Recognizing that education is a lynchpin of development, CGD investigates promising new approaches for rich countries to improve education outcomes in the poorer world. CGD research in this area focuses on the benefits of educating girls, the effectiveness of global education programs, strategies for achieving universal primary education, and the potential application of Cash on Delivery (COD) aid to the education sector.
Recognizing that education is a lynchpin of development, CGD investigates promising new approaches for rich countries to improve education outcomes in the poorer world. CGD research in this area focuses on the benefits of educating girls, the effectiveness of global education programs, strategies for achieving universal primary education, and the potential application of Cash on Delivery (COD) aid to the education sector.
Work includes the following:
- Cash on Delivery Aid, a proposal by Nancy Birdsall and Bill Savedoff for donors to pay for measurable progress on specific outcomes pre-agreed with recipient governments. The book Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid with an Application to Primary Schooling will be published in 2010.
- A report by Ruth Levine and colleagues entitled Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda explains why and how to initiate effective investments to empower adolescent girls in developing countries.
- Research led by Desmond Bermingham on aid effectiveness in the education sector looks particularly at the Education for All–Fast Track Initiative, including his paper, Reviving the Global Education Compact: Four Options for Global Education Funding.
- Aid for Education: More Bang for the Buck, a chapter by Kate Vyborny and Nancy Birdsall in The White House and the World urges the United States to support a significant international effort to expand high-quality primary schooling in low-income countries.
- Inexcusable Absence by Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed highlights that nearly three-quarters of the 60 million girls not in school belong to ethnic, religious, linguistic, racial, or other minorities. It draws on detailed analysis to offer concrete proposals for new policies and programs that directly address this exclusion.
- Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World, a companion volume to Inexcusable Absence, analyzes the determinants of school enrollment, completion, and learning in seven countries to increase understanding of impediments to universal primary education.
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For the first time, the elderly, urban populations, and women of reduced fertility outnumber their counterparts. Joel E. Cohen discusses how changing demographic trends will require a heavier focus on primary and secondary education, reproductive health and demographically sensitive urban planning.
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I'm joined this week by Ayah Mahgoub, a program coordinator here at the Center for Global Development who works on issues related to the effectiveness of foreign aid. Along with Nancy Birdsall and Bill Savedoff, Ayah is working on designing a new form of development assistance called Cash on...
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Cynthia B. Lloyd, Ruth Levine, and Miriam Temin, authors of reports in CGD’s Girls Count series, call on Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, to push for global and national action to increase the commitment and funding to support adolescent girls’ education. Increasing girls’ chances of...
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In this essay, visiting fellow Desmond Bermingham describes the framework for a better “global education compact” between donor and recipient nations and four possible arrangements to mobilize and allocate development assistance for education. He highlights the advantages and disadvantages of...
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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...
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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,...
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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. President Barack Obama are both committed to boosting funding for global education. CGD visiting fellow Desmond Bermingham, the former head of the Education for All–Fast Track Initiative, offers suggestions about making the most of additional U.S....
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Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report, and a senior political analyst for CNN, David Gergen joined CGD president Nancy Birdsall, and CGD senior fellows who authored essays in our...
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The debate on user fees in health and education has been contentious, but until recently much of the evidence has been anecdotal. Does charging poor people for health and education services improve or impede access? CGD non-resident fellow Michael Kremer and co-author Alaka Holla survey the...
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The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus fostering greater stability, security, and prosperity globally and at home. Center for Global...
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The wellbeing of adolescent girls in developing countries shapes global economic and social prosperity -- yet girls' needs often are consigned to the margins of development policies and programs. This new report describes why and how to provide adolescent girls in developing countries a full and...
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Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report, and a senior political analyst for CNN, David Gergen joined CGD president Nancy Birdsall, and CGD senior fellows who authored essays in our...
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The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President shows how modest changes in U.S. policies could greatly improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, thus fostering greater stability, security, and prosperity globally and at home. Center for Global...
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For the first time, the elderly, urban populations, and women of reduced fertility outnumber their counterparts. Joel E. Cohen discusses how changing demographic trends will require a heavier focus on primary and secondary education, reproductive health and demographically sensitive urban planning.
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Girls have achieved remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade, yet millions are still not in school. In Inexcusable Absence, CGD visiting fellows Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed reported the startling new finding that nearly three-quarters of out-of-school girls belong to...
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Given all the other pressing worries, why was education among the issues that G8 leaders discussed at the St. Petersburg Summit? Education and the Developing World, a CGD Rich World/Poor World Brief, explains why investing in education is not just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do....
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are unlikely to be met by 2015, even if huge increases in development assistance materialize. The rates of progress required by many of the goals are at the edges of or beyond historical precedent. Many countries making...
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Girls' education is widely recognized as crucial to development. Yet there has been surprisingly little hardheaded analysis about what is keeping girls out of school, and how to overcome these barriers. In Inexcusable Absence, Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed present new research showing that...
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Many poor countries, especially in Africa, will miss the MDGs by a large margin. But neither African inaction nor a lack of aid will necessarily be the reason. Instead, responsibility for near-certain ‘failure’ lies with the overly-ambitious goals themselves and unrealistic expectations placed...
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This work quantifies how long it has taken countries rich and poor to make the transition towards high enrollments and gender parity. It finds that many countries that have not raised enrollments fast enough to meet the Millennium Development Goals have in fact raised enrollments extraordinarily...
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Desmond Bermingham, Former Visiting Fellow Desmond Bermingham has worked in the education sector as a teacher, teacher trainer, and senior education adviser in the UK and globally for over 20 years and is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he is conducting research on aid effectiveness and education. As...
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Nancy Birdsall, President An internationally recognized expert on the impact of rich-country policies on poor people in developing countries, Nancy Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and over 100 articles in scholarly journals and monographs, published in English and Spanish. Her most...
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James Habyarimana, Non-Resident Fellow James Habyarimana joined the center in September 2004 just after completing his doctoral studies in development economics at Harvard University. His main research in graduate school touched on the role of public finance in improving educational outcomes in Zambia, the disease environment as a...
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Michael Kremer, Non-Resident Fellow Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the department of economics at Harvard University, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. Kremer’s recent research examines education and health in developing...
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Ruth Levine, Former Vice President for Programs and Operations, and Senior Fellow Ruth Levine is an internationally recognized expert on global health and health policy. She is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience designing and assessing the effects of social sector programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. In addition to...
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Lant Pritchett, Non-Resident Fellow Lant Pritchett is professor of the Practice of International Development and faculty chair of the Masters in Public Policy in International Development program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Prior to returning the Kennedy School, he was lead socio-economist in the social development...
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Raymond Robertson, Non-Resident Fellow Raymond Robertson is professor of economics and director of the Latin American Studies program at Macalester College. His research focuses on the effects of globalization on labor markets, particularly in developing countries. Following graduation from Trinity, he spent a year on a Fulbright grant...
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William Savedoff, Senior Fellow Bill Savedoff has been working for more than 20 years on economic and social development issues. His work is focused on finding ways to improve the quality of social services in developing countries, with particular attention to incentives, institutions, and political economy. His most recent book...
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Sarah Jane Staats, Director of Policy Outreach Sarah Jane Staats is responsible for engaging the development policy community - especially senior staff in the U.S. Congress, the administration, and policy experts in leading development advocacy NGOs - in the Center's research and other programs. This week, on the Global Prosperity Wonkcast, she...
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Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development
- Jul 26, 2010
For the first time, the elderly, urban populations, and women of reduced fertility outnumber their counterparts. Joel E. Cohen discusses how changing demographic trends will require a heavier focus on primary and secondary education, reproductive health and demographically sensitive urban planning.
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Making 2010 a Watershed Year for Adolescent Girls' Education
- Feb 17, 2010
Cynthia B. Lloyd, Ruth Levine, and Miriam Temin, authors of reports in CGD’s Girls Count series, call on Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, to push for global and national action to increase the commitment and funding to support adolescent girls’ education. Increasing girls’ chances of...
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Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda
- Jan 14, 2008
The wellbeing of adolescent girls in developing countries shapes global economic and social prosperity -- yet girls' needs often are consigned to the margins of development policies and programs. This new report describes why and how to provide adolescent girls in developing countries a full and...
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Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World
- Sep 24, 2007
Girls have achieved remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade, yet millions are still not in school. In Inexcusable Absence, CGD visiting fellows Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed reported the startling new finding that nearly three-quarters of out-of-school girls belong to...
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Education and the Developing World
- Jun 12, 2006
Given all the other pressing worries, why was education among the issues that G8 leaders discussed at the St. Petersburg Summit? Education and the Developing World, a CGD Rich World/Poor World Brief, explains why investing in education is not just the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do....
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What's Wrong with the Millennium Development Goals?
- Sep 12, 2005
Many poor countries, especially in Africa, will miss the MDGs by a large margin. But neither African inaction nor a lack of aid will necessarily be the reason. Instead, responsibility for near-certain ‘failure’ lies with the overly-ambitious goals themselves and unrealistic expectations placed...
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Making it Pay to Stay in School
- Aug 3, 2005
This CGD brief is based on the book From Social Assistance to Social Development: Targeted Education Subsidies in Developing Countries, by Samuel Morley and David Coady.
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No Child Left Behind-Anywhere
- Mar 3, 2005
"No Child Left Behind" could move from a national program to a global mission if several current policies and initiatives converge: the Education for All Fast Track Initiative, the U.S. Millennium
Challenge Account, and the renewed declarations of the Bush administration, supported by U.S. public...
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On the Road to Universal Primary Education
- Feb 28, 2005
Education is an end in itself, a human right, and a vital part of the capacity of individuals to lead lives they value. It gives people in developing countries the skills they need to improve their own lives and to help transform their societies. Women and men with better education earn more...
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Washington Contentious: Economic Policies for Social Equity in Latin America
- Jan 1, 2001
At the end of the 1990s the future of Latin America seemed grim in the face of four devastating problems—slow and unsteady economic growth, persistent poverty, social injustice, and personal insecurity. For 10 years Latin America had pursued—with considerable vigor—the 10 economic policies...
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Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda
The agenda describes why and how to provide adolescent girls in developing countries a full and equal chance in life. It offers targeted recommendations for national and local governments, donor agencies, civil society, and the private sector.
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Iraq is rich in oil but surprisingly poor in human capital. Oil is a mixed blessing at best, a curse at worst. Among countries rich in oil are many that have failed at economic or political development or both: Angola, Nigeria, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia. Human capital, on the other hand, is an unmitigated blessing. It’s been central to the economic transformation of resource-poor countries, including Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and now China, and in the larger sense of what development is fundamentally about, it’s an end in itself. Indeed, you might say that education and health, the most straightforward indicators of human capital at the individual level, are the point of development.
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