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December 15, 2023
The poster at the back of the fourth grade classroom asked, “what is your dream?” On cutout paper clouds students had written “doctor”, “teacher”, “football star”, but one in particular caught my attention, “to build a house for my mother.” My throat choked, imagining how precarious this child’s hom...
WORKING PAPERS
April 11, 2023
This paper focuses on the content and implementation of reforms to raise teacher quality in Peru in the period 2007-2020 in the hope that other countries facing the same challenges can benefit from this experience. We conclude with reflections on how education policy and education politics have cont...
Blog Post
April 11, 2023
It is now 10 years since Jaime Saavedra became the education minister of Peru and 7 years since he left that position. This blog summarizes key insights from a new paper with former Minister Saavedra—reflections on what Peru has achieved in education over the past 15 years, what else might have been...
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February 08, 2022
One-fifth of the global population under the age of 25 now resides in rapidly growing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the world’s youngest region. With the right education and training, this population could be a great asset for development and provide a comparative advantage in world markets. However, hi...
Blog Post
January 13, 2022
A massive leak that disrupted Peru’s national teacher selection test threatens the country’s impressive improvements in learning.
Over the eight years prior to the pandemic, the most respected international tests show that Peru made more progress in education than any other country in Latin...
Blog Post
June 30, 2021
The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is the $60 billion agency that’s supposed to catalyze investment to capital-starved countries, bolster job-creation in emerging markets, and support US foreign policy. The BUILD Act which created the DFC was a bipartisan bill, carefully craf...
Blog Post
May 07, 2019
Josef Ritzen, the Netherlands’ education minister for eight years before he joined the World Bank, once told me: “The view of a prime minister is that an education minister only brings problems. There’s nothing he or she can do to improve quality that has a political upside. So, mo...