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There are no global solutions in education
By Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Lindsay ReadThis message is loud and clear in two flagship reports on global education, both released this month: the Global Education Monitoring Report, the U.N. Educational,...
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Figure of the week: Africa’s progress on the SDGs and Agenda 2063
By Mariama SowThe ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Africa’s Agenda 2063 are now well underway. Notably, though, policymakers and other stakeholders often encounter challenges when...
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Canada and the Sustainable Development Goals
By John McArthurOn November 15, John McArthur appeared on TVOntario to discuss how Canada is doing domestically on achieving the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals.
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State fragility is key to reaching the last mile in ending poverty
By George Ingram, Jonathan PapoulidisFragile states are at the center of today’s global development crisis. By 2030, an estimated 80 percent of the world’s extreme poor will live in these perilous...
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Enhancing food and nutrition security in a newly middle-income country:...
By Francis MulanguWhile 6 million Ghanaians (21 percent of the population) live in rural poverty, when it comes to food and nutrition security (FNS) the country performs relatively better than its...
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Optimizing Assessment for All
By David BatcheckAssessment of students’ learning—gauging their capabilities—is part of the core of education. Assessment provides feedback to the system, the teacher, and the student about how...
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Figures of the week: Inequality in health and education outcomes in...
By Dhruv GandhiThe 2017 IMF Fiscal Monitor report addresses trends in income inequality, its impact on health and educational outcomes, and policy options to addresses those gaps. Unfortunately,...
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Fight opioids with lessons learned from Ebola, HIV crises
By Anthony F. PipaAs someone who worked for decades on poverty in the U.S. before focusing on international development, I find it worth exploring what lessons from the global experience might be...
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A review of education in 2017
By Rebecca WinthropAs 2017 comes to a close, we in the Center for Universal Education (CUE) have been reflecting on what a busy year it had been for us here at Brookings, for the global education...
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Figures of the Week – Foresight Africa: Human development in sub-Saharan Africa
By Dhruv GandhiOn Thursday, January 11, the Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings launched its annual Foresight Africa report, focusing on key priorities for the region for the upcoming year. In...
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The link between foreign aid and domestic social spending
By Homi Kharas, Lorenz NoeIn Angus Deaton’s January 24 New York Times op-ed, The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem, the Nobel Prize winning economist rightly pointed to the scourge...
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From Davos: Is paying for results with blended finance ready to take off?
By Emily Gustafsson-WrightLast Thursday morning, at a dark, early-morning hour, with my high-security badge securely hung from my neck, I cautiously trod along the slippery streets of Davos,...
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Leave no country behind
By Geoffrey Gertz, Homi KharasThe past 15 years saw the most rapid decline in global poverty ever, with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of halving the global poverty rate reached several years...
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Strengthening global education partnerships during a time of increasing...
By Rebecca WinthropLast week, amid growing movements towards isolationism throughout the world, the global education community doubled down on collaboration and partnerships across borders. From Lyon,...
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Thomas C. Barrett
By Molli FerrarelloThomas Barrett is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Global Economy Development program at the Brookings Institution. His priority areas of focus are infrastructure and development...
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In defense of traditional aid
By Anthony F. PipaA few weeks ago, Duke Professor Indermit Gill prophesied in a Brookings blog post that 2018 will herald the end of aid just as we hosted a roundtable of experts from civil society,...
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The road to ending poverty runs through 31 severely off track countries
By Geoffrey Gertz, Homi KharasOver the past two decades, the world has been living through the most dramatic decline in global poverty ever. Since 2000, while global population has increased by 1.4...
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15 countries and cities gathered to rethink education assessment systems —...
By Kate Anderson, Tyler DitmoreSince the United Nations Member States officially adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, one of the major narratives in global development has centered...
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Toward data-driven education systems: Insights into using information to...
By Samantha Custer, Elizabeth King, Tamar Manuelyan Atinc, Lindsay Read, Tanya SethiToday, 650 million children around the globe are at risk of being left behind as they fail to learn basic skills....
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