholar Spotlight: Oluwaremilekun Adebisi
Through our African Scholars Program, we hope to help create more opportunities for African researchers to advance the research agenda on the continent through randomized evaluations. In this spotlight, we speak with Oluwaremilekun Adebisi of the University of Ilorin in Nigeria.