Unintended Consequences and Double Standards in the Girl Effect

Here and here are two interesting blog posts on how girl or female-centric development programmes can go awry. They follow from our discussions in seminar this week on how development policies should be take into consideration household dynamics and how they mediate policy effectiveness. And of course, the Davos comparison is priceless: an example of how conditionality may be needed to nudge people beyond just bringing a child to school.