This paper reviews the progress economists have made towards achieving an evidence-based educational policy, and highlights challenges that remain. The five main findings are: (1) over the past two decades, much effort has gone into identifying the causal effects of school inputs; this work has...

This report presents a brief summary of Latin America and the Caribbean progress in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some suggestions to adapt the MDG agenda to the realities and stages of development of the countries of the region, a summary of recent Inter-American...

In spite of its importance for the economy, trade in developing countries has been falling short of the attention it deserves in discussions about development policies. It is all the more necessary, therefore, henceforth to make the very existence, and the increasing use, of trade consulting...