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Blog Post
April 11, 2024
How schools are managed––things like budgets, staffing, and planning––matters for school effectiveness and children’s learning. But how easy is it to improve this (at scale) in poor countries? In a new CGD working paper we evaluate the impact of a large-scale school leader training programme impleme...
WORKING PAPERS
April 11, 2024
This study investigates the short-term impacts of a school leadership professional development program implemented in 525 randomly selected schools across Rwanda from 2018 to 2019. The program aimed to enhance the skills of school headteachers in leadership, management, and teacher support. Although...
Jul
9
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:00—5:00 PM EDT
March 15, 2024
The World Bank Group’s Annual Conference on Development Economics—ABCDE—is a key forum to stimulate an exchange of ideas between leaders in global policy discussions and policymakers from the Bank’s member countries. The 2024 ABCDE will be co-sponsored by the Center for Global Development.
Blog Post
February 19, 2024
One of the few silver linings from Brexit for the UK has been the increase in non-EU migration. But this has led to renewed concerns about a “brain drain”, the notion that the exodus of skilled workers from poorer countries will leave them unable to meet their own development goals. Yet these concer...
Feb
28
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 3:00-4:30 PM GMT
January 25, 2024
How can the intersection of gender and diversity in international financial institution (IFIs) leadership foster more effective and inclusive development outcomes? In the second session of our Gender in IFIs series, we explore the internal culture and external complexities of the international devel...