Building a decentralized bank for micro businesses in Latin America
Alumni-founded Quipu Market offers loans and other financial services to entrepreneurs through its online marketplace.
Alumni-founded Quipu Market offers loans and other financial services to entrepreneurs through its online marketplace.
MIT political science master’s student Milain Fayulu is building brands to bring change to his home country.
New J-PAL North America publication helps policymakers understand summer programs’ wide-ranging benefits, in such areas as criminal justice involvement, education, and development.
Field experiment in Bangladesh shows the poor simply lack opportunities to gain wealth — but a one-time boost can make a major difference.
New collaboration aims to strengthen Egypt’s poverty alleviation policies through rigorous evaluation and innovation.
Senior Carene Umubyeyi seeks to advance sustainable structural design in her home country of Rwanda and beyond.
MIT spinout Safi Organics uses farmers’ crop residue to make an organic fertilizer that can increase yields and improve soil health.
Low-wage workers, who vote infrequently, gain a participation boost when their salaries increase.
MIT alumni-founded Spoiler Alert matches major food brands with discount grocers to sell perishable products.
MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.
Five new state and local government partners will work with J-PAL North America to develop rigorous evaluations of policies and programs related to environment, education, economic security, and housing stability.
In 14.009, a first-year class taught by Nobel laureates, MIT students discover how economics helps solve major societal problems.
In a recent panel discussion, experts describe opportunities for equality and equity.
A new book from the MIT Future Heritage Lab goes inside a Syrian refugee camp to uncover the creative lives of its inhabitants.
The award will support development-oriented research through a Center for Innovation and Technology at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.