Justin Sandefur has edited an e-book for the Center for Global Development, including six essays with comments, entitled Schooling for All: Feasible Strategies to Achieve Universal Education.

The researchers -- including Justin Sandefur of the Center for Global Development and Abhishek Anand of Harvard University -- believed that the first wave appeared to have been more lethal than what was popularly believed.

On the CGD blog, Justin Sandefur summarizes two recent approaches to attempting to measure what has happened to poverty in India that reach very different conclusions from one another. “From a technical perspective, this debate is interesting because the data are so bad. If the data were good, there...

But the debate may also prompt a reconsideration of longstanding assumptions in poverty alleviation. Justin Sandefur at the Center for Global Development told us there’s an “inevitable presumptuousness that comes with philanthropy,” where rich donors and philanthropies are making decisions on b...

In 2016, Liberia embarked on a radical educational experiment. At a stroke, the government outsourced 93 primary schools, covering 8.6 per cent of state pupils, to eight private organisations.

Following its underwhelming response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the damaging “Doing Business” scandal, the World Bank should focus on getting money to poor countries. Here, the Bank can distinguish itself by providing governments with both concessional loans and untied aid.