Low-cost solutions and social mobilisation have helped surprising improvements in social development indicators, however there remain many challenges

Investment, enrolment and achievement in primary education in India lag the rest of Asia and Latin America – a crisis 150 years in the making

Contrary to existing service delivery literature, an audit finds that health workers effectively implement health subsidies in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda

An attendance-monitoring intervention in schools reduced absenteeism, but the impact on health care workers was limited

Giving parents information on the performance of schools in Pakistan improved test scores and enrolment, and reduced the cost of private school...

Drinking contaminated drinking can lead to symptoms of arsenicosis, with negative impacts on mental health, household productivity, and wellbeing

Effective education programmes can be implemented in low-income settings, but the quality of service and adapting it to the local context are crucial

In this video, Pascaline Dupas discusses how a full subsidy of health products increases the number of people benefitting from health products

In this video, Angus Deaton asks whether the government should target aggregate happiness