Improving Global Education: Evidence, Cost-Effectiveness, and Political Economy Talk by: Karthik Muralidharan Tata Chancellor's Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego followed by an informal conversation with: Anna Harvey SSRC President Event Recording About the Lecture Solutions to many of today’s key development challenges hinge not on creating new technologies and solutions, but in understanding why the poor do not adopt seemingly beneficial technologies that already exist. Throughout the developing world, there are countless examples of technologies that appear to be welfare enhancing but are adopted by the poor at very low rates. Examples span health, finance, …