Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

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The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (often short Poverty Action Lab ) is an American research center that is institutionally located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is dedicated to the application of research results in the fight against poverty , based on randomized field experiments .

history

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab was founded in 2003 by Professors Abhijit Banerjee , Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The concept of the Poverty Action Lab was on the one hand to start, carry out and evaluate more field experiments in the area of ​​poverty research, on the other hand to actively promote the use of randomized field experiments in research in order to improve the quality of the research and ultimately the effectiveness of development policy Measures to increase. After its establishment, the Poverty Action Lab began a partnership with the NGO Innovations for Poverty Action led by Dean Karlan .

In the coming years a number of training programs will be started (including USA, India 2005; Nigeria 2007; France 2008; Chile 2009) and a number of foreign branches will be opened (J-PAL South Asia 2007; J-PAL Europe 2008; J-PAL Latin America 2009; J-PAL Africa 2010). In 2007, J-PAL and Young Global Leaders started a public health initiative called Deworm the World at the World Economic Forum , which is aimed at combating worm parasites in developing countries.

In 2012, 70 professors worked together with the Poverty Action Lab in various development policy and economic development areas.

Programs

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab conducts development policy programs with a research background in the fields of agriculture, education, environment and energy, finance and microfinance, health, labor markets, and political economy and governance. By 2012, the Poverty Action Lab had 352 ongoing or completed projects in 52 countries. By 2012, 1,014 people had been trained as part of the training programs.

financing

The start-up funds required for the foundation were made available to the Poverty Action Lab by the Department of Economics and the School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences at MIT. Substantial funding in the form of three research grants was provided in 2005 by Abdul Latif Jameel, an MIT alumnus. This funding prompted the renaming of the Poverty Action Lab to Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in memory of the deceased father of the patron. In 2006, the Poverty Action Lab received additional funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , the Nike Foundation, Russ Siegelman, and the Doug B. Marshall Jr. Foundation. Additional funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Nike Foundation will go to the Urban Services Initiative and the Youth Initiative of the Poverty Action Lab, respectively.

Awards

In 2008 the Poverty Action Lab received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the BBVA Foundation for its development work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ povertyactionlab.org
  2. ↑ povertyactionlab.org ( Memento from May 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ web.mit.edu
  4. ↑ The Poverty Action Lab at MIT Wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Development Cooperation Category ( Memento from March 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )