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Blog Post
December 17, 2009
I am pleased to share with our readers at Owen’s request this discussion of Cash on Delivery Aid, which appeared yesterday on his blog, Owen Abroad.
Linking Aid to Results: Why Are Some Development Workers Anxious?
By Owen Barder
The Center for Global Development is working on an id...
Oct
21
2009
12:00—1:30 PM
October 08, 2009
Abstract: We conduct a randomized evaluation to assess the causal effect of distance on children's academic participation and performance. Based on estimates from a sample of 31 villages and over 1,500 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan, the program significantly increases enrollment and tes...
Oct
7
2009
10:00—11:30 AM
September 29, 2009
Join us as we launch CGD's newest report, Start With A Girl: A New Agenda For Global Health. The report, supported by the Nike Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a complement to the 2008 publication, Girls Count: An Action and Investment Agenda, and is part of a series of publica...
Sep
15
2009
12:00—1:30 PM
September 08, 2009
Abstract: In order to contest elections in Pakistan in 2002, all candidates for Member of National Assembly had to file proof of graduating with a Bachelors degree or higher with their candidacy papers. This policy experiment had the effect of disqualifying 60 of the 207 MNAs elected in the 1997 el...
WORKING PAPERS
August 19, 2009
Efforts to decentralize educational systems often arouse fears that the quality of schooling will become less equal as a result. But what’s the evidence? CGD non-resident fellow Lant Pritchett and co-author Martina Viarengo show in a new CGD working paper that the supposedly greater equality of cent...
Blog Post
July 06, 2009
This post also appeared on the Huffington Post on July 7, 2009.
Leaders of the worlds’ eight richest countries gather this week in Italy for the annual G8 summit. Crowding their agenda will be the financial crisis, climate change, and food security. Education should be high on the agenda, too...
WORKING PAPERS
March 19, 2009
This working paper examines the relationship between high inequality and liberalization of the financial sector in Latin America from 1975 to 2000. Using panel data, the authors find that increases in financial liberalization were associated with bank crises and other domestic and external shocks, ...