Evidence to policy
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, 2020
Abstract
Well-designed randomized evaluations, when informing policy design, provide general insights about how programs can address poverty, especially when combined with descriptive data, understanding of the local context and institutions, and strong partnerships between implementers, researchers, and donors. Randomized evaluations can also fundamentally reshape understanding of social policies, institutionalize evidence use, lead to adapted program designs, scale evaluated interventions, or discontinue programs found ineffective – AI-generated abstract.
