The health sector has faced long-standing challenges in drivers of worker behaviours and
performance, such as job satisfaction, which have been worsened by COVID-19. Structural …

This study explores whether Free Primary Education reforms in 6 Sub-Saharan Africa
countries affected the quality of teachers in a way that can be detected several years after …

Student attendance at school is a necessary condition for learning and for other schooling
benefits, yet absenteeism is a significant issue for students in many countries. Policies …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa has fewer medical workers per capita than any region of the
world, and that shortage has been highlighted consistently as a critical constraint to …

Public services, such as primary health care and education, have important consequences
for social welfare and economic development. However, the quality of service delivery …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa has fewer medical workers per capita than any region of the
world, and that shortage has been highlighted consistently as a critical constraint to …

Despite a consensus that quality of care is critically deficient in low-income countries, few
nationally representative studies provide comparable measures of quality of care across …

We report results from the first randomization of a regulatory reform in the health sector. The
reform established minimum quality standards for patient safety, an issue that has become …

This book tells the real story of education in low-income countries and shows why ordinary
people are making extreme sacrifices to reject free public schools in favor of low quality …

Health is an essential component of human capital formation, especially in the early years of
the lifecycle. 2 Inadequate infrastructure affects both demand for health care services as well …