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Blog Post
March 21, 2024
As many developing countries approach universal enrollment in primary school, the World Bank has emerged as one of the most prominent advocates for a pivot “from schooling access to learning outcomes” in recent decades. The most recent education strategy of the Bank, adopted in 2011, emphasizes the ...
WORKING PAPERS
March 21, 2024
Since 2011, the World Bank’s education strategy has emphasized the need to shift focus from schooling to learning, and towards primary education with special attention to foundational skills. But this shift is not always easy to see in the actual lending data. Coding new details on 25 years of World...
Nov
20
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:30—11:00 AM ET / 2:30-4:00 PM GMT
November 06, 2023
In this seminar, a team of researchers at CGD and others will present new analysis of USAID's evaluation portfolio, quantifying the impacts on pupils' reading outcomes and examining the cost-effectiveness of American aid. The presentation will be followed by a discussion of policy implications and b...
Feb
1
2023
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:00 AM ET
January 24, 2023
During this one-hour event hosted by the Center for Global Development, Courtenay Cabot Venton, Founder of the Share Trust and lead author of the study, will present the findings from the analysis and discuss the implications for the aid sector with other leading experts. We will be joined by Naomi ...
Nov
14
2022
VIRTUAL
8:30—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 1:30—5:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
October 28, 2022
Climate change, conflict, food insecurity, and pandemics. These global challenges are growing in urgency, and complexity—and they are not confined by borders. While wealthy countries are aging and their growth rates are faltering, the traditional manufacturing-led path to rapid growth in poorer coun...
WORKING PAPERS
July 20, 2021
India lacks an authoritative estimate of the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. We report excess mortality estimates from three different data sources from the pandemic’s start through June 2021. Estimating COVID-deaths with statistical confidence may prove elusive. But all estimates suggest tha...
Blog Post
July 20, 2021
The official Covid death count in India as of end-June 2021 is 400,000. The reality is, of course, catastrophically worse. Unlike in other countries, authoritative excess death estimates based on official data have not been available because government recording of deaths, especially at the center, ...