How Has Development Cooperation Been Transformed by the Surge in Rigorous Evidence? What Can We Do Better?

Placing Evidence and Innovation at the Heart of Development Policy

Dean Karlan, Arianna Legovini, Thomas Melonio & Charlotte Watts

Moderated by Esther Duflo (Professor, Collège de France, MIT; J-PAL Director).

Speaker(s)

Professor, Northwestern University; Chief Economist, USAID

Director, Development Impact Evaluation, World Bank

Executive Director of Innovation, Strategy, and Research, Agence Française de Développement

Chief Scientific Adviser and Director for Research and Evidence, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office