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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

Abstract When infectious disease outbreaks strike, health facilities acquire labels such as “war zones” and “battlefields” and healthcare professionals become “heroes” on the “front line.” But unlike soldiers, healthcare professionals often take on these dangerous roles without any prior intention...

Historians divide history into large and small units in order to make characteristics and changes clear to themselves and to students. It’s important to remember that any historical period is a construction and a simplification. In Asia, because of its huge land mass and multiple diverse cultures...

ONE TEAM IS REDEFINING HOW THE WORLD MEASURES HAPPINESS, FOR THE BETTER If we want to “build back happier,” we’ll have to know where to look. IT’S TEMPTING TO ASSUME 2020 WAS NOT A GREAT YEAR FOR HAPPINESS. BUT DESPITE LAST YEAR’S HEALTH HARDSHIPS AND A SPIKE IN POOR MENTAL HEALTH, THE AUTHORS OF...

Since the birth of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, most member states have had to abide by the Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which protects patents and copyrights including those applicable to new diagnostics, vaccines, medicines and medical supplies...

The courtroom is an intimidating place for adults, let alone unaccompanied children who do not understand the language of the proceedings. Children deserve better. Better can be attainable but we have to adapt to changes at grassroot level. Its high time those who wish to be Lawyers, Doctors...

The protection of staff and respondents who participate in our research is of highest priority for J-PAL. As of March 17, J-PAL has therefore suspended all research activities that contribute to in-person interactions in order to limit COVID-19 spread. Many other research organizations have done so...

If you have looked at last year’s Nobel prize winners work in economics you will realize that it is heavily dependent on good quality primary data that is collected through in-person household interviews in developing countries. Over the last few weeks, as the COVID-19 crisis escalated, most...