Special Issue: Practical Use and its Direction of the Evidence
Communicate and Use of Evidences in International Development Field:
Movement of J-PAL
2016 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 43-54
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2016 Volume 17 Issue 1 Pages 43-54
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) was established at 2003 and it has conducted over 770 impact evaluations using randomized controlled trial (RCT) since its establishment. Based on the accumulation of the impact evaluation using RCT, J-PAL conducted comprehensive review of a set of impact evaluations at education sector, health sector, political economy & governance sector and prepared four “Policy Lessons” consisting of a set of detailed lessons generated by those reviews. In addition, J-PAL achieved 7 cases of scale-up. This research report focuses what lessons have been actually generated and what scale-up cases have been realized. In addition, this thesis discusses what Japan should learn from the systematic review results and how Japan can conduct more the practice of systematic review and scale-up cases.
