BISP to collaborat with MIT

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1 HOME PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT TRENDING YEAR-ENDER SPECIAL PANAMA PAPERS PTI NAWAZ SHARIF TOP NEWS PAKISTAN BISP to collaborat with MIT to strengthen evidence based policy making By Web Desk Posted on January 18, 20 SEARCH Type search term and press enter POLL What do you see as major reason of Pakistan's defeat in the ODI series against Australia? Poor captaincy Players tness Lack of strategy

2 ISLAMABAD: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and strengthen evidence based policy making. All of the above None of the above Results Vote Minister of State and Chairperson BISP Marvi Memon speaking on the occasion stated that the collaboration would be valuable as it is important to base decisions on real evidence in order to best utilize our resources for the bene t of the poor. She further added that the research would look into the mechanisms to help include the ultra poor and would delve into effective strategies to encourage graduation in BISP. MUST READ Eating burnt toast and potatoes may increase cancer risk Countries in the world with no army: Did you know? This would help make innovative decisions to uplift maximum number of bene ciaries from poverty in future. She urged the researchers to also take e- commerce into account while designing poverty exit strategies. Trump vows to cherish a beautiful letter left by Obama WATCH: 19 buildings in China blown up in just 10 seconds TO TOP

3 The internationally renowned social protection researchers, Professor Ben Olken (MIT), Professor Rema Hanna ARCHIVE January 2017 M T W T F S S (Harvard University) and Dr. Adnan Khan (London School of Economics) would collaborate with BISP and assist with policy relevant research This would provide insights into BISP policy design by using data analytics to help provide descriptive insights «DEC into the functioning of BISP, develop eld evaluations to test policy innovations, knowledge transfers and capacity building through academic collaboration and would take innovative lessons worldwide in order to help other countries learn from BISP experiences. The researchers will particularly focus on targeting and enrollment of BISP, complementary graduation programs and policy impacts and would assess the impacts of BISP on economic and social outcomes particularly on child health. TO TOP Professor Rema Hanna from Harvard University appreciated BISP as one of the top social safety nets as more than 119 countries have at

4 least one Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) programme. She stated this would provide BISP advice on new National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER), conduct analysis of NSER pilot data, infant mortality, labor supply and education and design eld experiments. Mr. Ali Cheema, Program Design Committee BISP, stated that BISP is the custodian of a rich data that can be effectively used for better decision making. He said that there is strong need for BISP to generate its own evidence on the right policies and programs speci c to the Pakistani context, and the collaboration would help BISP to utilize the data in effective policy making. Share 0 Share Tweet COMMENTS 0 comments TO TOP RELATED ITEMS: BISP, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MARVI MEMON, MIT, MOU, POLICY MAKING

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