Events

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Events

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Oct

4

12:00—1:30 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L St, NW

- Fifth Floor

New Strategy, Next Steps: IMF Engagement on Social Spending

Public spending on social sectors can play a crucial role in inclusive and sustained growth in low- and middle-income countries, and in delivering the health, education, and social protection outcomes to which governments and their partners have comm...

Jun

17

4:00—5:30 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L St, NW

- Fifth Floor

Beyond Getting Girls in School: Addressing Unfinished Business to Achieve Women’s Equality

Over the past two decades tremendous progress has been made to improve girls’ access to schooling. Data on learning similarly shows that gender gaps are closing or largely closed. Yet education systems are still failing to meet one important ob...

Apr

18

9:30—11:00 AM

Center for Global Development

2055 L St, NW

- Fifth Floor

Lessons from East Asia and Pacific: Improved Learning Outcomes, Economic Growth, and Equitable Development

One-quarter of the world’s school-age children live in East Asia and the Pacific. In the past 50 years, some economies in the region have successfully transformed themselves by investing in the knowledge, skills, and abilities of their workforc...

Jun

15

8:30—8:30 AM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

RISE Conference 2017

RISE is a large scale, multi-country research programme developed to answer the question: “How can education systems be reformed to deliver better learning for all?” The objective of this year’s conference is to bring together high ...

Jun

14

4:30—6:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Public-Private Partnerships for Education in the Developing World: Learning Gains, Regulatory Failures, and Other Lessons from Policy Experiments

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in education that combine public finance to provide free or subsidized access to privately delivered education are expanding in many developing countries, either to increase access where government capacity is limit...

Apr

18

9:30—11:00 AM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Demonetization, Digital Identity and Universal Basic Income – How Big Ideas Are Changing India and What It Means for the World

According to The Economist, India's proposal to give every citizen a cash transfer using the digital platform Aadhar could reduce absolute poverty from 22 percent to 0.5 percent. For a country that is home to a third of the world's poor, coul...

Sep

17

9:30—9:30 AM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Does Changing Laws Make a Difference to Outcomes for Women and Girls?

The last few years have seen some significant progress in legal reform worldwide affecting women and girls, from compulsory free primary education and land titling reform to increased legal age of marriage and the introduction of gender violence laws...

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