For the past few years, CEP research associate Peter Boone and his colleagues at Effective Intervention have been running primary school education projects in the rural villages of Andhra Pradesh and Guinea-Bissau. Their initial survey of literacy and numeracy in Guinea-Bissau showed that very...

Neoliberal approaches to urban restructuring may favor the wealthier and more powerful, but neoliberalism alone cannot account for the varied outcomes found among poor urban residents. Using field studies and documentary research on five cities in French-speaking West Africa and India, this...

Services sector in India contributes more than 60% of the overall gross domestic product (GDP) and more than 40% of total trade. This sector also absorbs a chunk of manpower, especially in export-oriented industries and reduces the employment burden on other non-services sectors. In this...