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POLICY PAPERS
The Future of UK Global Health Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
Peter Baker
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Lydia Regan
November 30, 2023
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Women's Underrepresentation in IFI Leadership
Eeshani Kandpal et al.
November 27, 2023
TESTIMONY
EU-Africa Strategy: State of Play
Mikaela Gavas
November 24, 2023
CGD NOTES
Australia-Tuvalu Climate and Migration Agreement Takeaways and Next Steps
Sam Huckstep
and
Helen Dempster
December 04, 2023

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Investing in Human Capital to Attract Private Investment in Infrastructure
W. Gyude Moore
August 23, 2023
Across several African countries, there has been a troubling trend of infrastructure being stripped to sell as scrap metal. People have been arrested for ripping out and selling rail sleepers in South Africa and Ghana, pylon and copper wires in Uganda, and streetlamp meters in Liberia. That strippin...
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Studying School Exams: A New Database
Jack Rossiter
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Maimouna Konate
December 15, 2022
Exam data are closely guarded and there is very little research from lower-income countries on how exams influence educational or economic outcomes. Our new database on public examinations begins to fill this gap.
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Do High-Stakes Exams Promote Consistent Educational Standards?
Jack Rossiter et al.
May 12, 2021
Each year over two million secondary-school students across English-speaking West Africa sit coordinated exams, with the explicit goal of maintaining consistent educational standards across schools and over time. We find that scores across math items drawn from different exam years—when taken by an ...
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“Tens of Millions” to “Hundreds of Millions”: Synthetic Credit to Enable Private Funding for Infrastructure in Low-Income Countries
W. Gyude Moore
April 08, 2021
As the Biden administration turns its attention to infrastructure legislation in the United States, it is important to focus on the role investment in infrastructure financing can play in the recovery. This note covers a policy proposal for a credit enhancement instrument, using concessional financi...
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Link It, Open It, Use It: Changing How Education Data Are Used to Generate Ideas
Jack Rossiter
September 14, 2020
In this note, I discuss a new approach to how national administrative education data—records of school census, public exams, school inspection, teacher payroll, and other operational matters, collected on routine basis—are integrated, shared, and used to generate knowledge.
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Planning for School Reopening and Recovery After COVID-19
Shelby Carvalho et al.
May 29, 2020
Most governments around the world have temporarily closed schools in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. As they start to plan for reopening, we have compiled a series of short and accessible briefs that provide the best available rigorous evidence on five critical dimensions ...
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