Information & Communications Technology (ICT)

The spread of new technologies such as mobile phones and electronic payment networks have brought about new possibilities for the world's poor, and many programs across all sectors aim to harness this technology. IPA is investigating how programs such as market information for farmers, savings programs, and health information can be delivered to people via mobile phones and other technologies.

Using Mobile Platforms to Save for the Future: Evidence from Kenya

Co-written with Alejandra Martinez

Nudges for Financial Health: Global Evidence for Improved Product Design

Despite good intentions, people often make less-than-optimal financial choices. In this series, we match insights from our global research in behavioral economics with specific financial service...

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Nudging Parents to Improve Preschool Attendance in Uruguay	Cash Transfers in the Philippines: Empowering Households for Economic Recovery
Keeping Children Engaged in Distance Learning in the Philippines: Key Findings from the RECOVR Survey	Uso de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación para abordar la contaminación del aire en Colombia
Salud financiera y violencia doméstica en Colombia durante el COVID-19	Efectos de un programa de educación preescolar en STEM (ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas) basado en multimedia
Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia	Download Una aplicación móvil como herramienta para mejorar el registro de transacciones comerciales y las prácticas contables de los minoristas
Educación sexual en línea para escuelas en la zona urbana de Colombia	Improving Learning Outcomes: Lessons from Rigorous Evidence
Educación financiera a través de tabletas en Colombia	Evidence in Education in Ghana
Freeing Financial Education via Tablets: Experimental Evidence from Colombia	Tikichuela Ciencias en mi Escuela: Mejorando las Habilidades de Ciencias en el Preescolar en Paraguay
Dal Bó .pdf Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Paraguay	Peer Effects and Externalities in Technology Adoption: Evidence from Community Reporting in Uganda

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Using Mobile Platforms to Save for the Future: Evidence from Kenya	CREDIT: CONSAR Social Effects in the Age of Digital Finance
CREDIT: CONSAR Efectos sociales en la era de las finanzas digitales	Market vendor in Uganda receiving a mobile money payment CREDIT: Will Boase Testing Products, Scaling Solutions: A Call for New Research to Advance Digital Financial Services in the Developing World
CREDIT: Jan Chipchase Mobile-izing Savings with Defaults in Afghanistan	CREDIT: Tugela Rid Three Experts Look into the Future of Digital Finance
CREDIT: Deba Prasad Roy How will you do digital finance right?	Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Financial Inclusion
Making Change on a Mobile Handset	Better banking - getting above eight percent
Can Agents Improve Conditional Cash Transfers in Peru?	Financial Education in the Digital Age: It's affordable, it's scalable - but does it work?
New World Bank Report Highlights IPA’s Research, Calls for Redesign of Development Policy	Learning by asking: a modest proposal to engage those who did the doing
Measurement and Diversification: The Recovery and Potential of the Microcredit Industry	Testing Text Messages to Improve Financial Behavior

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IPA Côte d'Ivoire Study on Technology in Education Featured in L'Economiste Du Faso	Côte d'Ivoire's Frat Mat Covers IPA Study on the Impact of SMS Messages on Education
Vox on Using Media to Combat Domestic Violence in Uganda	Planet Money Takes a Lesson on Behavior Change from IPA's Intimate Partner Violence Research in Uganda
Agencia EFE Covers IPA Early Education Study in Panama	Researchers Report on Mobile Money and Savings Results in Harvard Business Review
Taking a space-age approach to food security	IPA Mobile Money study in Wall Street Journal
Pacific Standard Magazine selects IPA studies for 4 of top 5 behavioral studies in development	Leading Global Experts Prioritize Key Measures to Optimize Digital Finance for World’s Poorest People
IADB and IPA in the Dominican Republic	Impacting Women’s Lives through Digital Payments
New $7.4 million Grant Will Support Research for Financial Inclusion	The Guardian Sustainable Business: How should we gauge the success of poverty interventions?
Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman on financial services in developing countries	IPA, randomized controlled trials and researcher Lori Beaman in Burkina Faso news

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IPA Peru Co-Hosts Dissemination Event on Scaling Financial Education through Technology	IPA Peru Presents Preliminary Results of an Evaluation on Early Childhood Science Education Evaluation in Paraguay
IPA Peru Presents Preliminary Results of an Evaluation on Early Childhood Science Education Evaluation in Paraguay	IPA Zambia Presents at 10th ICT4D Conference in Lusaka
Evidence in Financial Inclusion III: New Findings and their Applications	Evidence in Financial Inclusion II: New Findings and their Applications
Evidence in Financial Inclusion I: New Findings and their Applications	IPA signs MOU with Bangladesh's access to information (a2i) division
18th Microcredit Summit: Frontier Innovations in Financial Inclusion	Evidence on Financial Inclusion Products and Programs
The mobile money revolution in Kenya: Can the promise be fulfilled?	Responsible Finance Forum VI: Evidence and Innovation for Scaling Inclusive Digital Finance
The Future of Finance: Technology and Financial Inclusion	Advancing Digital Financial Services
Harvard Social Enterprise Conference	Mobiles! What have we learned? Where are we going?

Nudges to Improve Parental Engagement and Gender Disparity in Remote Education During COVID-19 in Ghana	Reducing Job Search Costs with an SMS-based Messaging App in Rural Tanzania
Using Information and Communication Technologies to Address Air Pollution in Colombia	Financial Health and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia During COVID-19
Deferring Wages and Labor Supply in Malawi	Modern Man Challenge: Evaluating a Men-Focused Intervention to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in Liberia
The Impact of Text-Message Nudges on Preschool Attendance in Uruguay	The Effects of a Multimedia Preschool STEM Education Program in Colombia
Evaluating the Impact of Text and Audio Messages for Parents and Teachers in Côte d’Ivoire	The Impact of a Digital Credit for Small-Scale Farmers in Ghana
Using Social Networks to Increase Mobile Money Use in Pakistan	Mass Media Experiments to Reduce Violence Against Women in Tanzania
The Impact of a Women-Specific Credit Scoring Model on Women’s Access to Credit in the Dominican Republic	Piloting strategies to reduce anemia among women in the fishing industry in Ghana
The Impact of Internet Connectivity in Kenya	The Impact of Text-Message Reminders and Small Rewards on Timely Vaccination Coverage in Northern Ghana

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