Education, economics and public policy

China now produces twice as many graduates a year as the US Brain Drain from Southeast Asia Poses Obstacle to Growth: Highly skilled workers are pursuing better opportunities outside the region Loss of human capital can be a major obstacle to development But remittances from migrants are a vital source of income Singapore’s Institute ofContinue reading “News and Research 47: China now produces more graduates than USA”

Can a Tech Start-Up Successfully Educate Children in the Developing World?  Bridge International Academies — a chain of inexpensive private schools — has ambitious plans to revolutionize education for poor children. But can its for-profit model work in some of the most impoverished places on Earth? Thai students’ strong results boost hopes  Success factors are identified asContinue reading “News and Research 50”

World Bank: Education Is the Key to Reducing Poverty  Khmer Times, Interview with Ulrich Zachau, country director at the World Bank: Cambodia has continued to change. GDP has been growing impressively at an average of 7.6 percent and the poverty rate fell from 47.8 percent in 2007 to 13.5 percent in 2014. Cambodia has come a longContinue reading “News and Research 49: Education: the Key To Reducing Poverty”

By HARRY A. PATRINOS, JIMMY GRAHAM, SEAN KELLYData shows that huge swaths of populations in developing countries are not learning to read. Scaling up early reading interventions will be a first step toward addressing these high illiteracy rates. (Photo: Liang Qiang / World Bank)BY HARRY A. PATRINOS ON MON, 06/12/2017 CO-AUTHORS: JIMMY GRAHAM, SEAN KELLY JIMMY GRAHAM,Continue reading “Why we should invest in getting more kids to read — and how to do it”