Education in Africa: What are we learning?

DK Evans, A Mendez Acosta - Journal of African Economies, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Countries across Africa continue to face major challenges in education. In this review, we
examine 145 recent empirical studies (from 2014 onward) on how to increase access to and …

The many meanings of quality education: Politics of targets and indicators in SDG 4

E Unterhalter - Global Policy, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The formulation of the SDG education targets was more inclusive than the processes linked
with the MDG s. Key constituencies making representations through the Open Working …

COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low-and middle-income countries

JS Solís Arce, SS Warren, NF Meriggi, A Scacco… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Widespread acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines is crucial for achieving sufficient
immunization coverage to end the global pandemic, yet few studies have investigated …

The asymmetric effect eco-innovation and tourism towards carbon neutrality target in Turkey

Y Sun, OA Duru, A Razzaq, MS Dinca - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract After the Paris Climate Conference (Conference of the Paris COP21), emerging
countries also start progressing as the world has shown serious concern towards carbon …

Teacher professional development around the world: The gap between evidence and practice

A Popova, DK Evans, ME Breeding… - The World Bank …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Many teachers in low-and middle-income countries lack the skills to teach effectively, and
professional development (PD) programs are the principal tool that governments use to …

The right to education and ICT during COVID-19: An international perspective

LML Lorente, AA Arrabal, C Pulido-Montes - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
There is a lack of concluding evidence among epidemiologists and public health specialists
about how school closures reduce the spread of COVID-19. Herein, we attend to the …

Does the pandemic help us make education more equitable?

P Sahlberg - Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2021 - Springer
Everybody agrees that the COVID-19 pandemic is a big disruption in education. It questions
many traditional rules and structures that have organised the work of schools in the past. But …

Inputs, incentives, and complementarities in education: Experimental evidence from Tanzania

I Mbiti, K Muralidharan, M Romero… - … Quarterly Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present results from a large-scale randomized experiment across 350 schools in
Tanzania that studied the impact of providing schools with (i) unconditional grants,(ii) …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016

SS Lim, RL Updike, AS Kaldjian, RM Barber, K Cowling… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Human capital is recognised as the level of education and health in a
population and is considered an important determinant of economic growth. The World Bank …

Evaluating the impact of professional development

S Borg - RELC Journal, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Professional development is central to teacher competence and, with particular attention to
larger-scale, structured and formal professional development interventions (PDIs), this …