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IPA Tanzania was honored to host a field visit to Dar es Salaam’s Makumbusho Market for UNSGSA Queen Máxima.

The organizations’ complementary strengths will have a catalytic impact in Bangladesh. IPA’s strong technical capabilities around evaluation and its global network of researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and funders will complement BIGD’s...

When it comes to retail payments, most Tanzanians keep their phones in their pockets and pull-out cash instead—only 5% of Tanzanians have ever used digital retail payments compared to 72% for the average high-income country. 

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) celebrates today’s announcement of Dr. Dean Karlan’s appointment as Chief Economist for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In this role, Dr. Karlan will use insights from randomized...

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is thrilled to announce a gift of $8 million in unrestricted support from novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. IPA will use Ms. Scott’s investment to further its mission of discovering and promoting...

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is delighted to share that we have recently formed a partnership with the Research in Color Foundation (RIC). 

New research from IPA explores the question: in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya, which lender repayment policies were most effective at getting borrowers to repay their loans? To answer this, we examined repayments for over 68,000 loans...

IPA’s Human Trafficking Research Initiative (HTRI) examined the body of evidence to date with a focus on rigorous qualitative and quantitative research to develop the Research and Learning Agenda. While the body of qualitative and descriptive...

People often struggle to follow through on things they want to accomplish. When we try to do something like quit smoking, save money, or exercise, many of us have short-term desires that conflict with our long-term goals. To address this, economists...

To understand how BOB works and how it can be improved, IPA and the BSP analyzed the first year of chatbot data: 1,372,534 messages between BOB and consumers from August 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021.

Given the fast growth of BNPL and the known risks consumer lending can raise, this may be an area where new research could help understand the benefits and risks of BNPL to form appropriate policies in the future. 

In this final installment of our RECOVR Roundup series, we are sharing highlights from our 37 previous volumes.

Data collection in the context of the pandemic posed multiple challenges for researchers. At IPA Colombia, this situation led us to explore and test new tools like WhatsApp surveys. Here we’d like to share some of the specific situations in which...

In this newest installment of our RECOVR Roundup series, we are sharing new findings and analyses from the RECOVR Research Hub and from our partner organizations, as well as links on what is happening in the Social Protection landscape in response...

To develop more effective fraud prevention tools, our research team tested digital finance consumers’ abilities to identify phone scams in Kenya. Our tests found that information campaigns may not be as effective as we once thought. 

In this newest installment of our RECOVR Roundup series, we are sharing new findings and analyses from the RECOVR Research Hub and from our partner organizations, as well as links on what is happening in the Social Protection landscape in response...

There are currently 244 million people worldwide affected by humanitarian crises, including 84 million who have been forcibly displaced. The displacement crisis in countries bordering Ukraine is a reminder of the many ongoing displacement crises...

In this newest installment of our RECOVR Roundup series, we are sharing new findings and analyses from the RECOVR Research Hub and from our partner organizations, as well as links on what is happening in the Social Protection landscape in response...