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Children in Idlib Governorate, Syria: one of the countries most seriously affected by the underfunding of pre-primary education

Richest nations drift further away from 10% aid goal for pre-primary education

17 May 2023

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...

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Young children in Ethiopia

COVID has 'ruptured' social skills of the world’s poorest children, study suggests

30 Nov 2022

Two interlinked studies, involving 8,000 primary pupils altogether, indicate children lost at least a third of a year in learning during lockdown.

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In Ethiopia, schools still lack basic means to contain COVID-19, as pupils return after months of interrupted learning

07 Dec 2020

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

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‘Spill-over’ effects show hidden value of prioritising education of poorest children and marginalised girls

20 Nov 2020

Development projects that target the education of the world’s very poorest girls also significantly improve other young people’s attainment...

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A fishing village along Lake Victoria in the Mayuge District of Uganda, close to where researchers gathered data for the latest study.

Target ‘best connected neighbours’ to stop spread of infection in developing countries

24 Jul 2017

An innovative new study takes a network theory approach to targeted treatment in rural Africa, and finds that a simple algorithm may be more...

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The real corporate tax scandal

23 Mar 2015

Western governments have finally begun to pay close attention to tax avoidance by multinational corporations in rich countries. But where, Cambridge...

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Cultural Healing: Sudan – a creative peace-building project that trained journalism students, civil society representatives and young people to make short films expressing their cultures and traditions.

Four steps towards ending global poverty outlined in Cambridge International Development report

28 Nov 2013

A new report released by Cambridge's Humanitarian Centre aims to set the agenda for a new round of international development goals in 2015.

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Ghana

Harnessing the power of research to benefit developing countries

25 Apr 2013

CEO of GAVI Alliance to give Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research inaugural lecture

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Harry J. Moss

New tool in the fight against tropical diseases

27 Feb 2013

Screening method created to expedite the development of new drugs in the fight against tropical diseases such as malaria and African sleeping...

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Robert Zoellick

Head of World Bank to deliver prestigious Roskill Lecture at Churchill College

22 Feb 2012

The President of the World Bank, Robert B Zoellick, is to deliver the biennial Roskill Lecture at Cambridge University’s Churchill College this...

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Sarah Radcliffe

‘Extreme Sleepover #3’ – gathering the views of indigenous women in rural Ecuador

24 Dec 2011

In the third of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, geographer Dr Sarah Radcliffe describes her work with women from...

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Vegetables in whole food market.

The future of food: your chance to ask the experts

04 Jul 2011

How can we feed the world’s expanding population? Should we be using GM technologies more to boost the yield of our crops? How will global warming...

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