This week's links include the impacts of cash transfers on mortality, what economists got wrong about funding ARVs in Africa, ideas about reforming the World Bank, and more.
After four years working with David Malpass, many employees now say he has been one of the most effective and inspiring leaders the World Bank has ever…
A few years ago, one of us (Abhijeet) wrote a cautionary note that the “standard deviation” measure in education evaluations in development economics was not typically comparable. That note was based on the informal observation that tests in development evaluations seemed to vary a lot from one study to the next. And, unlike the armies of psychometricians who design international assessments such as PISA, most development economists aren’t trained to create tests
During this one-hour event hosted by the Center for Global Development, Courtenay Cabot Venton, Founder of the Share Trust and lead author of the study, will present the findings from the analysis and discuss the implications for the aid sector with other leading experts. We will be joined by Naomi Ayot Oyaro and Justin Sandefur.