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Blog Post
June 05, 2024
Addressing the unprecedented levels of irregular migration requires a fundamental shift in understanding the problem: People come whenever there are jobs to be filled in the American economy. It is true today, and it has been true for decades. That is main finding from my new study analyzing nearly ...
Blog Post
June 03, 2024
As the largest international source of education financing, the World Bank funds a wide range of activities, from school construction to international assessments. Specifically, 602 education projects approved between 1998 and 2017 have financed 139 different types of activities, as per the Bank's i...
Blog Post
April 30, 2024
Children around the world continue to face unacceptably high levels of corporal punishment in school and at home, with rates surpassing 90 percent in some places. It is one of the most common, widely accepted and preventable forms of violence. The education sector must ensure that bans are introduce...
Blog Post
April 16, 2024
Last month The Gambia’s National Assembly advanced a bill that, if ratified, would make it the first country to overturn a ban on female genital mutilation. These moves—supported by the predominantly male legislature—reflect the precarious nature of gains made in gender equality and have implication...
Blog Post
April 11, 2024
How schools are managed––things like budgets, staffing, and planning––matters for school effectiveness and children’s learning. But how easy is it to improve this (at scale) in poor countries? In a new CGD working paper we evaluate the impact of a large-scale school leader training programme impleme...
Blog Post
March 25, 2024
A new institutional strategy for the years 2024–2030 was just approved by the Board of Governors at the annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This comes one year after Ilan Goldfajn assumed the presidency of the organization with a commitment to establish clear priorities and ...