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We are thrilled to share news about the launch of the Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (IDEAL), a partnership with the World Bank and other global institutions. IDEAL will allow users to easily search, compare, and visualize the effects of different policy interventions. For more information about IDEAL, please visit our website:

https://www.aidgrade.org/uncategorized/the-impact-data-and-evidence-aggregation-library-ideal

"How much one can extrapolate across settings is critical to understanding what we can take away from any one study."

AidGrade founder Eva Vivalt's interview with Giving What We Can:

“Without this kind of work, we could make fantastically wrong predictions”: An Interview with... If we find that a deworming programme in one region improves school performance, how much have we learned? Should we be confident that a programme carried out by a different organization in another country will have similar effects? Will the programme be equally effective if it’s handed over to the…

Upcoming from AidGrade:

New data and papers | AidGrade New data and papers Posted on October 27, 2014 by admin We have a lot of new results coming out over the next few weeks – watch this space! First up: updated data in the meta-analysis app. Data on 10 new interventions were added: contract teachers; financial literacy; HIV education; irrigation; micr…

Interesting study on the disappointing effects of building toilets in rural India: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health-fitness/article2646315.html

Study: Toilets alone won't fix India sanitation Building toilets in rural India, where hundreds of millions are still defecating outdoors, will not be enough to improve public health, according to a study published Friday.