The document is a media watch report from Raymond Toye at the AfDB that summarizes several recent news articles on topics including education, health, social protection, and budgets/finance from sources in the UK, USA, and Tunisia. It provides brief summaries of articles discussing the importance of education for economic growth, challenges in education in Malawi after 50 years of independence, debates around NHS funding in the UK, criticisms of UK aid on undernutrition policies, health spending comparisons between countries, adoption of the French social security budget despite opposition, and disagreements over Tunisia's supplementary finance law.