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Five priority health areas for the next Nigeria government: how behavioral economics can help achieve them

Health is the base of every prosperous, economically productive nation yet it was not a prominent feature in the conversation leading up to the recent presidential election in Nigeria. Now,…

The Process is the Outcome: testing whether gendered processes create cultural distance for women in the workplace.

Women’s day often brings with it a resurgence of disheartening statistics such as only 1% of venture capital in Africa has gone to female founders, women fill less than 20% of US…

Can TV Teach Children Comprehension

The things we believe about something, whether true or untrue, define our approach towards it. In Europe, for example, the tomato was considered poisonous in the 1700s as it was…

Impact is an Inclusive Goal: Research participants have the answers, you just need to listen

Nobel Prize for pioneering work in developing a theory of radioactivity in 1903. It wasn’t until 1920 that she realized her own work was poisoning her and not until 1925…

Impact is an Inclusive Goal: working with pre-prints to increase access to research

Whether it is increasing access to reliable information in the wake of a pandemic or ensuring more farmers use agricultural insurance, our ultimate aim is to make people’s lives better in real and…

Assembly Line of Success: from the low-hanging fruit to long-term social change

Imagine waking up one morning with a burning desire to bring about social change in the developing world (for some of us, all over again). How many ways can you…

That Voice in Your Ear? It’s Community: establishing community as a pillar for moral decision making in East Africa

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather…

New book marks unprecedented Busara collaboration

Press release New book marks unprecedented Busara collaboration (Nairobi) - February 7, 2023 Busara is announcing the publication of the book, Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of…

Digital credit and gender: understand gendered and other imbalances in digital credit

Misdirection in magic happens when a magician moves the audience in one direction to keep them from seeing or noticing something else. The key to misdirection is that the audience…

Two truths and a lie: an experiment to evaluate behaviors in identifying online misinformation

‘Information pollution’, where facts and figures become a source of division in a society, has a huge impact on behavior, social cohesion, and public trust. When information is false or…