On October 7, IPA Founder and President, Dean Karlan presented the results of the study “Increasing Voluntary Retirement Contributions in Colombia” at Universidad Javeriana to a wide audience of academics from local universities, policymakers such Colpensiones and the Superintendencia Financiera, as well as the private pension funds and others.Professor Karlan then presented preliminary results from a research project in Ghana at the academic seminar at the Economics Department at the Universidad de los Andes.

Recent studies of community security and peacebuilding efforts have found that relatively inexpensive interventions can move the needle on measures of intergroup trust and social capital, even when far more intensive programs have failed to do so.

On September 19, Nana Ya, Education Officer at the Ghana Education Service; Adrienne Lucas, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware; and Renaud Comba, Research & Policy Manager at IPA Ghana facilitated a workshop at UKFIET, The Education and Development Forum.The workshop, titled "Evidence to policy in education: Practical tools for co-creating education research with governments," provided policymakers, researchers, and practitioners with theoretical frameworks and practical tools for co-creating rigorous, policy-relevant education researchwith theoretical frameworks and practical tools for creating rigorous, policy-relevant education research.Learn more on the UKFIET website here.