Lee Crawfurd

Good messaging: the way to end PEPFAR is to *win*. Congress is clearly fatigued with a 20-year multi-billion dollar program. The admin wants to kill it. But with the advent of lenacapavir, we're actually closer than ever to being able to actually end PEPFAR... BY ENDING HIV.

The @_AfricanUnion's new Education Strategy encourages its members to invest in cost-effective ways to improve fundamental skills. It points to @GEEAP_ recommendations as an authoritative summary of recommendations. Thank you @_AfricanUnion for recognizing this work!

Britain is subsidising the no-hope lawsuits NIMBYs use to delay housebuilding and infrastructure. In this clip, Kent’s CPRE admit they probably wouldn’t have brought a lawsuit to stop a 160 home development if it wasn’t for the Aarhus Cost Caps.

just 70 years ago people used to spend 1/4 of their income on food people have no idea what life was actually like in the past

Children in Sub-Saharan Africa receive just 3% of the public education funding available to their peers in Europe and North America. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @Nitin_K_Bharti, @amorygethin @mjenmana @ZhexunMO & Li Yang [1/10] 🔗The study and a summary are available…

In the 18th century, there was a real chance of death at any point in life, and there wasn't a big peak in old age. It wasn't just higher infant mortality - the whole distribution was completely different. Great chart by @Scientific_Bird.

Dean Karlan on the funding exodus from development economics research: "The returns to the work that you were just about to do have gone up, not down."

A thread of reactions to the Government neutering Part 3 of the Planning an Infrastructure bill 👇 There are a lot of disappointed YIMBYs out there

This week we featured research on pollution, social norms, gender pay gaps, poverty and more... Read a summary of this work here: voxdev.org/topic/week-dev…

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