Published on 2/3/2012 7:00:00 AM
Jishnu Das, a senior economist in the development research group at The World Bank and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, will be speaking at the School of Education on Friday, February 17. His presentation will focus on reassessing the model of education delivery in low-income settings, where governance and accountability problems in public schools are common.
In his work, Das has strived to improve the delivery of basic services, particularly health and education, using market-level analysis from data collected in Zambia, India, Pakistan, and Paraguay. He was part of the core team in 2011 on the World Development Report on Gender and Development. In 2006, he received the George Bereday Award for best article from the Comparative and International Education Society. Das also co-founded the website
RISE-Pakistan to help coordinate relief in the aftermath of an earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, which was awarded the 2006 Stockholm Challenge Award for the best ICT project in the public administration category. Das received his PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Event Details:
Room 5604 in Posvar Hall
Friday, February 17, 2012
2:00-3:30 p.m.