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Can Outsourcing Improve Liberia's Schools? Preliminary RCT Results

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9/7/17
Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz

Last summer, the Liberian government delegated management of 93 public elementary schools to eight different private contractors. Given the intense controversy around the program, the government—with some encouragement from our colleagues at Ark Education Partnership Group, who helped manage the program—agreed to randomize the allocation of schools during the pilot, and the three of us partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to evaluate its impacts.

Can Outsourcing Improve Liberia’s Schools? - Working Paper 462

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9/6/17

After one year, public schools managed by private contractors in Liberia raised student learning by 60 percent, compared to standard public schools.

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The Electricity Situation in Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities

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8/29/17

In the past decade, Ghana has experienced severe electricity supply challenges even though installed generation capacity has more than doubled over the period. The electricity supply challenges can be attributed to a number of factors, including a high level of losses in the distribution system as well as non-payment of revenue by consumers. Solving Ghana’s electricity challenges would require a range of measures.

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Can a Public-Private Partnership Improve Liberia’s Schools?

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8/24/17

After one year, public schools managed by private operators raised student learning by 60 percent compared to standard public schools. But costs were high, performance varied across operators, and contracts authorized the largest operator to push excess pupils and under-performing teachers into other government schools.

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