Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL, PAL)
Opportunities Abroad, Public Service
Can academic economists help the world’s most disadvantaged people? Apparently yes. MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) applies academic tools to anti-poverty efforts. The…more
MIT News: International relations and collaborations
Wednesday, March 10
3 Questions: David Miliband on Afghanistan’s future As U.S.-led forces step up their military efforts in Afghanistan, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has begun urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government to push for a peace…more
Thursday, February 18
New wheelchair gets its first real-world test The U.N. Development Programme estimates that less than 1 percent of the need for wheelchairs in developing countries is met by local production, partly because small workshops can’t exploit…more
Thursday, February 11
MIT's chapter of Engineers Without Borders launches first project MIT students recently established a campus chapter of Engineers Without Borders and adopted their first project: providing electricity and clean water to a health clinic in southern Uganda. But in…more
Wednesday, February 10
A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud? Although December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was widely portrayed as a failure, some speakers at an MIT panel discussion on Friday, Feb. 5, suggested that its results actually…more
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