By David Evans and Amina Mendez Acosta 1. Introduction Education has expanded dramatically in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last half century. From 1970 to 2010, the percentage of children across the...
Kenya + 43 more
Kenya + 43 more
By David Evans and Amina Mendez Acosta 1. Introduction Education has expanded dramatically in Sub-Saharan Africa over the last half century. From 1970 to 2010, the percentage of children across the...
World + 23 more
Executive Summary Today, 1.4 million refugees urgently await resettlement. Unlike the rest of the world’s 26 million refugees, they have been designated by the United Nations (UN) as having...
Bangladesh + 20 more
Abstract Refugees living in low- and middle-income countries are especially vulnerable to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on data from eight hosting countries before COVID-19, we...
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Sarah Rose Summary Global development is increasingly intertwined with state fragility. Poverty is becoming concentrated in fragile states, and conflict, violent extremism, and environmental stresses...
DR Congo + 9 more
Carleigh Krubiner and Liesl Schnabel On July 17, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a Public Health Emergency of...
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Cindy Huang, Sarah Charles, Lauren Post, and Kate Gough EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The international community has come together in new ways to address forced displacement—one of the biggest challenges of the...
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Ben Leo, Robert Morello, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Peixoto, and Stephen Davenport Abstract In this project, we analyzed whether mobile phone-based surveys are a feasible and cost-effective approach for...
1/17/14 Kate Almquist Knopf Kate Almquist Knopf, formerly a visiting policy fellow at CGD, previously served as USAID’s Assistant Administrator for Africa and Sudan mission director. This is the...