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Jishnu Das discusses the long-term returns to investments in foundational learning

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Listen to Professor Jishnu Das present some of our most rigorous evidence on the massive financial returns that foundational learning can yield, in conversation with Parthajeet Das from Central Square Foundation in India.

“Investing in foundational learning is turning out to be one of the best interventions in development.”

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