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How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently?
Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning. This paper provides the most recent and comprehensive review of the literature on effective education programs, with a novel emphasis on cost-effectiveness, covering the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions from over 200 impact evaluations across 52 countries.
Implementation Matters: Generalising Treatment Effects in Education
Targeted instruction is one of the most effective educational interventions in low- and middle-income countries, yet reported impacts vary by an order of magnitude. We study this variation and use the results to inform a new randomised trial.
Strengthening development finance in fragile contexts
Designed to succeed: building authorising environments for fast-growing cities
Impôts sur le foncier: pour valoriser des revenus municipaux inexploités
Policy options for informal settlements
Urban mobility: policy decisions for connecting the city
Risk of Openness Index: When do government responses need to be increased or maintained?
Pioneering firms in fragile and conflict-affected states
The Lemann Foundation Programme is a comparative research programme with an emphasis on Brazil, which generates and disseminates knowledge to improve the public sector and its associated institutions.
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