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Nurturing childhood curiosity to enhance learning
A pedagogical programme in Türkiye that nurtured children’s natural curiosity increased science test scores, and had a notable impact on maths and verbal scores
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How Mexico emerged as a key player in the US-China trade war
The recent change in US trade policy vis-a-vis China significantly boosted Mexican firms' exports to the US
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Healing in crisis: Investing in women’s mental health and child development in refugee camps has huge benefits
A low-cost play-based programme for refugee mothers and their children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh was remarkably effective at improving mental health and wellbeing
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Beyond security: UN peacekeeping's role in health and family planning
Evidence from Liberia highlights the role of peacebuilding interventions, through providing a ‘security umbrella’ that promotes local economic development and enables health services provision and access, in reducing fertility rates and improving health outcomes
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Stimulating private sector development through investments in public infrastructure
Investments in local infrastructure that promoted urban livability in Mexico also led to sustained development of the local economy in terms of the size and profitability of private sector firms
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Medication against misery: How health interventions can address ill health and also prevent conflict
How did a large-scale health intervention – the expansion of HIV antiretroviral therapy – impact the prevalence of violent events throughout Africa?
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Community health programmes and HIV/AIDS outcomes in Mozambique
A widely implemented HIV/AIDS programme inadvertently decreased HIV testing by worsening misinformation and HIV-related stigmatising attitudes, but a simple follow-up intervention offset the programme’s adverse effects.
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Can financial redistribution shape attitudes toward refugees?
Policy changes that raise aggregate welfare, but whose benefits are unevenly distributed, are often politically unfeasible. Politicians may recognise the overall gains from refugee integration, for example, but block visas or permits due to local people’s fears about job losses. But might an approach which allows refugees labour market access, and redistributes to host populations some of the resulting savings in foreign aid or public finance, generate the necessary political support?
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Reexamining whether, when and how developing country governments should provide job training and job search support
Recent evidence offers reasons to be a little more optimistic about job training and intermediation programmes, but there remain some reasons for caution