What do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa

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Moving Up a Gear: The CapED Initiative

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Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa

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Kenya Youth Agribusiness Srategy: Positioning the youth at the forefront of Agricultural Growth and Transformation

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Financing Transformative Health Systems towards Achievement of the Health Sustainable Development Goals

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Q&A: UNFPA Chief on Why it Pays to have Healthy Youth

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Developing countries looking to PPPs to bolster public services should heed experience of other countries

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More than Half of the World’s Population Growth will be in Africa by 2050

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What Works in Education to Get Economies Moving and to Sustain Growth? (Part 1)

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Narrowing the Gaps: The Power of Investing in the Poorest Children

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First WHO Africa Health Forum Concludes with Call for Universal Health Coverage

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Facility-Based Delivery Has Increased in Africa and Asia – Now What?

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Reducing Global Poverty through Universal Primary and Secondary Education

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Good Health Care for Africa Depends on Health Workers and Good Governance

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To Fight Malnutrition in Africa, Embed Nutrition in Agriculture Programs

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Does SDG 3 have an Adequate Theory of Change for Improving Health Systems Performance?

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Ethiopia’s Community Health Workers Program Aims to Improve Child Survival

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Five Strategies to Help Youth Succeed in the Digital Age

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Investment in Health is the Foundation for Sustainable Development

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Offspring Schooling Associated with Increased Parental Survival in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Maternal Newborn Health and the Urban Poor: A Global Scoping

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The First Step to Africa’s Prosperity – Saving Children’s Lives

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Synergies and Tensions Between Universal Health Coverage and Global Health Security: Why We Need a Second ‘Maximizing Positive Synergies’ Initiative

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Better Business, Better World

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Early Childhood as the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Workforce

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Deadly Vices: The Bad Habits That Are Making Africans Sick

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Let’s Reinvent and Diversify Africa’s Universities to Make Them Centers of Innovation

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Education For All: Africa Has Too Few Universities For Its Fast Growing Population

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To Achieve #HealthForAll We Need Health Workers for All

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Investing in Health: The Economic Case

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Impacts of Universal Health Coverage: Financing, Income Inequality, and Social Welfare

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Three Reasons Procurement is Essential for Development

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Risk of Poor Development in Young Children in Low-income and Middle-income Countries: An Estimation and Analysis at the Global, Regional, and Country Level

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Opinion: The Future of Health Financing — Investing in Data

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In Key African Nations, Widespread Discontent with Economy, Corruption: But Most Are Optimistic About Future in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya

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Sources of Variation in Under-5 Mortality Across Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Analysis

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Cash Transfers and Health: Evidence from Tanzania

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Give Me a Child: Boosting the Health of Toddlers’ Bodies and Brains Brings Multiple Benefits

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Aligning Values and Outcomes in Priority–setting for Health

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UNESCO eAtlas of Gender Inequality in Education

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The World Needs Almost 69 Million New Teachers to Reach the 2030 Education Goals

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The Long-run Effects of Treated Water on Education: The Rural Drinking Water Program in China

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Private Sector Provides Opportunity to Improve Myanmar’s Health Outcomes

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Risk of Poor Development in Young Children in Low-income and Middle-income Countries: An Estimation and Analysis at the Global, Regional, and Country Level

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Sources of Variation in Under-5 Mortality Across Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Analysis

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Give me a child: Boosting the Health of Toddlers’ Bodies and Brains Brings Multiple Benefits. But Too Often the Wrong Methods Are Used

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Spending Targets for Health: No Magic Number

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GPE Promotes Gender Equality in Education

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Chart: Half of the World’s Extremely Poor are Children

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Fully Engaging the Private Sector in Health Systems Development

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Where Economics and Epidemics Collide: Migrant Workers and Emerging Infections

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An Investor’s Plan to Transplant Private Health Care in Africa

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Global Education Monitoring Report: Education for People and Planet

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Death in the Air: Air Pollution Costs Money and Lives

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Preparing Great Primary School Teachers Is Not So Elementary

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The Next Generation of African Scientists Need a More Sustainable Career Path

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Quality of Basic Maternal Care Functions in Health Facilities of Five African Countries: An Analysis of National Health System Surveys

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Six ways to turn education spending into investments with high returns

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The Best News You Don’t Know

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This Is How We Can Tackle Global Educational Inequalities

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UNESCO eAtlas For Mapping Education 2030

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Lions on the Move II: Realizing the Potential of Africa’s Economies

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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2016

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Public Financing for Health in Africa: From Abuja to the SDGs

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Revisiting the Journey to the Sustainable Development Goals

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Budget Enquirer

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State of the Least Developed Countries 2016: Follow up of the Implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries

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Transforming African Development: Partnerships and Risk Mitigation to Mobilize Private Investment on a New Scale

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Save the Children Report: Philippines Economy Loses P328 Billion a Year Due to Malnutrition

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Achieving Universal Access to Water and Sanitation by 2030: The Role of Blended Finance

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Child Poverty, Inequality and Demography

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Poor Data Hurts African Countries’ Ability to Make Good Policy Decisions

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A Development Challenge The World Can Overcome

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New Study Shows Undernutrition Taking A Huge Toll On Ghana’s Economy

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Cost of Poor Child Growth in Developing World: $177B in Lost Wages for Children Born Each Year

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Benefits and Costs of Introducing E-Procurement in Bangladesh

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Improving Africa’s School Feeding Programs: Analysis Sheds Light on Strengths, Challenges

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Investing in health is not cheap, but it is not a luxury either

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Mobilizing Resources to Finance Global Health Priorities

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World’s Poorest Face Large Ongoing Health Bills

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Cancer is on the rise in Africa just as some of the few radiotherapy centers fall apart

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Taxing Tobacco and the New Vision for Financing Development

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Health Financing Crisis Threatens Developing Countries, Experts Say

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A New Map of Poverty, a New Approach to International Aid

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International Aid For Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS Declines

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Checkup For Finance Ministers

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Costa Rica: Universal health coverage and community-based health teams create effective care

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Poverty Alleviation and the Economic Benefits of Investing in Health

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The MDG To SDG Transition: Implications For Health Care Systems

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The Road to Transparency

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The Entire World is Getting a New Polio Vaccine This Month

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High Global Vaccine Prices Could Worsen Angola’s Deadly Yellow Fever Outbreak

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PHCPI Data Insight: Primary Health Care Spending

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Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health: Key Messages From Disease Control Priorities 3rd Edition

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Health Impact of Rotavirus Vaccination in Developing Countries: Progress and Way Forward

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The Rate of Diabetes Has More Than Doubled in Africa and No One is Ready For It

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Malawi Turns to Drones to Bolster Child Healthcare in Remote Communities

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The Importance of Quality Daycare for Working Women in Africa

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The Unrelenting Specter of Drug-Resistant Malaria

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How Can Africa Master the Digital Revolution?

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Communicable Diseases Rise 32% in 5 years, but Spending Up 7%

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Angola Cut Spending for Low Oil Prices and Triggered a Yellow Fever Health Crisis

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The Fight Of A Lifetime: Health Systems And Chronic Diseases

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If We Really Cared About Saving Lives In Poor Countries, We Wouldn’t Focus Only On AIDS

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The World’s Modern-Day Lepers: Women With Fistulas

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What It’d Take To Save 10 Million Lives: Zinc, Bed Nets, $70 Billion

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The Right Targets for Global Health Investment

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What Africa Will Look Like in 100 Years

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Giving People Money Gaining Momentum as New Anti-Poverty Solution

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Why Zika and Ebola are not the World’s Biggest Problems Right Now: Lomborg

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PEPFAR: is 90-90-90 Magical Thinking?

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Cameroon: Setting Priorities for Mother, Child Health

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Which Wealthy Countries Have the Worst Inequality?

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Long-term Surveillance of the Effect of PCV13: the Future Challenge in Africa

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Can the Private Sector Help Achieve Universal Health Coverage?

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Africa Far from Sustainable Energy for All, But Showing Signs of Progress

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How Should We Prepare for the Next Pandemic?

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The Importance of Investing in Strong and Sustainable Health Systems

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An Evolving Global Movement Toward UHC: From Financing to Primary Care-focused Delivery

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Why Economists Put Health First

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From Supply Chain Analysis to Action: The Case of Ethiopia

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What Can We Learn From Falling Child Mortality Rates?

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Trajectories for Sustainable Development Goals : Framework and Country Applications

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From MDGs to SDGs, WHO Launches New Report

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Trajectories for Sustainable Development Goals : Framework and Country Applications

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Millions of women severely undernourished in low- and middle-income countries

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Twenty sub-Saharan countries have only one medical school—and six have none

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The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic

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The Secret Bribes of Big Tobacco Paper Trail

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Listening to Leaders: Which Development Partners Do They Prefer And Why?

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Global Nutrition Report

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World Bank’s New End-Poverty Tool: Surveys in Poorest Countries

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Reducing teen smoking in Chile

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Lesotho’s Controversial Public–Private Partnership Project

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Global Financing Facility: Where Will the Funds Come From?

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NCDs Are A Growing Burden in Africa, Advances in Health Care Need to Keep Pace with Changing Lifestyles

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TB Is Now The Top Infectious Killer (Even Though Deaths Are Down)

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Stopping tuberculosis: a biosocial model for sustainable development

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Worse than Malaria

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Dear primary health systems, it’s time for your checkup

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Health Care, Education Are Top Priorities in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Transforming Turkey’s Health System — Lessons for Universal Coverage

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The importance of global health investment

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Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Investment Case and Financing Requirements

Dr. Bernice Dahn, Dr. Addis Tamire Woldemariam, Dr. Henry Perry, Dr. Akiko Maeda, Drew von Glahn, Dr. Raj Panjabi, Na’im Merchant, Katy Vosburg, Dr. Daniel Palazuelos, Dr. Chunling Lu, John Simon, Jerome Pfaffmann, Daniel Brown, Austin Hearst, Phyllis Heydt, Claire Qureshi. “Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Investment Case and Financing Requirements.” World Bank, Partners in Health, The Clinton Foundation, MDG (Millennium Development Goals) Health Alliance, and the governments of Ethiopia and Liberia. July 2015. Read the Article