COP27: How debt-for-climate swaps can help solve low-income countries' crushing debt and environmental challenges at the same time

Many small island nations are struggling to protect their land from rising seas while also facing paralyzing debt.

Soyoung Oh, Junior Research Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University • conversation
Oct. 31, 2022 ~8 min

Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health

Experts are calling on the government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 30, 2022 ~5 min


Visualizing migration stories

“Distance Unknown,” an exhibition by MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab, documents the often challenging journeys migrants undertake to gain economic opportunity and food security.

School of Architecture and Planning • mit
Sept. 21, 2022 ~6 min

Pakistan’s floods are a disaster – but they didn't have to be

Framing floods as ‘natural disasters’ deflects from the reality that vulnerability must exist before a crisis can emerge.

Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL • conversation
Sept. 20, 2022 ~6 min

Survey: ‘Transportation insecurity’ plagues 1 in 4 US adults

More than a quarter of US adults experience "transportation insecurity," meaning they have no way to get from place to place in a safe or timely manner.

Jared Wadley-Michigan • futurity
Sept. 19, 2022 ~5 min

People resort to risky ways of keeping homes warm

To reduce energy bills, some households use risky coping strategies, including accruing debt, not buying food, and using space heaters, to warm their home.

Ken Bikoff-Indiana • futurity
Sept. 9, 2022 ~4 min

How energy-saving advice can hurt the most vulnerable households

Energy-saving ‘hacks’ risk implying that households are to blame for rising prices by not doing enough to cut their energy use.

Caitlin Robinson, Research Fellow, School of Geographical Science, University of Bristol • conversation
Sept. 8, 2022 ~6 min

Expanded access to solar power in Africa can stimulate economic development – but there are risks

Are studies right that expanded access to off-grid solar products has driven economic development in Africa?

Ben Radley, Lecturer in International Development, University of Bath • conversation
Aug. 12, 2022 ~7 min


J-PAL expands evidence-to-policy government partnerships to fight poverty worldwide

In collaboration with Community Jameel and Co-Impact, rigorous research will inform social policies and programs.

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) • mit
Aug. 9, 2022 ~7 min

J-PAL North America launches two partnership opportunities to research social programs

Evaluation Incubators to provide technical assistance, training, funding to help partners design randomized evaluations of housing stability strategies and state and local programs.

Mera Cronbaugh | Laina Sonterblum | J-PAL North America • mit
Aug. 1, 2022 ~8 min

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