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This press release from the Government of India highlights the importance of flagship missions. For instance, “Nobel laureate Michael Kremer, in his study has reported that 1.36 lakh lives of children under five years of age can be saved every year in rural India by providing safe and adequate...

Starting about five years ago in Indonesia, instead of rice bags, the poor were sent debit cards to buy the equivalent amount of food at local neighborhood shops. Suddenly millions of Indonesians in the program started receiving the total amount of food intended for them 81 percent of the time...

Considering the encouraging results of a pilot project of Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) in Surat, the Gujarat government is going to replicate the same scheme in Ahmedabad in two-phases. It is being implemented in collaboration with researchers of Chicago University, Yale University and Abdul Latif...

Nearly a decade of research by noted economist Karthik Muralidharan and action-oriented interventions by the NGO Pratham offers useful insights into solving the learning crisis through reforms in pedagogy and governance. For successful implementation of these reforms, multiple stakeholders...

On International Education Day, the Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA) shared its various initiatives that are targeted at strengthening India’s education system. In 2020, JICA signed a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) with Pratham Education Foundation, an NGO in India, and the Abdul Latif...

Mobile money services, which allow users to store and exchange monetary values via mobile phone, may help lift people in developing economies out of poverty, a new study led by an Indian origin researcher suggests.

The pandemic wreaked havoc on education. But a new study shows severe learning losses can be reversed, even if partially, by keeping schools open and pushing after-school remediation schemes, which can be helpful for marginalised students.