This chapter surveys experience with performance pay in developing country health
programs. In doing so, it focuses on four key conceptual issues:(1) What to reward,(2) Who …

" This book is about the threats to education quality in the developing world that cannot be
explained by lack of resources. It reviews the observed phenomenon of service delivery …

In this paper, we report results from surveys in which enumerators made unannounced visits
to primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru and …

Faced with teacher shortage, and limited budgets several developing countries have
accepted lower certification and education requirements, eliminated teacher tenure, and …

I have chosen to write this book in a way that is informed by critical theories of development
and feminist scholarship, but that places lived experience front and center. My professional …

" Large-scale efforts have been made since the 1990s to ensure that all children of the world
go to school. But mere enrollment is not sufficient, students must become fluent in reading …

Abstract The UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality, an
expert advisory group commissioned by the UN Secretary‐General, was asked to examine …

I use unique child-level panel data from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam, four developing
countries with widely differing levels of student achievement, to study the extent to which …

Promoting access to modern energy forms in developing countries to replace traditional
fuels is high on the political agenda. This paper describes the development and application …

Between 2002 and 2013, bilateral donors spent over $64 billion on AIDS intervention in low-
and middle-income countries. During the same period, nearly 25 million died of AIDS and …