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Giving directly to support poor households
GiveDirectly has expanded its cash transfer program, which was found in a randomized evaluation to have improved economic and psychological well-being in Kenya, to reach over 1.6 million people in Bangladesh, DRC, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and the United States.
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Yasmine Eid
Evidence to Policy Case Study
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Mobile conditional cash transfers to improve routine childhood immunization
The Health Department of the government of Sindh, Pakistan used rigorous evidence from a randomized evaluation to support the scale-up of an incentive program to increase routine childhood immunization coverage and timeliness.
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Paula Pedro
Paula Pedro is the Executive Director of the Latin America and the Caribbean office of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT. Paula’s experience in randomized control trials cuts across multiple sectors including social protection, energy efficiency, and early childhood...
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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.