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Education | The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankWe conducted a survey covering 20% of villages with 200-1000 population in rural Guinea-Bissau. We interviewed household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of children were able to add two single digits, and just 19% were able to read and comprehend a simple...
Working Paper | Multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, gouvernance et démocratie : Le point de vue de la population malienne. Enquête ELIM2006. Premiers résultats.
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankLa mesure de la gouvernance et de la démocratie dans le cadre des stratégies actuelles de lutte contre la pauvreté constitue un défi majeur. Dans le prolongement de l'expérience menée en 2001 à Bamako, dans le cadre de l'enquête 132, la DNSI a intégré des modules portant sur les multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, la gouvernance et la démocratie à l'enquête nationale ELIM 2006. Dans un...
Briefing | Malawi | More than just ‘demand’: Malawi’s public-service community scorecard
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Civil SocietyCommunity-based monitoring instruments, such as scorecards, are used increasingly to complement and reinforce conventional mechanisms to strengthen accountability and performance in public-service delivery. While they have been backed by the international community, there is limited evidence on how they work in practice and what conditions they need to be effective. This Project Briefing seeks...
Measuring Democracy and Democratic Governance in a Post-2015 Development Framework
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, GAP, Governance and MDGThis discussion paper aims to outline some of the major factors to consider should it be decided that global goal(s) covering democratic governance are included in a post-2015 framework. In contrast to the existing MDGs, which are focused on socio-economic development indicators, democratic governance is not easy to measure because it means different things to different people, because it is...
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Demand and Supply Side Education Interventions:The Case of Progresa in Mexico
Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, Latin America and the Carribean, Civil SocietyThis paper is concerned with the issue of the most cost-effective way of improving access to education for poor households in developing countries. We consider two alternatives: (1) extensive expansion of the school system (i.e., bringing education to the poor) and (2) subsidizing investment in education by the poor (i.e., bringing the poor to the education system). To this end, we evaluate the...
Human Development Measurement: A broader approach in India
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankIn this paper, the author attempts to assess economic development more specifically, how can we measure economic development in human aspects? The question had been asked and argued for several years. Human development concept and its index gives answer for these questions. This article aims to depict the concept of human development and its measurement especially in the Indian context....
African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankThe conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala‐i‐Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the period 1970‐2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly. (2) If present trends continue, the poverty Millennium...
How should MDG Implementation Be Measured: Faster Progress or Meeting Targets?
Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, UNDP ProducedThis paper questions the methodology that is widely used to assess progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a methodology that asks whether the targets are likely to be met. This approach is inappropriate, since the MDGs were neither designed as nor intended to be planning targets. They were political commitments, made by world leaders, that define priorities in a...
Measuring the Progress of Societies - Newsletter
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Governance and MDG, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationSince its formal establishment almost two years ago, the Global Project on “Measuring the Progress of Societies” has been a successful vehicle for raising awareness and mobilising political support towards better progress measures. At the 3rd OECD World Forum in Busan, Korea last October, close to 2000 participants from over 100 countries came together to exchange best practices and...