Education in Pakistan: What works to improve learning outcomes?
b"CID Student Ambassador Abeela Latif interviews Niharika Singh, Ph.D. Student Affiiate, and Zainab Qureshi, Senior Program Manager, both at Harvard University's Evidence for Policy Design Program.\\n\\nNiha and Zainab talk about a decade-long research project lead by the Evidence for Policy Design Program that aims at understanding Pakistan\\u2019s education landscape and examine how to catalyze innovation in the country\\u2019s education ecosystem.\\n\\nwww.cid.harvard.edu / Interview recorded on November 3rd, 2017.\\n\\nAbout the interviewees:\\n\\nNiharika Singh is a PhD candidate in Public Policy at Harvard University and co-principal investigator on a LEAPS study examining the effects of providing unconditional cash grants to rural low cost private schools in Pakistan. Her research interests span a range of topics in development and labor economics. She received her BA in Economics from McGill University and worked as a research assistant in India and the U.S. prior to graduate school.\\n\\nZainab Qureshi is the LEAPS Senior Program Manager at EPoD, overseeing implementation of Education and policy research in Pakistan. She has previously worked at various organizations across the Education sector in Pakistan, implementing low cost Education delivery programs and developing an alternate model of education for low income schools. She holds a Master\\u2019s in Education (Ed.M.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in Economics and International Development from McGill University."