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The first SDG4 target is to both expand access to universal secondary school and to ensure that all children achieve minimum learning outcomes in primary school. To the extent that action must be prioritized, this article argues that achieving universal secondary education is both more feasible at scale and has clearer benefits than improving learning outcomes in primary schools in developing countries.
This blog highlight the experiences of four fellows from last year’s World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program.
We have squandered 80 years on a wrong conception of how our economy works. There is much to fix…
The essential point is that economists’ competitive frame is falsely founded, and that our competitive social systems are spawning and reinforcing a dangerously myopic culture that is doing us a great deal of damage.
The supply-side framework outlined in this paper does not include all the effects of taxation that economists would like to examine. Depending on one's perspective, the glass could be considered half-full as well as half-empty. But if the only "dynamic" thing the Joint Committee on Taxation did was to incorporate the detrimental effects of federal deficits on capital formation, this would be more than worth the effort.