TIME Annual Lecture 2016

Professor Paul Glewwe presented on “Improving School Education Outcomes in Developing Countries: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Policy Implications”.

Paul William Glewwe is an economist and Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include economic development and growth, the economics of the public sector, and poverty and welfare. He formerly was the Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy and served as co-chair of the education programme of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Professor Glewwe's research is on household and individual behavior and welfare in developing countries.  Professor Glewwe's research is on education in those countries; in particular on the factors that determine how long (if it all) children go to school and, more important, how much children learn in school. He also conducts research on inequality, income mobility, poverty, and child nutrition in developing countries, and on education in the U.S.  He has conducted research on the following developing countries: Brazil, China, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Ghana, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.