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Mexico’s conditional cash transfer programme improved the life of disadvantaged children even when not explicitly targeted

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USAID is using evidence to improve the way we teach and learn

Training girls in Zambia to negotiate saw them use strategies to secure household resources to stay in school longer, even in the face of poverty

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