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- Case study
- 24th Jan 2019
Tackling tuberculosis in Moldova
There are still 1.6 million tuberculosis (TB) related deaths a year around the world despite the availability of effective treatment.
- Case study
- 24th Jan 2019
Building capacity and ensuring timely tax returns
Working with the Indonesian Tax Authority (Direktorat Jenderal Pajak, or DJP) on our second project together, we ran our largest randomised controlled trial with 11.2 million taxpayers.
- Report
- 28th Mar 2019
International development and behavioural insights
This report is a summary of international development work by the Behavioural Insights Team and its partners from 2017 to 2019.
- Blog
- 28th Mar 2019
Applying behavioural insights to international development
We’re often asked whether behavioural insights are relevant across different cultures and economies. After running projects with governments and organisations in more than 20 low and middle income countries - work summarised in our new report, out today - it’s a question we’re increasingly confident in answering: yes. Behavioural insights…
- Blog
- 13th May 2019
Can BI help tackle one of the world's top killers?
The Republic of Moldova, which has the highest incidence of TB in Europe, follows a treatment strategy called Directly-observed therapy (DOT). Under DOT TB patients are required by law to come to a clinic daily to take their medication under the supervision of a TB nurse. The strategy was based…
- Report
- 28th Aug 2019
Evaluating Leadership and Management Programmes
Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face a number of constraints to growth. Studies highlight the difficulty of accessing credit, fragmented markets, poor management practices, lack of infrastructure and an uncertain regulatory environment. Addressing barriers such as these could contribute to growth, productivity and job creation across SSA. CDC Group plc…
- Blog
- 2nd Oct 2019
A partnership to reduce social security arrears
One of the most cost-effective ways of scaling the use of behavioural insights (BI) around the world is by building BI capacity. BIT does this by running projects in close collaboration with partner organisations.
- Blog
- 15th Oct 2019
Humble Empiricists win the Nobel Prize in Economics!
A huge congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer who have just won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics.
- Academic publication
- 15th Oct 2019
Preventing violence against children in schools (PVACS)
Abstract Background We aim to test the effectiveness of the EmpaTeach intervention to prevent physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania. EmpaTeach is a 10-week, 14-session, classroom management and cognitive-behavioural therapy-based intervention for groups of teachers for delivery by lay personnel in resource-constrained settings. Methods We…
- Report
- 22nd Oct 2019
Increasing volunteer retention in West Java
The aim of this project was to encourage volunteers to take a more active role in the local government’s ‘Eco Village’ programme. We designed a two-arm randomised controlled trial, through which we tested longer monthly messages about environmental challenges (Treatment 1) compared to short, weekly messages that drew on behavioural…