Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( J -LAB ) ( often short Poverty Action Lab) is a US-based research center that institutionally at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ) is native and the application of research results in the fight against poverty is dedicated, the based on randomized field experiments.

History

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab was founded in 2003 by Professors Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan at the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Concept of the Poverty Action Lab was to launch one more field experiments in the field of poverty research, conduct and evaluate, on the other, but also to actively promote the use of randomized field experiments in the research, thus ensuring the quality of research and ultimately the effectiveness of development policy measures to increase. After its inception, the Poverty Action Lab began a partnership with the NGO run by Dean Karlan Innovations for Poverty Action.

In the coming years, a number of training programs are started (including the U.S., India, 2005; Nigeria in 2007, France in 2008, Chile in 2009 ) and a number of foreign branches opened (J- PAL South Asia 2007, J -PAL Europe 2008, J -PAL Latin America 2009; J -PAL Africa 2010 ). 2007 launches J -PAL together with the Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum, a public health initiative called Deworm the World, directed against worm parasites in developing countries.

2012, about 70 professors with the Poverty Action Lab together in various developmental and economic development areas.

Programs

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab has developmental programs with research background in the areas of agriculture, education, environment and energy, finance and microfinance, health, labor markets, and political economy and governance. By 2012, the Poverty Action Lab could have 352 ongoing or completed projects in 52 countries. As part of the training programs to 2012 1014 people were trained.

Financing

The starting means required to establish the Poverty Action Lab were by the Department of Economics and the School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences at MIT provided. A significant advancement in the form of three research grants took place in 2005 by Abdul Latif Jameel, an alumnus of the MIT This promotion gives reason for renaming of the Poverty Action Lab at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in memory of the late father of the patron. 2006 is replaced by the Poverty Action Lab further funds by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Nike Foundation, Russ Siegelman and Doug B. Marshall Jr. Foundation. Additional funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Nike Foundation each of the Urban Services Initiative and the Youth Initiative of the Poverty Action Lab benefit.

Awards

In 2008, the Poverty Action Lab received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the BBVA Foundation for his achievements in the development cooperation.