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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Education in Pakistan: What works to improve learning outcomes?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Niharika Singh\, Ph.D. Student Affiiate\, & Zainab Qureshi\, Senior Program Manager\, Evidence for Policy Design Program 	About the Talk: Despite significant progress in enrollment and educational access\, learning outcomes in Pakistan remain vastly substandard. At the same time\, the country’s education landscape has changed dramatically with the mushrooming growth of low cost private schools\, estimated to cater to 42% of school going children today. Evidence for Policy Design’s Learning and Education Achievement in Pakistan Schools (LEAPS) program is leading transformational research to understand the impacts of these changes\, and examining how to catalyze innovation in the education ecosystem of Pakistan. This talk will outline the LEAPS team’s research on how to alleviate system-level constraints to improve education quality and student learning outcomes. Lead researchers on LEAPS are Tahir Andrabi (Pomona)\, Jishnu Das (World Bank) and Asim Khwaja (Harvard Kennedy School). 	See the presentation: Education in Pakistan: What Works to Improve Learning Outcomes? 	About the Speakers:  \nNiharika Singh is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at Harvard University and co-principal investigator on a LEAPS study examining the effects of providing unconditional cash grants to rural low cost private schools in Pakistan. Her research interests span a range of topics in development and labor economics. She received her BA in Economics from McGill University and worked as a research assistant in India and the U.S. prior to graduate school. \nZainab Qureshi is the LEAPS Senior Program Manager at EPoD\, overseeing implementation of Education and policy research in Pakistan. She has previously worked at various organizations across the Education sector in Pakistan\, implementing low cost Education delivery programs and developing an alternate model of education for low income schools. She holds a Master’s in Education (Ed.M.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in Economics and International Development from McGill University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-education-in-pakistan-what-works-to-improve-learning-outcomes/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor – R-429
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SUMMARY:What I Learned as a Political Prisoner in Venezuela with Francisco Lara Marquez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Francisco Lara Marquez MPP 2012\, a Venezuelan lawyer and political activist. Marquez was a political prisoner in Venezuela and later forced into exile in the United States. Tarek Masoud\, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations will moderate. This discussion is part of the Ash Center’s Democracy in Hard Places Initiative.  	Event organized by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, co-sponsored by the Center for International Development. 	About the SpeakerBefore his imprisonment in June 2016\, Marquez was Chief of Staff of the Mayor of El Hatillo in Caracas starting in 2014. Previously he worked with the Lt. Governor of the State of Miranda. He obtained his Law degree in the Catholic University Andres Bello (2009) and his Master in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (2012). He is currently focusing on torture and human rights issues and researching on the erosion of democracy in Venezuela.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/what-i-learned-as-a-political-prisoner-in-venezuela-with-francisco-lara-marquez/
LOCATION:Ash Center Foyer\, 124 Mt. Auburn Street\, Suite 200 North
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