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RISE Working Paper 19/032 - The Political Economy of Testing in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not implemented testing of children’s learning that can be benchmarked regionally or globally. In contrast, in the…

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Barbara Bruns
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Maryam Akmal
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Nancy Birdsall
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For Better Learning, Africa Needs Better Data
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Lant Pritchett
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Vietnam: Exploring the Deep Determinants of Learning
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Many features of Vietnam’s education system and its performance around learning can be traced to specific features of the country's…
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