The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a world-leader in conducting randomized policy evaluations for development economics research. These evaluations provide strong and useful policy recommendations and the IGC will be a key partner in both as regards research and in bringing J-PAL research findings into policy. The IGC will embed J-PAL in a global network of growth researchers, and help to feed the lessons of their research into the country networks that the IGC will build. J-PAL has a firm footprint in South Asia and Africa (with a South Asia office in Chennai). There is therefore significant scope for cross-fertilization between J-PAL and other network partners particularly in Africa and South Asia, through the bridging role of the IGC network. J-PAL also has a well-deserved reputation for its work in capacity building, especially in the conduct of randomized evaluations, and these capability spillovers will significantly improve the quality of research done elsewhere in the IGC network.