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Blog Post
October 17, 2012
This is a joint post with Christian Meyer.
Over the last decade, Latin America has seen solid economic growth combined with decreasing (but still very high) income inequality – lifting millions of people out of poverty and fueling the rise of a not-poor-but-not-rich “middle” class.
Jun
19
2012
12:00—1:00 PM
June 07, 2012
Contrary to conventional wisdom, in recent evidence the support for militancy and terrorism does not decline with increasing levels of education in various contexts. In this MADS, Madiha Afzal will present her paper that uses data from a nationally representative public opinion poll in Pakistan to s...
May
8
2012
12:00—1:00 PM
April 27, 2012
More than 20 percent of primary students in countries such as India and Pakistan attend private schools, which tend to be small, low-cost enterprises that effectively face no regulatory oversight and receive no government subsidies. How do they compare to their public counterparts?
Jishnu Das pre...