GIW 2017

Hundreds of millions of people across the developing world have benefited from evidence-based innovation. However, the link between research, on the one hand, and policy change and concrete impact for the lives of the poor, on the other hand, is complex and rarely follows a linear path. Over the last decade, we have learned a lot about how research and innovation are and are not incorporated into policy and practice. Join Rachel Glennerster, a leading development economist and Executive Director of J-PAL, to hear lessons learned for moving from effective research to action from J-PAL’s nearly two decades of examples across sectors, including innovation scale-ups enabled by U.S. foreign assistance.

Watch the video here.