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Changing Lives Through Better Policy
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J-PAL impacts lives every day. With a new and substantial gift from Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel, J-PAL will sharpen its focus on translating research into action by promoting the adoption of successful programs in new and more places globally.
More than 30 million people have been reached so far. READ MORE about our plans to get to 100 million by 2013.
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J-PAL Wins International Award
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 J-PAL received the 2009 BBVA Frontier of Knowledge Award for its innovative work in fighting poverty with scientific evidence. READ MORE about the award.
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Executive Training Online
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J-PAL's weeklong executive education course on randomized evaluations is now available online. The course is offered annually in the United States, Europe and India to provide in-depth, practical training on how to run randomized evaluations. As an innovation, this year's course materials and lectures have been added to the MIT OpenCourseWare site. CHECK IT OUT.
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Spotlight on Our Partners:
Spandana
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 Servicing more than 2.5 million poor women, Spandana is one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India. Together with J-PAL researchers Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Abhijit Banerjee, Cynthia Kinnan and the Centre for Micro Finance, Spandana carried out a seminal study on the impact of microfinance on the lives of poor people. In the study, Spandana rolled out its services across 52 previously unserved slums in Hyderabad, randomly selected from 104 slums, to allow for an assessment of the effects on microentrepreneurship and wellbeing of offering microcredit in urban slums.
Spandana's website is www.spandanaindia.com.
The Centre for Micro Finance's website is www.ifmr.ac.in/cmf.
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New Bulletin
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 Check out our new bulletin on strategies to combat service provider absenteeism.
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Ten million schoolchildren are set to benefit from the first, large-scale school-based deworming program in India. A joint initiative between four State Government departments in Andhra Pradesh and Deworm-the-World, the program aims to curb the prevalence of intestinal worms that cause anemia, growth retardation and can lead to poor attendance and school performance. READ MORE
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J-PAL EXECUTVE COURSE IN SPANISH
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J-PAL Executive Course in Spanish to be held at Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Chile, in December 2009. READ MORE
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NEW PAPERS
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