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Blog Post
April 28, 2022
CGD's Lee Crawfurd and Aisha Ali make the case for free secondary education, arguing that experiences of free primary education shows how free secondary education could work. And Robert Osei and Kwabena Adu-Ababio say free school is pro-poor for countries that can afford it. But Cambridge University...
Blog Post
April 26, 2022
The latest survey data and instruments from the Partnership for Research on Progress and Resilience in Education (PREPARE), covering Ghana, Malawi, and Senegal are now out. Launched by CGD in May 2021, PREPARE data is helping us understand the impact of COVID-19 on education systems. This blog summa...
Blog Post
April 21, 2022
Suppose you’re the minister of education in a lower-middle income country. It’s budget season. You have a meeting tomorrow with the finance minister to make your case for more education spending. You know she’s skeptical that money is really what’s holding your school system back. The World Bank say...