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Blog Post
June 10, 2022
Why do so few studies measure maternal mental health in the context of ECD interventions? First, researchers focused on early childhood may not have a familiarity with the best instruments for measuring maternal mental health. Second, studies focused on ECD may have so much of their limited survey t...
Blog Post
May 12, 2022
Girls today are getting more education than ever before. But many girls are still being left behind. How can societies ensure they go the last mile when it comes to guaranteeing all girls have access to primary school, or the last hundred miles when it comes to quality education and access to second...
Blog Post
April 28, 2022
In the past two years, we have all learned that the end of a COVID-19 wave is the end of a chapter, not the end of the story. Ongoing COVID transmission means the risk of new variants of pandemic potential is ever present and vaccination remains our best defence. The primary near-term challenges for...
Blog Post
April 22, 2022
COVID-19 has reinforced the need for strong regulatory systems. The success of new technologies rapidly developed to mitigate the pandemic depends in no small part on key regulatory functions, such as oversight for clinical trials; review and authorization of medical products like vaccines, treatmen...
Blog Post
March 18, 2022
This week was the Centre for the Study of African Economies’ annual conference. It included more than a hundred papers on topics ranging from bureaucracy to trade and from political economy to deforestation. It’s a great collection of novel work from researchers around the world, including many who ...