-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly selected for opening of a branch …

efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected … learning outcomes in those schools. However, we do find that the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to read …

-scale randomized trials conducted in collaboration with the state police of Rajasthan, India sought to increase police efficiency and …

Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over …-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts to scale up the NGO … Pratham's approach to teaching children according to their actual learning level, in four Indian States. While this approach …

Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re-organizing instruction based on children …'s actual learning levels, rather than on a prescribed syllabus, and has previously been shown to be very effective when … developed that successfully raised children's learning levels using scalable models in government schools …

In collaboration with the Government of Bihar, India, we conducted a large-scale experiment to evaluate whether …