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The 6 big thinkers reshaping foreign aid, masculinity, and development Meet the Future Perfect 25: The Thinkers

Great to see IPA Founder Dean Karlan featured in @vox.com's Future Perfect 25.

A powerful reminder that evidence, cost-effectiveness, and impact must stay at the center of development efforts.

Read the full feature: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

ClearerThinking.org Podcast | Live at EA Global - The future of U.S. foreign aid (with Dean Karlan) What is the core public interest case for foreign aid beyond soft power? How should we define safety and prosperity? Why do many voters believe aid is a quarter of the budget when it is a tiny fractio...

Dean discusses using evidence to find the best buys in development and how organizations can use cost-effectiveness thinking, live at the EA Global conference. Listen on the Clearer Thinking Podcast:
podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/296/...

One year of global education funding cuts will forgo over $100B in lifetime earnings.

Remaining assistance should prioritize foundational learning, with evidence-based solutions and partnering with national governments for inclusive growth that reduces future aid dependency.

How to Fix Foreign Aid USAID's former Chief Economist reflects on DOGE

www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...

Measuring poverty using mobile phone data: Implications for targeting and impact evaluation In settings where reliable data on poverty is difficult to come by, non-traditional data sources such as mobile phone metadata has the potential to fill data gaps. New research on a cash transfer prog...

🆕 Measuring poverty using mobile phone data: Implications for targeting and impact evaluation

Today on VoxDev w/ Emily Aiken (@cmu.edu), Suzanne Bellue (ENSAE), Joshua Blumenstock (@berkeleyischool.bsky.social), Dean Karlan (Northwestern) & @christopher-udry.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/method...