Improving Education Outcomes in Developing Countries: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Policy Implications

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Building back better to avert a learning catastrophe: Estimating learning loss from COVID-19 school shutdowns in Africa and facilitating short-term and long-term learning recovery (2021, background): “Their review complemented a series of additional evidence reviews (Conn, 2017; Evans and Mendez Acosta, 2020; Evans and Popova, 2016; Friedman et al., 2016; Ganimian and Murnane, 2016; Glewwe and Muralidharan, 2016; Kremer et al., 2013; Snilstveit et al., 2015).”
Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase in Indonesia (2017, background): “…math and language) at an annual cost of only about USD 4 per student, including implementation costs 31 In contrast, several other interventions have been able to achieve substantial test-score gains for existing students in developing countries (see Glewwe and Muralidharan 2016 for a review).”
Decentralization for improving the provision of public services in developing countries: A critical review (2020, background): “Karachiwalla and Park (2017; 2017), Doh (2017) and Glewwe and Muralidharan (2016) argue that quality service provision cannot be achieved if service providers themselves are ignored in the process, through strategies to improve their performance.”