This evidence brief summarises the findings from a rigorous review conducted by Oketch,
McCowan and Schendel (2014), entitled\" The impact of tertiary education on development\" …

In the early 1990s the World Bank launched the Regional Program on Enterprise
Development (rped) in several African countries, a key component of which was to collect …

Resource-rich countries have tended to be autocratic and also have tended to use their
resource wealth badly. The neoconservative agenda of promoting democratization in …

Poverty is still a predominantly rural phenomenon. However, the context of rural poverty has
been changing across the world, with high growth in some economies and stagnation in …

This book provides a likelihood-based introduction to econometrics. In essence, the idea is
to carefully investigate the sample variation in the data, then exploit that information to learn …

This paper estimates the effect of education on the success of entrepreneurial activity, using
survey data from Malawi. An instrument variable approach is used to address the …

It is commonly believed that labour‐market returns to education are highest for the primary
level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence reviewed in this article …

Youth is a crucial time of life when young people start realizing their aspirations, assuming
their economic independence and finding their place in society. The global jobs crisis has …

Can television be used to teach and foster entrepreneurship among youth in developing
countries? We report from a randomized control field experiment of an edutainment show on …

Differential labor market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation
for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by …