Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

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The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a network of over 250 affiliated professors around the world who are united by their use of randomized evaluations to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. J-PAL’s mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. J-PAL works to achieve this by:
*Conducting Rigorous Impact Evaluations
*Building Capacity
*Informing Policy

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United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

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2003

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Dec 12, 2025	Terre des hommes India Organises 'Children and Climate 2025', Calls for Integrated Child-Responsive Climate Action	New Delhi, Delhi, India Terre des hommes (Tdh) India, a child rights organisation that has deepened its understanding of how climate change affects children by actively listening to young people in the Sundarbans region and in Jharkhand, or...
Oct 7, 2025	Africa: A $3.7m Initiative Launches to Advance Ethical Ai in Africa and Asia	The AI Evidence Alliance for Social Impact (AEASI) -- has been launched to promote the responsible and evidence-based use of artificial intelligence AEASI is part of a broader $7.5 million collaboration with Google.org supporting AI impact ...
Sep 15, 2025	Climate Action Learning Lab helps state and local leaders identify and impl...	This spring, J-PAL North America — a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) — launched its first ever Learning Lab, centered on climate action. The Learning Lab convened a cohort of government leaders who are...
May 21, 2025	The economics of clean energy	Kara Miller: I’m Kara Miller. Rob Stoner: And I’m Rob Stoner. KM: And from the MIT Energy Initiative, this is What if it works? A podcast looking at the solutions for climate change. Today we’re going to examine how the world’s most populou...
Oct 19, 2024	Government of Karnataka Partners with J-PAL South Asia to Accelerate and Scale Policy Innovations in School Education	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India The Government of Karnataka has partnered with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to set up a “learning lab” to solve some of the biggest challenges in school education through science a...
Jul 28, 2024	Bridging the Gap: Tech for Jobs Initiative in Jordan	In the heart of the Middle East, Jordan stands at a crossroads. The nation grapples with economic challenges, yet it possesses a wealth of untapped potential. Enter the "Tech for Jobs" initiative, a groundbreaking program designed...
Jul 25, 2024	Correlation One Launches USAID-Funded "Tech for Jobs," the Largest Training-to-Jobs Program in Jordan	AMMAN, Jordan, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Correlation One, a global workforce development platform that prepares people for the jobs of the future, has launched the "Tech for Jobs" program, a first-of-its-kind training-to-jobs ...
Mar 27, 2024	Ministry of Rural Development Partners with J-PAL South Asia as it Expands 'Samaveshi Aajeevika' Across India	New Delhi, Delhi, India The Government of India’s Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has brought the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia at IFMR on board as a knowledge partner on ‘Samaveshi Aajeevika’, a comprehensiv...
Jun 22, 2022	How Good Nature Agro is layering digital tools to unlock better services for Zambia’s farmers	Zambia is a Southern African country rich in arable land yet only 15% of it is cultivated. Its predominantly rural population is highly dependent on agriculture with around 60% of households participating in agricultural activities and 50% ...
Apr 27, 2022	Making Medicare, Medicaid innovation tests voluntary undermines evaluation opportunities	The U.S. health care system is often inefficient, ineffective, and inequitable. Compared to other high-income countries, the U.S. pays more for health care and has worse outcomes. One potentially fruitful avenue for controlling costs and im...
Mar 17, 2022	Africa: Challenges of Fingerprinting - Will Digital IDs Revolutionise Service Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa?	Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and be...
Mar 2, 2022	Veddis Foundation and J-PAL South Asia Set up ASPIRE to Accelerate Evidence-based Policymaking	New Delhi, Delhi, India The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia and Veddis Foundation announced the launch of the Alliance for Scaling Policy Impact through Research and Evidence (ASPIRE) today. ASPIRE aims to spur the ...
Dec 13, 2021	World Bank : Big potential for digitizing wage payments in Cambodia's garment factories	The world is moving to digital payments. They are faster, more secure, more transparent and more efficient than cash.Digital payments can support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and empower women and youth. The COVID-19 pandemic has acc...
Nov 15, 2021	BIC : SPONSORS THE ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB'S TUTORING AND PARENTAL PROGRAM	FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BIC SPONSORS THE ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB'S TUTORING AND PARENTAL PROGRAM Clichy, France and Shelton, CT, November 15, 2021 -- As part of its commitment to improving children's learning conditions globally...
Sep 10, 2021	How can we protect education from attack? A focus on Western and Central Africa	Email Share Tweet Share Comment Ikoyi, Lagos/ Nigeria - December 14th, 2019 : An event organised by non governmental organisations on the missing chibok yet to be brought back home Copyright (c) 2020 Alucardion/Shutterstock. No use without ...
Feb 10, 2021	Kelly Education, the Nation’s Largest Education Talent Provider, Launches Tutoring Solutions	TROY, Mich., Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The effects of the pandemic on a generation of students is well-documented, with students expected to lose as much as a year of learning. To support both students and teachers, Kelly Education—...
Dec 29, 2020	How to persuade your vaccine-sceptic friends to get the COVID-19 shot, according to a Nobel prize-winner who studies vaccine hesitancy	Dr. Abhijit Banerjee on November 16, 2012 in New Delhi, India. Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2019 along with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer for their research on how to alleviate poverty, w...
Dec 17, 2020	BIC : and Exane BNP Paribas pioneer the first European Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Impact Share Buyback Program	BIC Corporate Foundation for Education. BIC and Exane BNP Paribas pioneer the first European Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Impact Share Buyback Program Clichy, FRANCE - 17 December 2020 - BIC today announced it will partner with...
Oct 29, 2020	Think globally, act locally. But where to invest?	In developing your plan for giving or impact investing, the inevitable questions come up of if and where to focus geographically. Assuming you don’t have endless cash to deploy for solving our seemingly endless list of global problems, you ...
Jan 16, 2020	Brazil’s Positive Ventures Raises Capital, Plans Palo Alto Office	22 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Positive Ventures, a Sao Paulo-based venture firm operating in stealth mode since 2016, has secured $4.8 million of a targeted $12 million fund. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily Its self-described ...
Jan 16, 2020	Brazil’s Positive Ventures Raises Capital, Plans Palo Alto Office	23 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Positive Ventures, a Sao Paulo-based venture firm operating in stealth mode since 2016, has secured $4.8 million of a targeted $12 million fund. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily Its self-described ...
Jan 8, 2020	Did a high-profile program really slash hospital spending? Or was it a cautionary tale of ‘regression to the mean’?	In the late 19th century, English polymath Sir Francis Galton noted that tall parents often had kids shorter than they were, while short parents often ended up with taller kids. He dubbed this regression to the mean — when something measure...
Dec 9, 2019	2019 Nobel Prize Recipient, Abhijit Banerjee, Reflects On Leadership In The Social Sector	Last week I had the good fortune to sit down for lunch with MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee — one of the three winners of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences — just hours before he was to board a flight to Sweden. Upon arrival...
Jul 3, 2017	Turn to evidence-based approaches for spending $800 million to fight opioid addiction	The bipartisan spending agreement Congress passed earlier this year includes about $800 million to fight opioid addiction and increase access to treatment and recovery services. This appropriation — up from $150 million in the last budget —...
Nov 19, 2015	Dumbo’s BioLite is carbon-neutral now	The idea, prima facie, of a carbon-neutral stove company is almost impossible to grasp. The entire purpose of stoves is to burn carbon-based material and release its energy. But, BioLite makes a different kind of stove. Its HomeStove, which...
Jul 29, 2015	$5 million invested in stove startup	A Dumbo-based startup received a shock of socially conscious capital, with BioLite announcing $5 million in funding and financing, the company announced Tuesday. The funding round was led by the charity investment fund Acumen, with addition...
Aug 5, 2014	Understanding What Communities Really Value	There is nothing more convincing that someone citing research, and yet we often don’t know if what’s being cited is any good. Research can be bad if it’s poorly conducted or if the wrong evaluative method was used to answer the question. Th...
Oct 21, 2013	Dumbo’s BioLite HomeStoves deployed in Ghana, India and Uganda	Brooklyn’s BioLite Home Stove has been designed in Dumbo to deliver a healthier cooking experience to people in the developing world who still use traditional fuels. Not only that, but it also allows them to charge their electronic devices ...
	Understanding What Communities Really Value	There is nothing more convincing that someone citing research, and yet we often don’t know if what’s being cited is any good. Research can be bad if it’s poorly conducted or if the wrong evaluative method was used to answer the question. Th...

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When was Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) founded?

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) was founded in 2003.

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Parsers VC has collected 30 articles mentioning Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), among them “Terre des hommes India Organises 'Children and Climate 2025', Calls for Integrated Child-Responsive Climate Action” (Dec 12, 2025) and “Africa: A $3.7m Initiative Launches to Advance Ethical Ai in Africa and Asia” (Oct 7, 2025).

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Yes, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 7, 2026.