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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.

In her 2017 Ely lecture, Esther Duflo adroitly noted that the model economist must be willing to be an “economist-plumber…in the pursuit of good implementation of public policy, she is willing to tinker.” This mentality has been absent in the...

by Daniel Hurtado

This is the fourth in a series of blog posts summarizing the discussions from a May 2017 researcher gathering on measuring women’s empowerment in impact evaluatio

  Here are some of our favorite recent podcasts to make your holiday travels a little easier - enjoy!  

Editor's note: This post originally appeared on the African Microfinance Week site.

by Nicola Jones and Danielle Moore