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WORKING PAPERS
September 17, 2024
Globally, women’s share in corporate leadership has been steadily rising, including in India. The female director mandate under The Companies Act (2013) in India marked a significant step toward gender-inclusive corporate leadership, requiring listed firms to have at least one woman on their board. ...
Blog Post
September 17, 2024
The Companies Act (2013) implemented in 2015 marked a turning point for the presence of women directors in corporate India. In just a year after the Act was implemented, the percentage of listed firms without women on boards dropped from 53 percent to under 10 percent, highlighting the policy's imme...
Blog Post
September 17, 2024
This spring, while watching children in rural Zambia excitedly cluster in groups on their classroom floor to chalk out different strategies to solve three-digit multiplication problems, I thought about the journey that had brought an innovative method of teaching (Teaching at the Right Level or TaRL...
Blog Post
September 03, 2024
India is among the worst countries in the world on the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index, ranking 129th in 2024. Representation of girls and women in textbooks is a natural complement to ongoing successful efforts to increase gender parity in schools. This blog analysis gender bias in textbook...
CGD NOTES
June 17, 2024
The implementation of evidence-based medicine (EBM) relies on organizations to identify, develop, and apply evidence-based practices. While healthcare professionals often engage with service providers like hospitals and insurers for EBM implementation, they may be less familiar with organizations fo...
CGD NOTES
June 17, 2024
Countries pursuing universal health coverage must set priorities to determine which benefits to add to a national health prog ram, but the roles that organizations play are less understood. This article investigates the case of the formation of an organization with a mandate for choice of technology...
Blog Post
December 14, 2023
The low quality of health care services has become a primary concern globally and for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that have made bold commitments to progress toward universal health coverage. Despite improvements, an estimated five million deaths could be averted globally through better...
Blog Post
September 22, 2023
We’ve updated our 2022 working paper with Laura Moscoviz on long run trends in education quality with several new surveys from around the world. Notably, a new survey round for India (NFHS-5) casts doubt on earlier data (NFHS-3). Dropping the suspect data, India’s current learning levels are unchang...
Blog Post
September 08, 2023
As the G20 India Summit approaches, India is taking a central seat on the global stage. While much attention will focus on India’s positive economic accomplishments, some of the spotlight will inevitably be on the country’s slow advances on women’s economic empowerment. On paper, India’s family-frie...
