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Of 500 million primary school children, almost 80 per cent are not learning minimal reading and maths skills.

Enabling more skilled migration to countries that need more skilled labor could achieve both higher productivity and less inequality. And surveys tend to suggest it’s more politically viable, as skilled migration is...

The Do-Able Dozen: Every dollar spent on these two educational initiatives worldwide would deliver $65 of social benefits.

Improving the futures of children is indeed a no-brainer. Considering our scarce resources, we should prioritise spending $10 billion on proven, effective approaches and deliver on the most important education pledg...

One thing that taxpayers and politicians agree on practically everywhere is that more money should be spent on children’s education.

If politicians were truly serious about ending global inequality, many economists would say there is one obvious policy: Allow greater global migration.

The Do-Able Dozen: Opening the entire world to migration could increase global GDP massively.

Studies routinely suggest that opening the entire world to migration could increase global gross domestic product by a massive 50 to 150 percent. Of course, it would also involve more than two billion workers moving...

The Do-Able Dozen: Just a 10 percentage-point increase in the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets could save 1.3 million lives by the end of this decade.

Most people think of malaria as a problem faced only by humid, hot countries. But just over a century ago, the disease thrived as far north as Siberia and the Arctic Circle, and was endemic in 36 states of the US.