The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development hosted a research exchange session bringing together colleagues from the Gates Foundation, LBS Faculty, LBS PhD students, and research collaborators. The session aimed to foster dialogue on institutional priorities, ongoing research, with a particular focus on the Foundations’ Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) division, specifically its work in South…
Jérémie Gallien is the author of several research papers that address healthcare problems in developing economies. He is collaborating with an academic team hailing from London Business School and other institutions in the USA and Liberia and an implementation team of people from the Ministry of Health in Liberia on a research project on reducing…
Across emerging markets, the pursuit of shared prosperity increasingly points to a quiet and often overlooked engine of progress: foundational learning. The ability to read, write, and reason by the early years of primary school shapes every subsequent stage of a student’s educational journey and a country’s economic trajectory. Yet, in many parts of Africa,…
