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Blog Post
November 26, 2019
The political and economic crisis in Venezuela has caused the biggest population movement in recent Latin American history. Support from the international community has predominantly focused on short-term humanitarian assistance, which will remain important for the most vulnerable Venezuel...
November 18, 2019
CGD is developing a new analytical framework, A Policy Decision Tree for Improving Financial Inclusion. The Tree is a decision-making tool focused on digital financial services (DFS) that will help in diagnosing country-specific binding constraints that impede significant im...
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12:30—2:00 PM GMT
September 18, 2019
Gautam Rao will talk about his new research, which examines whether evidence changes the beliefs and actions of policy makers. His findings show that policy makers do update their beliefs and do make different policy decisions when presented with new evidence. This research is particularly fasc...
Blog Post
September 12, 2019
Which African country is making the most progress in teaching kids to read by the time they reach third grade? Which language-of-instruction policies are most effective in early literacy teaching? Which country is getting the most children to complete primary school equipped with basic literacy, num...
WORKING PAPERS
September 12, 2019
Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not implemented testing of children’s learning that can be benchmarked regionally or globally, in contrast to almost all countries in Latin America. Our analysis of the political economy of cross-national learning measurement in Latin America suggests ...
POLICY PAPERS
July 11, 2019
Reforming inefficient and inequitable energy subsidies continues to be an important priority for policymakers as does instituting “green taxes” to reduce carbon emissions. The paper outlines how the use of digital technology can help accomplishing those reforms, drawing on four country c...