CEGA builds coordinated portfolios of research around issues of demonstrated policy interest.
Each portfolio includes investments in evidence generation as well as capacity-building and policy outreach. The results of our work are synthesized to create actionable insights and tools for decision-makers.
- Access to agricultural technology, information, and financial services can help move millions of smallholder farmers out of poverty.
- Evidence-based research can help achieve development goals, minimize environmental costs, and empower communities to adapt and thrive
- Effective public service delivery, citizen participation, and healthy governance are the building blocks of social and economic development.
- A measure of impact for every dollar spent, cost-effectiveness evidence powers greater impact.
- Innovations in remote sensing, machine learning, and big data enable more accurate, frequent, and granular insights into global poverty & inequality.
- Better tools for managing money can help low-income households save, transact, and grow their businesses.
- Societies flourish when all people, regardless of their gender identity, can participate equally and have access to the resources they need to thrive.
- Investing in local research talent is key to catalyzing evidence-driven policy change around the world.
- Insights from economics and psychology can improve health services and promote positive outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
- O-Lab is the central research hub for UC Berkeley scholars conducting rigorous, data-driven research on social and economic inequality in the U.S.
- By merging insights from engineering and the social sciences, we can harness the power of technology to connect and engage communities in new ways.
- Promoting ethical, transparent, and reproducible research practices can improve the integrity of science and inspire better public policy.
- To achieve shared prosperity, workers need access to high-quality education, creative new job opportunities, and smart social safety nets.
