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Why the Government Struggles to Take Back Control of Medellín's Gang-Run Neighborhoods
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Researchers: Christopher Blattman, Gustavo Duncan, Benjamin Lessing, and Santiago Tobón
Urban armed groups, especially criminal gangs, are a growing threat to peace and economic growth in cities across the world. These groups often exert state-like powers, enforcing contracts, policing, and taxing businesses in the areas they informally govern. The conventional wisdom suggests that criminal organizations provide governance when states do not, and that increasing state services could crowd gangs out. In partnership with the City of Medellín, researchers randomly introduced a program that intensified government outreach to gang-controlled neighborhoods. The study found no evidence that the city’s intervention reduced gang rule.
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Gender Bias in Assessments of Teacher Performance in Ghana
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Researchers: Sabrin Beg, Anne Fitzpatrick, and Adrienne Lucas
Professional advancement often depends on subjective performance reviews, especially in developing countries where objective data on performance may not be available. But subjective reviews may be susceptible to personal biases based on characteristics like gender. To better understand this in the education sector in Ghana, researchers compared both principals’ reviews and teacher self-assessments of effectiveness to an objective measure: increases in student test scores. Female teachers were objectively more effective based on increases in student test scores. However, principals were 11 percentage points less likely to rate a female teacher as effective compared to a male teacher. These findings contribute to the evidence on gender biases in subjective assessments and related barriers faced by women in labor markets in developing countries.
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Why IPA Has Launched a Human Trafficking Research Initiative (and What’s Next)
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By Ellen Bates-Jefferys and Jeni Sorensen
Policymakers and civil society groups have been working for decades to reduce instances of human trafficking through prevention, protection, prosecution, policy, and partnership efforts. Many advances have been made in putting necessary frameworks and laws into place, such as the widespread ratification of the Palermo Protocol, which establishes an international definition of trafficking in persons and enhances international cooperation to prosecute trafficking crimes and assist victims of trafficking. However, more needs to be done within the human trafficking field to critically examine current counter-trafficking interventions and strengthen the evidence base for effective interventions to reduce trafficking and support survivors.
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Women in Policy: Using Data to Respond to the COVID Education Crisis in Peru, The Philippines, and Colombia
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Women in Policy: Promoting Education and Fighting Gender-Based Violence in Zambia and Kenya
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Learning in the Time of a Pandemic: Effects of COVID-19 on Students’ Learning and the Wider Education Sector in Ghana
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March 11 | Webinar, Ghana
IPA Philippines Presents on Teacher Needs Assessment Study to the Department of Education
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IPA Philippines Presents at 2021 Monitoring and Evaluation Forum
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