International development

A University of Cambridge-led analysis of how war has affected education and children’s lives in Gaza calls for an urgent increase in international...

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed. Yet among...

A UK-funded programme to support out-of-school girls in low-income countries has significantly enhanced their learning, confidence, opportunities and...

New research shows proportion of international education aid for early childhood learning fell to just 1.1% post-pandemic, far short of an agreed 10%...

New data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely...

Analysis of a results-based-financing programme for education aid in Ethiopia finds that multiple aspects of the arrangement were unfit for purpose...

A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower- and middle-income...

As much as a year’s worth of past academic progress made by disadvantaged children in the Global South may have been wiped out by school closures...

The needs of millions of overlooked, ‘left behind’ adolescent women must become a more significant priority within international efforts to end...

Many schools in Ethiopia lack the hygiene facilities and infrastructure to control COVID-19 effectively, as they reopen for the first time after...