A conversation with Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo about how Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) contributes to building a world with more evidence and less poverty.
Despite significant progress in the fight against poverty, challenges such as COVID-19 are forcing us to extend and improve our efforts. Through rigorous research and policy outreach, IPA discovers and advances what works to reduce poverty and improve lives. For example, as Esther Duflo explains, IPA helped generate evidence on the pricing of mosquito bed nets that significantly increased bednet usage, leading to reductions in malaria. Find out more about what we do and why it matters in this video.
How IPA contributes to building a world with more evidence and less poverty
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Innovations for Poverty Action
| 20 Nov 2020
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IPA is a recommended charity of The Life You Can Save. IPA's mission is to discover and promote effective and sustainable solutions to global poverty. IPA uses rigorous, evidence-backed techniques to develop, test, and appropriately scale solutions to some of the most challenging problems faced by the world's extreme poor.
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