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Pamela Campa
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Sanjeet Kumar
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Our Work
At J-PAL North America, we work across a number of program areas to better understand which anti-poverty programs and policies work and why.
Initiative
Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI Africa)
The Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa (DigiFI) aims to generate rigorous evidence on how African governments, private companies, and NGOs can leverage digital payments and identification systems to improve lives through better public service delivery, governance, and financial...
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Marc Witte
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GBV Solve: Open Funding Call
Aparajita, in collaboration with J-PAL South Asia is launching GBV Solve: Open Funding Call to support individuals and organizations passionate about addressing the pervasive issue of sexual harassment and violence, as well as other forms of gender-based violence (GBV). Applications due April 20...
Research Paper
File: Research paper
“Press 1 for Roads”: Bridging Communication Gaps in Political Representation
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Sam Carter
Sam is the Senior AI Policy Manager at J-PAL, where she leads efforts to use insights from existing evidence to maximize the social impact of artificial intelligence, and to generate new evidence on the impacts and unintended consequences of AI tools. Prior to joining J-PAL in 2025, Sam was a Senior...
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Iqbal Dhaliwal
Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal is the Global Executive Director of J-PAL since January 2018. He works with the Board of Directors to develop the organization’s strategic vision, and with the leadership of the seven regional offices to coordinate J-PAL’s worldwide research, policy outreach, capacity building...
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Maria Sarah
Policy insight
Microcredit: Impacts and promising innovations
Findings on the impacts of microcredit continue to evolve. Early evidence from randomized evaluations in low- and middle-income countries showed that the classic microcredit model did not lead to transformative impacts on income or consumption for the average borrower across many contexts. However...
Policy insight
Improving sanitation access with subsidies, loans, and community-led programs
Programs involving community behavior-change campaigns and subsidies to boost toilet construction can improve people’s access to and use of improved sanitation facilities. However, evidence on the downstream health impacts of common sanitation programs in low- and middle-income countries has been...
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.
Sector Policy Insights
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Policy Insights in Firms
J-PAL’s Firms sector focuses on private sector development and job creation. Our policy insights below summarize general lessons from randomized evaluations on strategies to help firms and entrepreneurs grow, create jobs, become more productive, and improve workers' lives and other development...
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