Figure 1: Expansion in primary and secondary education
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Development Progress is a four year research project which aims to better understand, measure and communicate what has worked in development and why. By examining progress across countries, and within sectors, Development Progress provides evidence for what has worked in development.
Box 1: Key initiatives to expand access for Cambodia's poor
Cambodia's progress in basic education
A long process of reconstruction, following genocide and years of instability and civil war, has resulted in substantial progress in Cambodia's education system. Almost all children are now entering school, and far more than before are completing primary. The gender gap in primary and lower secondary has effectively been closed. The rate of improvement has been most notable among girls, in rural and remote areas and among lower income quintiles.
Indonesia's state cohesion and strategic institutional reform
Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous state, rich in natural resources, the largest Muslim-majority nation and a significant player in one of the world's fastest growing regions. It has emerged from a decade of financial, political and environmental crises and is now recognised as an important partner in attempts to address global challenges. For more than three decades, Suharto's New Order regime ruled the country unencumbered by any effective system of checks and balances, often protecting the interests of a narrow subset of Indonesian society.
Figure 1: Programme benefits, 1994-2006
Table 1: Breakdown of incomes generated for rural communities, 2004
Namibia's natural resource management and wildlife conservation
Before independence in 1990, wildlife populations in Namibia's communal areas were plummeting as a result of extensive poaching during prolonged military occupation. By applying lessons from neighbouring countries' attempts at community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), and through its own earlier successes in devolving wildlife management to commercial landholders, the context was set for a national CBNRM programme after independence.
Figure 1: HDI trends, 1980-2005
Mauritius' sustained progress in economic conditions
At independence, Mauritius did not appear predestined for the progress that followed. Challenges included: extreme cultural diversity as well as racial inequality; power concentrated in a small elite; high unemployment; and high population growth. The country suffered from an economic crisis throughout the 1970s, was remote from world markets and was commodity dependent. It also exhibited low initial levels of human development.
Figure 1: External flows to El Salvador, 1980-2008
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Lant PritchettThursday 16th May, 2013
'For some purposes ‘extreme poverty’ is very useful, whereas for others, like measuring progress in middle income countries where ‘extreme poverty’ is very low or focusing on the continued gaps between rich countries and the rest, it is not useful at all...' -
Martin RavallionFriday 10th May, 2013
'I would suggest we think about monitoring two poverty goals going forward: absolute poverty by the $1.25 a day standard and relative poverty by the standards typical of the country one lives in...'
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