The Odisha Government on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Abdul Latif Jameel.
Poverty Action Lab, South Asia, to engage in a strategic evidence-based approach to policy making to maximise impact on anti-poverty programmes of the State across a wide range of sectors.
Odisha Government is the first State in the country to have entered into partnership with J-PAL.
After its founder and co-founder Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo got the Nobel prize for Economics this year for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.