 Rodrigo Canales
June 12, 2020
For the last three years, Rodrigo Canales, an associate professor of organizational behavior at Yale SOM, has led a project studying police forces in Mexico and testing approaches to building more effective and trusted departments. We asked him what... |
 Heidi McAnnally-Linz, Nassreena Sampaco-Baddiri, Bethany Park, Shahana Hirji
June 11, 2020
IPA is building on existing relationships and responding to dozens of policy partners to ensure that in our case, the answer is “yes.” We are working hard to understand exactly what questions these partners are asking and how data and evidence can... |
 Kate Glynn-Broderick
May 22, 2020
To help mitigate gaps in the current crisis response, IPA is pivoting an existing research project with Bangladesh’s government on digital payments to respond to COVID-19’s challenges.
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 May 11, 2020
By Tom Wein
Editor's note: This cross-post originally appeared on Medium.
I had previously noted that the Global South was missing in studies of coronavirus, according to a couple of major databases compiling surveys. In one database, just 1/230... |
 May 07, 2020
As women around the globe are increasingly quarantined, they are also exposed to increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV).
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 John Branch, Elliott Collins
April 28, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing research projects around the world to move from face-to-face data collection to shorter, phone-based methods using SMS messages or voice calls. As research continues in this modified form, a critical challenge will... |
 John Branch, Bethany Park, Shahana Hirji
April 23, 2020
Across IPA’s 22 country offices, we partner with several dozen government ministries. In recent weeks, a new policy priority has arrived on most every policymaker’s agenda: responding to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 crisis.
Many of the... |
 April 21, 2020
This post, written by Maria Jones, Roshni Khincha, Florence Kondylis, and Lysca Uwamayriya originally appeared on the World Bank's blog.
From David et al's two-part blog post (part 1 and part 2) last week, you now know how to construct your sample,... |
 Radha Rajkotia
April 17, 2020
In response to COVID-19, we must innovate and learn to ensure that we can drive to scale effective and contextually-appropriate policies.
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 Loïc Watine, Ben Tan, Laura Sofia Castro Fonseca
April 14, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has changed the way the development sector operates. Many funders are working with their grantees as they pivot their usual development programming to accommodate the new reality—whether by transforming their work to a feasible... |
 Annie Duflo
April 09, 2020
As COVID-19 reaches more of the countries where we work and governments respond with increasing lockdowns and containment measures across the developing world, there is an urgent need to understand the most effective responses that can save lives at... |
 Jeffrey Mosenkis, Oeindrila Dube
March 31, 2020
New findings related to the 2014-15 Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone have implications for health systems in the current COVID-19 crisis.
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 Annie Duflo
March 18, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly across the globe, we at IPA—like all of you—have been closely monitoring this rapidly evolving situation and adapting our lives and our work as a result. We have been consulting widely to determine the best... |
 Lucia Sanchez, Rebecca Rouse, Elizabeth Koshy, Kate Glynn-Broderick
March 05, 2020
Sunday, March 8 is International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion, IPA staff members are highlighting some insightful readings focused on economic empowerment for women.
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 Rafe Mazer
February 07, 2020
IPA has launched the first-ever fund for experimental consumer protection work in emerging markets.
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 January 15, 2020
This post, written by Laura Chioda (World Bank) with contributions from Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley), Meghan Mahoney (Educate!), Kat Blesie, and Lauren Russell, originally appeared on CEGA's Medium website.
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 Heidi McAnnally-Linz
December 19, 2019
As we close a very eventful 2019, it was refreshing to be able to recollect some highlights of IPA’s policy engagement around the world and reflect on what we’ve learned and where we’re going next when it comes to sharing evidence strategically.
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 Sebastian Chaskel, Radha Rajkotia
December 16, 2019
There is very little evidence on what works for forcibly displaced and host community populations. IPA is responding to this gap by launching a new Humanitarian and Forced Displacement Initiative.
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 December 06, 2019
As IPA partners in the public sector to equip governments to leverage evidence for decision-making, we have had an intimate view of how this has played out.
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 CREDIT: Nick Lockey/Flickr Jeffrey Mosenkis
November 25, 2019
It's that time of year, when we help you survive upcoming travel delays, or surreptitiously listen to something else on your discreet bluetooth earbud while nodding along with Uncle Pete explaining to you things you didn't know about reinsurance (... |
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