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How USAID’s Demographic and Health Surveys Overestimate Literacy around the World—and How to Fix That

Justin Sandefur
May 24, 2017
Three cheers for the DHS! However, the value of the DHS literacy data is significantly undermined by a small, easily fixable flaw in the way the survey is administered.
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Gender Matters in Economic Empowerment Interventions: A Research Review - Working Paper 456
Mayra Buvinic
and
Megan O'Donnell
May 22, 2017
A review of the recent evaluation evidence on financial services and training interventions questions their gender neutrality and suggests that some design features in these interventions can yield more positive economic outcomes for women than for men. These include features in savings and ‘G...
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Ivanka Trump Spearheads New Fund for Women Entrepreneurs: Four Questions to Answer Before the Cheers
Cindy Huang
May 08, 2017
At a recent G20 dialogue in Berlin, Angela Merkel unveiled plans for a new fund—spearheaded by Ivanka Trump—to promote women’s entrepreneurship. But given that President Trump’s draft FY2018 budget proposes major cuts across development acco...
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For Faster Education Progress, We Need to Know What Kids Know
Barbara Bruns
and
Eric Hanushek
April 14, 2017
We need an international assessment that will pinpoint educational challenges by providing consistent information on the status of all youth, not just those who have somehow stayed in formal schooling into adolescence. Think of a universal test of nine-year-olds in basic math, reading, and problem s...