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Improving Learning Outcomes: Lessons f
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Global efforts are underway to improve education quality—to ensure children are not only in school but learning and developing to their full potential. Although many theories exist on the best approaches to improve education quality, policymakers and implementers need evidence on which programs are effective at helping children actually learn while in school. This brief summarizes and provides key lessons from multiple meta-analyses and over two dozen randomized evaluations (both IPA and non-IPA studies) on improving learning outcomes in low-income countries, with a focus on basic education.
Read the full brief on Improving Learning Outcomes.
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FEATURED BLOG POST
IPA Launches $5.4 Million Initiative to Protect Digital Finance Users
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By Rafe Mazer
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IPA's Financial Inclusion Program has launched the first ever impact evaluation fund for consumer protection work in emerging markets, thanks to generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The initiative will support research to drive better consumer protection measures in digital finance, particularly in areas such as fraud, complaints handling, product information, and consumer choice. In this post, project director Rafe Mazer explains why this initiative is needed and how it will generate important insights to help consumers and providers of digital finance around the globe.
Read the full blog post on the digital consumer protection initiative.
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RECENT RESULTS
Do "Superstar" Businesses Drive Economic Growth? A Comparison Between the U.S. and Colombia
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Researchers: Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Alvaro Pinzón
Startups in developing countries tend to grow more slowly on average than those in high-income countries, but the reasons why are not well understood. Researchers analyzed data on all manufacturers with more than 10 employees in Colombia and the U.S. over a period of 30 years to compare employment growth among manufacturers in each country. Results suggest that this average pattern is explained by differences in the tails of the distributions: slower growth over the lifecycles of businesses in Colombia than in the U.S. is driven by a smaller contribution among plants with extraordinary growth and a higher likelihood of young underperforming plants remaining active. The youngest cohorts of firms explain the bulk of employment growth in the medium term. These findings suggest that less dynamic high-growth entrepreneurship plays a role in the disparity in economic development between Colombia and the U.S.
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IPA IN THE NEWS
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CNN Interviews Esther Duflo on Nobel Win and the Fight Against Poverty
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IPA's Rafe Mazer in African Business Magazine on
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IPA Philippines to Co-Host Three Workshops on Impact Evaluations
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March 3-5 | Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
IPA to Present at Workshop on Partnerships for Impact Evaluations of Youth Employment Projects in the Sahel
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March 3-5 | Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
IPA Kenya to Host Four Workshops on Results of Study on Novartis Access Program
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March 10-13 | Nyeri, Kakamega, Narok, and Kwale counties, Kenya
IPA Myanmar to Co-Organize Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
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March 10-14 | Yangon, Myanmar
RECENT
IPA Myanmar Presents on Maternal Cash Transfer Study at Stakeholder Workshop
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February 19 | Yangon, Myanmar
IPA Peru Co-Hosts Dissemination Event on Scaling Financial Education through Technology
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February 18 | Lima, Peru
IPA Executive Director Annie Duflo Featured at Yale Philanthropy Conference
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February 14 | New Haven, CT, United States
IPA Presents on Midline Results of Nutrition in Burkina Faso at the European Union
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February 12 | Brussels, Belgium
IPA Philippines Presents at Two Forums on K-12 Education Curriculum
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January 29 - February 6 | Manila, Philippines
IPA Co-Hosts First Forum for the Design of Public Policies Based on Evidence
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February 4 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
IPA Peru Presents on Results of Gender-Based Violence Study
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January 30 - February 1 | Armayari and Lima, Peru
IPA Webcast: The Skills We Really Need: The Impacts of The Educate! Experience, a Skills-Based Education Program for Secondary School Students in Uganda
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January 16 | Webinar, United States
IPA Peru Presents on Effective Approaches to Improve Financial Inclusion in Vulnerable Groups
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January 15 | Lima, Peru
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