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Zainab Qureshi and Dr. Ayesha Razzaque use evidence from over a decade of LEAPS research to show that private schools in Pakistan are both easily accessible and provide high quality learning. The team’s “systems approach” provides insights on policy reforms that could further improve learning, by asking what obstacles are holding schools back from performing better, and what happens if we alleviate them? The article lays out the four key areas of LEAPS research and the corresponding policy implications: access to finance, access to information, teacher pay and performance, and knowledge and innovation failures.

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