Enhancing secondary school learning: Role of remedial camps and teacher flexibility
A key dilemma in Indian education is that while children are enrolled in school, they are not actually learning. Based on an experiment in Odisha, this article explores possible solutions to the learning deficit in secondary schooling. It finds that ...
Increasing learning at scale in Ghana
How can we find education programmes that effectively improve learning at scale?
Hometown conflict and refugees’ integration efforts
Heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian-born students led to improved scores in their new Turkish schools
Learn, Move, Practice: Political rotation spread knowledge and industrial policy across China
The rotation of local political leaders across cities in China facilitates the interregional diffusion of industry-specific knowledge and influences the realisation of local comparative advantage on international markets, potentially through the prac...
International migration kickstarted structural transformation in Malawi
Evidence from Malawi shows that temporary capital inflows from migrants can permanently reshape rural labour markets by jumpstarting a structural transformation out of agriculture.