Supporting Women-led Businesses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Through the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond

By Elizabeth Koshy and Lucia Sanchez

In this brief, Innovations for Poverty Action has compiled evidence-based insights for the short- and long-term recovery of women-led businesses in low- and middle-income countries from the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has negatively impacted many businesses. Given emerging data on the gender dimensions of the crisis, this brief focuses specifically on how to ensure that women and women-led businesses are included in the economic recovery from the pandemic.

Read the full brief here.

NEW ARTICLE

The Largest Study on Masks and COVID-19 Revealed That Masks Work

By Heidi McAnnally-Linz, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, and Ashley Styczynski

In this article for the Washington Post, researchers Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak and Ashley Styczynski along with former IPA Director of Policy & External Relations, Heidi McAnnally-Linz, talk about the recent IPA study on how to increase mask use and its impact on COVID-19. They highlight the importance of building large-scale coalitions to transform useful information into programs that reach millions of people.

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NEW BLOG POST

Locally-Grounded Research: Strengthening Partnerships to Advance the Science and Impact of Development Research

By Suleiman Asman, Claudia Casarotto, Annie Duflo, and Radha Rajkotia

Over IPA’s nearly 20 years of moving evidence to impact, we have learned that strong technical skills combined with a deep knowledge of and connection to the local context are critical to putting evidence to use. We believe that making research more locally grounded—by increasing the engagement of researchers from the countries where our research activities are taking place—will likely lead to more policy-relevant and impactful studies. In this blog post, we lay out why and how we are embarking on this new strategy.

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Digital Credit and Donor Funds: Public Goods for Private Companies?
By Rafe Mazer

Locally-Grounded Research: Strengthening Partnerships to Advance the Science and Impact of Development Research
By Suleiman Asman, Claudia Casarotto, Annie Duflo, Radha Rajkotia

RECOVR Roundup Vol. 25: Social Protection in the Time of COVID-19
By Luciana Debenedetti, Jeffrey Mosenkis, and Rachel Strohm

10 Leadership Lessons My IPA Colleagues Have Taught Me In (Almost) 10 Years
By Heidi McAnnally-Linz

RECOVR Roundup Vol. 24: Social Protection in the Time of COVID-19
By Luciana Debenedetti, Jeffrey Mosenkis, and Rachel Strohm