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Radha Rajkotia has joined IPA as our Chief Research & Policy Officer.

(Editor's note: The title of this post has been updated.) IPA pursues many strategies to move evidence to policy impact, but one that engenders particularly meaningful partnerships is to work from within governments, whether through embedding staff...

If you’re a teacher in the United States with a student loan, you can get $5,000 to $17,500 of your student loans forgiven by the federal government after five consecutive years of teaching in low-income schools. To do this, you’d have to first...

Editor’s note: This is part two in a series on what IPA has learned about making sure evidence gets used, and what we hope to do more of in the future.  See part one, laying out our new strategic ambition, here.  

What does it take to move evidence to policy? Introducing our Theory of Action, and a new strategic plan to make it happen.

Co-written with Alejandra Martinez

Editor's note: This cross-posting appeared originally on the BOLD blog. 

The transition from informal, group-based, financial services to formal, individual-based, digital financial services may come about with some unintended consequences, such as the reduction of the positive effects linked to social pressure.

La transición de un modelo de servicios financieros informales grupales hacia servicios financieros digitales formales e individuales puede traer consigo consecuencias inesperadas, como lo es la reducción de los efectos positivos ligados a la...

Imagine you were just handed a check – a check in addition to and larger than most of your paychecks. Do you know what you would do with this money? And what would it take to change your mind?

Professors Sharon Wolf of the University of Pennsylvania and Larry Aber of New York University spoke to an audience in New York about their studies with IPA in Ghana on improving the country's early childhood education system. IPA Executive Director...

By Alejandra Martinez and Danielle Moore

Por Gabriella Wong & Hugo Salas ¿Pueden los mensajes de texto influir en el comportamiento financiero? IPA está trabajando en estrecha colaboración con SBS para descubrir cómo mejorar los puntajes crediticios en Perú.

Editor's note: this is a cross-posting with the RTI blog.  

By: Gabriella Wong & Hugo Salas

Editor's note: This is a cross-posting which appeared originally on the World Bank Development Impact Blog.