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WORKING PAPERS
December 17, 2013
This present paper, by Mohammad Niaz Asadullah and Nazmul Chaudhury therefore makes an important contribution to the literature in a key area of CGD concern. Using a representative sample of 2400 households producing data on 3323 children aged 10 to 17 they assess ability to answer simple arithmetic...
Blog Post
December 09, 2013
Donald Kaberuka, the President of the African Development Bank and the leading voice for forward-leaning economic policy on the continent, has come out publicly in favor of paying some portion of natural resource windfalls as a direct dividend to citizens. We’re pretty excited about this polic...
Blog Post
October 29, 2013
My guest on this week’s Global Prosperity Wonkcast is CGD senior fellow Lant Pritchett, whose new book, The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain’t Learning, was released last month and is now available on Kindle. The book addresses a fundamental problem in education: despite great progres...
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12:30—2:00 PM
October 18, 2013
In the first Understanding India Seminar of the fall season Rukmini Banerji will discuss insights on the challenges of scaling up in development. Banerji will share lessons from her notable experience, as the Programme Director of Pratham, one of India’s most successful education non-profits, and as...