Monthly Archives: March 2014

What Schooling Did: The effect of education on the educated, their families and their communities

In the most optimistic view of the world, education is meant to be transformative, changing the fortunes of individuals and their families, and spreading by example to the peers of the educated. While this view accords with the policy rhetoric … Continue reading

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Mobile technologies in Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest levels of infrastructure quality in the world. However, 80% of adults in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal have a mobile phone, despite the fact that a large proportion of them live in poverty with no … Continue reading

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Short-term Migration and India’s Employment Guarantee

 The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is one of the world’s biggest anti-poverty public workfare programmes, provisioning for 100 days of guaranteed employment in a year to every rural household in India. The idea behind this programme has been … Continue reading

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