Lee Crawfurd
Advisor @Rwanda_Edu @InstituteGC /// Fellow @CfEdnEcon /// PhD candidate @SussexUni /// Previously @EPG_Edu @CGDev @riseprogramme @OPMGlobal
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The best book of 2020 - relinquishment
The Precipice by Toby Ord is the best book I’ve read and will likely read this year. According to Ord, if my 1.5 year old daughter reaches the age of 80, there’s a ~10% chance she will die in a human extinction event. This is horrifically sad. Ord’s...
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Toby Ord thinks there is a 1 in 6 chance that humanity will become extinct in the next century
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It is in the national interest for Dominic Cummings to stay
Our society asks a lot of political leaders and their advisers. We should try to cut them some slack
Free to read: Coronavirus tracked: has your country’s epidemic peaked?
Find any country in the live-updating and customisable version of the FT’s Covid-19 trajectory charts
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The log scale graphs are important and everything to see growth, but wow it also seems important to take a look at the normal scale graphs too
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Getting tutoring right to reduce COVID-19 learning loss
Making up for lost learning with effective tutoring.
Freetown just implemented a new tax system that could quintuple revenue - African Arguments
Here’s how it works. In the next few weeks, residents of Freetown are expecting to receive new property tax bills as part of a revamped and more progressive system. Approved as Sierra Leone was entering lockdown in mid-April, the revised arrangement...
Lockdown rollback checklist
Lee Crawfurd
A team from @BlavatnikSchool have also published a Lockdown Rollback Readiness Index.
The countries *least* prepared for rollback (out of 151 countries) are:
1. Iran
2. Algeria
3. Mauritania
4. UK
5. Chad
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Teachers and Technology in the Time of COVID-19
These are my slides on how to maximize complementarity between technology in teachers in general, as well as specifically during the COVID-19 crisis, from a we…
Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries
The total number of people who died from all causes is the best measure of the virus’s true toll
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How much are developing countries under-reporting covid deaths?
In Jakarta excess burials are nearly 10x officially reported covid deaths
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Coronavirus Government Response Tracker
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Here's a list of all the countries with no contact tracing (as of 13th May)
United Kingdom
Angola
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Estonia
Greece
Iran
Iraq
Nicaragua
Solomon Islands
El Salvador
Turkmenistan
Venezuela
Yemen
Data from @BlavatnikSchool
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Why the COVID Crisis Is Not EdTech’s Moment in Africa - The EdTech Hub
This blog was originally posted on the Center for Global Development blog with data used from the EdTech Hub’s database of interventions. Our database, which was initially limited to sub-Saharan Africa, now has a global scope. As the blog suggests,...
Survey on COVID-19 Models
The COVID-19 Multi-model Comparison Consortium (CMCC) is working together with technical/modelling experts, COVID-19 modellers and policy-makers with the aim of enhancing the use of mathematical and computational simulation models to tackle the...
Why the COVID Crisis Is Not Edtech’s Moment in Africa
With schools closed for hundreds of million students around the world, many have hoped that “edtech” can help keep children learning via internet, apps, and mobiles. A new database published by the EdTech Hub shows that though use of edtech products...
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There are 450 million children in sub-Saharan Africa, and just 2 EdTech organisations with over 1 million "users"
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Kenya: 80% of Students Missing Virtual Learning Amid School Closures - Study
A new study now shows about eighty per cent of students are missing out on virtual classes set up following the closure of learning institutions as part of coronavirus containment efforts.
New Found Glory - Let It Go (Official Music Video)
New Found Glory's music video for 'Let It Go' from the album, From The Screen To Your Stereo 3 - available now on Hopeless Records. ► Listen to From The Scre...
Lee Crawfurd
@PJakiela @mosenkis @dylanmatt Have you tried the New Found Glory cover of Let it Go? Total game-changer
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Alastair Campbell: We are witnessing a national catastrophe
Yet neither politicians nor the media seem willing to see it
EXCLUSIVE: Lockdown disaster dwarfs Covid-19, say SA actuaries
Model shows 10% of South Africans will become poorer and lose a few months of their lives
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CSAE Development Economics Webinar - Zaki Wahhaj. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
We’re excited to announce that the next CSAE Development Economics Webinar will be presented by Zaki Wahhaj (University of Kent)
The title of the talk is ‘Can Child Marriage Law Change Attitudes and Behaviour? Experimental Evidence from an...