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Blog Post
December 18, 2020
This blog proposes some critical steps—many of which are long overdue—that international financial institutions (IFIs) and multilateral development banks (MDBs) must take if their money is to work more effectively to support African countries recover from the pandemic’s fallout.
Blog Post
December 17, 2020
With increased focus on the shortfall inlearning outcomes around the world (the “learning crisis”!), one might assume that just about every child is in school, or at least that every young child is in primary school. But sadly, that’s not the case: in low-income countries, just two-thirds of childre...
Blog Post
November 09, 2020
Last weekend was the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. Researchers presented about 225 papers on a wide range of development topics, from agriculture and credit to tax and transport. We’ve prepared a brief takeaway from each paper that we could find online.