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LATEST RESEARCH & NEWS


NEW PUBLICATION

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.

Read the full article here.


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. 

Read the full blog post here.


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IPA IN THE NEWS

NYT

The Atlantic

The Economist
NBC News

Dhaka Tribune
​​​In The New York Times, Researchers Call for Mask-Wearing

The Atlantic Covers Masks Study in Bangladesh

In The Economist, Results of Bangladesh Study on Mask Use

Bangladesh Masks Study Featured in NBC News

The Dhaka Tribune on Study Increasing Mask-Wearing in Bangladesh

EVENTS

UPCOMING

Zambia Education Evidence Summit 2021
November (date TBD) | Webinar, Zambia

RECENT

Ghana National Education Week: Evidence Summit 2021
September 28-30 | Conference, Ghana 

Webinar | Organized Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from Mafia Infiltrated Municipalities in Italy
September 28 | Webinar, United States
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Webinar | Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil: Challenges to Integration and Local Impacts
September 22 | Webinar, United States

Webinar | Shifting Individual Behaviors in High Risk Settings: Lessons from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Inspired Interventions
August 19 | Webinar, United States

Government to People Payment Digitization: Understanding Beneficiaries’ Experiences
July 28 | Webinar, Bangladesh

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