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MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee and MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology Visiting Artist Sarnath Banerjee collaborated on a pair of short films addressing an environmental crisis facing present-day India by tracing its origins back through the centuries.

An international project to build community resilience to the effects of climate change, launched by Community Jameel and a research team at MIT, will pilot in Bangladesh and Sudan.

Rastra, Indonesia’s national food aid program, is more effective when the poor use debit cards at grocery stories rather than receiving bags of food sent to their homes, according to an MIT J-PAL study.

New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI/PNN): With the objective to unlock the potential of India's youth, Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) organized 'Prayaas - Young Minds, New Possibilities' an invite-only conference held on January 31in New Delhi. Prayaas aimed to stimulate a cohesive and collective understanding of the current issues and instil a sense of urgency towards building new pathways for the youth of our country. The event was supported by YuWaah and Amazon. Some leaders i...

New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI/PNN): Towards unlocking the potential of India's youth, Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam) is organizing 'Prayaas - Young Minds, New Possibilities', an invite-only conference on Jan 31 in New Delhi. Prayaas aims to stimulate a cohesive understanding of the current issues that can be collectively solved, through strategic and action-oriented steps. The event is supported by - YuWaah and Amazon. Change-makers from over 100 of India's top organisa...

Matthew Notowidigdo has been named co-scientific director of J-PAL North America. The professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business an MIT alumnus will guide J-PAL North America in developing rigorous research on economic mobility and advise the creation of a racial equity research agenda.

Titled ‘Alliance for Scaling Policy Impact through Research and Evidence’ (ASPIRE), the initiative will help governments overcome the policy challenges that hinder poverty eradication. 

New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia and Veddis Foundation announced the launch of the Alliance for Scaling Policy Impact through Research and Evidence (ASPIRE) today

Students experiencing discrimination and living through the pandemic have something in common: feeling isolated. It’s a topic being explored in a paper by senior math and economics major Fiona Chen on remote learning and its effect on academic performance. Chen is using support from the MindHandHeart Innovation Fund and a Peter J. Eloranta Fellowship to perform on a study on how Covid-19 and students’ online activities affect their productivity. “As the Covid-19 pandemic continues, it’s...