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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...

Sustainable Development Goals and Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is about celebrating abundance and wealth; commit to advocating for the Sustainable Development Goals to your family! At the same time, learn new Chinese New Year greetings to impress your elders. SDG 1 : No Poverty 阖家幸福 (hé jiā...

Mission possible: getting affordable COVID-19 tests to those who need it most How UNICEF is enabling access to COVID-19 diagnostics for low- and middle-income countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered diagnostic testing needs at an unprecedented scale. Early in 2020, while diagnostics...

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...

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...

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...