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Origins, evolution and future of global development cooperation - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
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Coronapod: why stopping COVID testing would be a mistake
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This🧵is about a tricky problem in education
The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate
We have two new papers showing that this can be changed
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The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate
We have two new papers showing that this can be changed
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Here are the papers, one in the Journal of Development Economics
(sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)
and one in the Journal of Public Economics (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)
Our tl;dr message:
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(sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)
and one in the Journal of Public Economics (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)
Our tl;dr message:
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The problem: most prior research finds that the best we could hope for from educational interventions in these places is small to medium learning gains
We show: with the right inputs, we can achieve much larger learning gains in these places than previously thought possible
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We show: with the right inputs, we can achieve much larger learning gains in these places than previously thought possible
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