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February 12, 2025
Planned Relocation of Climate-Vulnerable Communities: Preparing Multilateral Development Banks
By: Steven Goldfinch, Samuel Huckstep -
February 10, 2025
Aligning International Banking Regulation with the SDGs
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
January 23, 2025
What Does It Mean for Agencies to Be Effective in a Changing Development Landscape?
By: Rachael Calleja, Sara Casadevall Bellés, Beata Cichocka -
January 21, 2025
The Future of Official Development Assistance: Incremental Improvements or Radical Reform?
By: Masood Ahmed, Rachael Calleja, Pierre Jacquet -
December 17, 2024
Childcare and Early Childhood Development Expenditures in Africa: Comparative Policy Insights for Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment
By: Kelsey Harris, Kehinde Ajayi, Astha Mainali -
December 10, 2024
Multilateral Development Banks in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Overview of Key Policy, Financial, and Operational Issues
By: Koldo Echebarria -
November 13, 2024
Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa
By: Kehinde Ajayi, Estelle Koussoubé -
November 07, 2024
Climate and Development KPIs
By: Ian Mitchell, Edward Wickstead -
October 28, 2024
Localization in Theory and Practice
By: Ranil Dissanayake -
October 08, 2024
Making Migration Work for Adaptation: Classifying Remittances as Climate Finance
By: Samuel Huckstep, Jonathan Beynon -
September 24, 2024
Transforming EU Climate Leadership through CBAM Reform
By: Ian Mitchell, Beata Cichocka -
September 18, 2024
A Win-Win: Migration Partnerships for an Aging EU Workforce
By: Helen Dempster, Pete Baker, Samuel Huckstep -
August 21, 2024
Financing the Pandemic Cycle: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery and Reconstruction
By: Victoria Fan, Sun Kim, Diego Pineda, Stefano Bertozzi -
August 05, 2024
Starting from the Source: Methods and Priorities for Explaining Lead Exposure
By: Rachel Bonnifield -
July 30, 2024
Displacement as a Development Issue: Enabling Public Policy to Unlock Climate Finance in Asia and the Pacific
By: Steven Goldfinch -
July 16, 2024
The EU’s Global Role: A Third Node of Power
By: Mikaela Gavas, W. Gyude Moore -
June 17, 2024
ABCs of the IFIs: Understanding the World Bank’s IDA21 Replenishment
By: Erin Collinson, Clemence Landers, Justin Hurley, Grace Miner -
June 17, 2024
Options for Green-Skilled Migration Partnerships: A Guide for Policymakers
By: Helen Dempster, Samuel Huckstep -
May 09, 2024
Why and How Multilateral Development Banks Support Improved Outcomes for Economic Migrants and Refugees
By: Helen Dempster, Martha Guerrero Ble, Stephanie López Villamil -
April 15, 2024
Disinvesting from Low-Value Health Technologies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Between a Solution to the Current Fiscal Crises and a Costly Mirage?
By: Adrian Gheorghe, Pete Baker -
April 08, 2024
Beyond the “Gavi-Eligible”: High-Leverage Opportunities for Gavi to Enhance Vaccine Access and Uptake in Ineligible Middle-Income Countries
By: Rachel Bonnifield, Morgan Pincombe, Janeen Madan Keller -
March 21, 2024
Maximising EU Concessional Finance for Greater Leverage and Impact: An Options Spread
By: Mikaela Gavas, Samuel Pleeck, Andrew Rogerson, San Bilal, Karim Karaki -
March 06, 2024
How Donors Can Better Support Urban Refugees in Kampala and Nairobi
By: Johnstone Kotut, Anneleen Vos, Helen Dempster, Harrison Tang -
January 31, 2024
Mind the Gap: Bridging the Divide between Cooperation Providers
By: Beata Cichocka, Rachael Calleja, Sara Casadevall Bellés, Emma Mawdsley -
January 23, 2024
Meeting Skill Needs for the Global Green Transition: A Role for Labour Migration?
By: Samuel Huckstep, Helen Dempster -
December 11, 2023
Warming or Cooling on World Bank Climate Finance: What Drives Country Demand?
By: Clemence Landers, Karen Mathiasen, Samuel Matthews -
November 30, 2023
The Future of UK Global Health Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
By: Pete Baker -
November 13, 2023
Forest-Based Carbon Markets: Pitfalls and Opportunities
By: Julián Cárdenas, Juan Jose Guzman Ayala -
November 08, 2023
Haiti’s Failed Quest for Stability and Development after the 2010 Earthquake: Why Did It Go Wrong?
By: Koldo Echebarria -
October 02, 2023
The Post-COVID Consensus
By: Shahid Yusuf -
August 07, 2023
Taking Stock of Organizations with Impact Evaluation Capacity Headquartered in sub-Saharan Africa: A New Database and Landscaping Analysis
By: Julia Kaufman, Justin Hurley, Janeen Madan Keller, Erin Collinson -
July 31, 2023
Overcoming Barriers to Improve Antimicrobial Access, Innovation, and Stewardship in India
By: Parshuram Hotkar, Deepak Jena, Mohammed Abdul Rahman, Snigdha Das Sweety Shreyashi, Javier Guzman -
July 25, 2023
The Resilience and Sustainability Trust: Early Learning and Challenges from Costa Rica and Rwanda
By: Andrew Wainer -
July 25, 2023
The JETPs of South Africa and Indonesia: A Blueprint for the Move Away from Coal?
By: Annika Seiler, Hannah Brown, Samuel Matthews -
June 20, 2023
What Would the Ideal Development and Climate MDB Look Like?
By: Nancy Lee, Valerie Laxton, Samuel Matthews -
June 14, 2023
What Counts as Climate? Preliminary Evidence from the World Bank’s Climate Portfolio
By: Guido Núñez-Mujica, Vijaya Ramachandran, Scott Morris -
June 07, 2023
Adaptive Management in Refugee Programming: Lessons from Re:Build
By: Helen Dempster, Nicol Herbert -
May 11, 2023
Gender Integration in Multilateral Development Banks’ COVID-19 Response Efforts
By: Shelby Bourgault, Megan O'Donnell, Mia Griffin -
May 09, 2023
Climate Change and Migration: An Overview for Policymakers and Development Practitioners
By: Samuel Huckstep, Michael Clemens -
March 16, 2023
Reforming the World Bank to Play a Critical Role in Addressing Climate Change
By: Pedro Albarran, Patricia Bliss-Guest, Laura Tuck -
January 19, 2023
MENA and the Global Energy Conundrum
By: Rabah Arezki, Adnan Mazarei -
December 17, 2022
Prioritizing Public Spending on Health in Lower-Income Countries: The Role of the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents
By: Janeen Madan Keller, Rachel Silverman, Julia Kaufman, Amanda Glassman -
December 14, 2022
Climate Finance Effectiveness: Six Challenging Trends
By: Beata Cichocka, Ian Mitchell -
December 08, 2022
Estimating Japan’s Return on Investment from an Ambitious Program to Incentivize New Antibiotics
By: Rachel Silverman, Adrian Towse -
December 08, 2022
Estimating the UK's Return on Investment from an Ambitious Program to Incentivize New Antibiotics
By: Rachel Silverman, Adrian Towse -
December 08, 2022
Estimating the EU's Return on Investment from an Ambitious Program to Incentivize New Antibiotics
By: Rachel Silverman, Adrian Towse -
December 08, 2022
Estimating Canada’s Return on Investment from an Ambitious Program to Incentivize New Antibiotics
By: Rachel Silverman, Adrian Towse -
December 07, 2022
Economic Integration of Venezuelan Immigrants in Colombia: A Policy Roadmap
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November 28, 2022
Operation Warp Speed, Encore: A Case for US Leadership to Drive Market-Based Global Health Innovation
By: Rachel Silverman -
November 15, 2022
An Ambitious USG Advanced Commitment for Subscription-Based Purchasing of Novel Antimicrobials and Its Expected Return on Investment
By: Rachel Silverman, Adrian Towse -
November 08, 2022
A Global Development Paradigm for a World in Crisis
By: Rachael Calleja, Beata Cichocka, Mikaela Gavas, Samuel Pleeck -
November 03, 2022
Building a Portfolio of Pull Financing Mechanisms for Climate and Development
By: Ranil Dissanayake, Bernat Camps Adrogue -
November 03, 2022
Pathways for Labor Migration from Northern Central America: Five Difficult but Necessary Proposals
By: Michael A. Clemens -
October 24, 2022
Costing Healthcare Services Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simple Step-By-Step Guide for Data Collection and Analysis
By: Lumbwe Chola, Ryan McBain, Y-Ling Chi -
October 18, 2022
Do Cash Transfers Deter Migration?
By: Michael A. Clemens -
October 11, 2022
The ABCs of Sovereign Debt Relief
By: Rakan Aboneaaj, Jocilyn Estes, Clemence Landers -
October 06, 2022
Reforming the World Bank and MDBs to Meet Shared Global Challenges
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October 04, 2022
The Next Game Changers: A Priority Innovation Agenda for Global Health
By: Cordelia Kenney, Rachel Silverman -
October 04, 2022
Is There a Better Way to Use Global Reserves?
By: Mark Plant -
September 29, 2022
What’s the Best Way to Bolster the IMF’s Capacity to Lend to Low-Income Countries?
By: David Andrews -
August 22, 2022
Why and How Development Agencies Facilitate Labor Migration
By: Helen Dempster, Beza Tesfaye -
August 03, 2022
Healthier Firms for a Stronger Recovery: Policies to Support Business and Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean
By: Andrew Powell, Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
August 01, 2022
ABCs of the IFIs: The African Development Fund’s 16th Replenishment
By: Jocilyn Estes, Erin Collinson -
July 19, 2022
Breakthrough to Policy Use: Reinvigorating Impact Evaluation for Global Development
By: Julia Kaufman, Amanda Glassman, Ruth Levine, Janeen Madan Keller -
July 19, 2022
Leveraging Knowledge Generation for Policy Impact: Recommendations for the World Bank
By: Amanda Glassman, Julia Kaufman, Ruth Levine, Janeen Madan Keller -
July 19, 2022
Mainstreaming Evidence Use through Locally Led Development: Recommendations for USAID
By: Janeen Madan Keller, Amanda Glassman, Julia Kaufman, Ruth Levine -
July 19, 2022
Breakthrough to Policy Use Reinvigorating Impact Evaluation for Global Development
By: Julia Kaufman, Amanda Glassman, Ruth Levine, Janeen Madan Keller -
June 30, 2022
The IMF, Africa, and Climate Change—Making Sense of an Implausible Trilogy
By: Daniel Citrin, Daouda Sembene -
June 23, 2022
A Package of Reforms for Financing Pandemic Preparedness and Response for the G7
By: Amanda Glassman, Eleni Smitham -
June 08, 2022
Let Them Eat Carbon
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Arthur Baker -
June 06, 2022
Assessment of Expenditure Choices by Low- and Low- Middle-Income Countries During the Pandemic and Their Impact on SDGs
By: Sanjeev Gupta, Lucas Sala -
May 19, 2022
The Future of the European Financial Architecture for Development
By: Mikaela Gavas -
May 12, 2022
Girls’ Education and Women’s Equality: How to Get More out of the World’s Most Promising Investment
By: Shelby Carvalho, David Evans -
May 11, 2022
A Fund for Global Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness
By: Amanda Glassman, Eleni Smitham, Erin Collinson -
May 09, 2022
COVID-19, Long-Term Care, and Migration in Asia
By: Azusa Sato, Helen Dempster -
May 03, 2022
Responding to Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis: The Potential Role of Digital Payments
By: Michael Pisa -
April 29, 2022
ABCs of the IFIs: Understanding IDA20
By: Jocilyn Estes, Erin Collinson -
April 21, 2022
Understanding the Cost-Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination in Nigeria
By: Helen Dempster, Jennifer Dew, Samuel Huckstep, Martina Castigliono, Cassandra Zimmer -
April 21, 2022
Schooling for All: Feasible Strategies to Achieve Universal Education
By: Justin Sandefur -
April 11, 2022
Beyond India’s Lockdown: PMGKY Benefits During the COVID-19 Crisis and the State of Digital Payments
By: Alan Gelb, Anurodh Giri, Anit Mukherjee, Ritesh Rautela, Mitul Thapliyal, Brian Webster -
March 31, 2022
Recommendations for US-Africa Space Cooperation and Development
By: Rose Croshier -
March 31, 2022
Development Effectiveness in the “New Normal”: What Do the Changing Roles and Purposes of ODA Mean for the Effectiveness Agenda?
By: Rachael Calleja, Beata Cichocka -
March 04, 2022
East Asian Cities: Past Development and Onrushing Challenges
By: Shahid Yusuf -
February 16, 2022
Social Protection in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from South Africa
By: Lena Gronbach, Jeremy Seekings, Vayda Megannon -
February 15, 2022
Domestic Revenue Mobilization and Debt Relief: The Lack of Any Link
By: Mark Plant, Nancy Lee -
February 09, 2022
Stuck Near Ten Billion: Public-Private Infrastructure Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Nancy Lee, Mauricio Cardenas Gonzalez -
February 07, 2022
Greening the US Sovereign Bond Guarantee Program: A Proposal to Boost Climate-Directed Sovereign Finance in Developing Countries
By: Scott Morris, Rowan Rockafellow, Alan Cameron -
January 20, 2022
Country Platforms and Delivery of Global Public Goods
By: Daouda Sembene, Nancy Lee, Mark Plant -
January 14, 2022
IDB COVID-19 Response Projects and Gender Integration
By: Shelby Bourgault, Kelsey Ross, Megan O'Donnell -
December 20, 2021
Two Birds, One Budget: Using ODA for Influence and Development in the Indo-Pacific?
By: Rachael Calleja, Sam Hughes, Beata Cichocka -
December 14, 2021
Strengthening Regional Policy Frameworks to Better Respond to Environmental Migration: Recommendations for the UK Government
By: Amelia Dal Pra, Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, Helen Dempster -
December 14, 2021
Facilitating Environmental Migration through Humanitarian and Labour Pathways: Recommendations for the UK Government
By: Helen Dempster, Amelia Dal Pra, Mariam Traore Chazalnoel -
December 10, 2021
Addressing the “Root Causes” of Irregular Migration from Central America: An Evidence Agenda for USAID
By: Sarah Rose, Reva Resstack, Helen Dempster, Elisa Cascardi, Jeremy Weinstein -
December 06, 2021
How Can Multilateral Organizations Strengthen Global Data Governance Practices? Roundtable Summary
By: Michael Pisa, Ugonma Nwankwo -
November 22, 2021
Who’s Responsible for Climate Change? New Evidence Based on Country-Level Estimates of Climate Debt
By: Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta, Jianhong Liu -
November 18, 2021
Mapping China’s Participation in Multilateral Development Institutions and Funds
By: Scott Morris, Rowan Rockafellow, Sarah Rose -
November 18, 2021
Mapping China’s Multilateralism: A Data Survey of China’s Participation in Multilateral Development Institutions and Funds
By: Scott Morris, Rowan Rockafellow, Sarah Rose -
November 17, 2021
Meeting the Global Health Challenge to Reduce Death and Disability from Alcohol, Tobacco, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption with Corrective Taxes
By: Chris Lane, Vinayak Bhardwaj -
November 10, 2021
Navigating the Straits: Pull Financing for Climate and Development Outcomes
By: Ranil Dissanayake -
October 28, 2021
Translating Results-Based Financing from Theory to Operational Reality: Lessons from the Practical Application of RBF at the European Commission
By: Rachel Silverman -
October 28, 2021
How Do Humanitarian Donors Make Decisions, and What Is the Scope for Change?
By: Rose Worden, Patrick Saez -
October 26, 2021
Are Development Finance Institutions Good Value for Money?
By: Paddy Carter -
October 22, 2021
Valuing Climate Liabilities: Calculating the Cost of Countries’ Historical Damage from Carbon Emissions to Inform Future Climate Finance Commitments
By: Lee Robinson, Ian Mitchell -
October 22, 2021
Some Unpleasant ODA Arithmetic
By: Ranil Dissanayake, Atousa Tahmasebi -
October 21, 2021
Effective Humanitarian Governance
By: Patrick Saez, Jeremy Konyndyk, Rose Worden -
October 14, 2021
A Pacific Skills Visa: Improving Opportunities for Skilled Migration Throughout the Pacific Region
By: -
October 13, 2021
Convergence, Development, and Energy-Intensive Infrastructure: Getting Africa to High-Income Status
By: Vijaya Ramachandran -
October 13, 2021
Strengthening the Global Care Economy: A Roadmap for the Biden-Harris Administration
By: Megan O'Donnell, Mayra Buvinic, Shelby Bourgault -
September 29, 2021
Rethinking Humanitarian Reform: What Will it Take to Truly Change the System?
By: Patrick Saez, Jeremy Konyndyk, Rose Worden -
September 13, 2021
The Commitment to Development Index 2021
By: Ian Mitchell, Lee Robinson, Beata Cichocka, Euan Ritchie -
September 01, 2021
Operationalizing Climate Adaptation at the US International Development Finance Corporation: The Case for an Agriculture-Led Agenda in Low-Income Countries
By: Clemence Landers, Jocilyn Estes, Scott Morris -
August 25, 2021
How Effectively Is the Asian Development Bank Responding to COVID-19? An Early Assessment
By: Azusa Sato, Rakan Aboneaaj, Scott Morris -
August 13, 2021
The Case for Transparency in Power Project Contracts: A Proposal for the Creation of Global Disclosure Standards and PPA Watch
By: Mohamed Rali Badissy, Charles Kenny, Todd Moss -
August 11, 2021
A Review of Multilateral Development Banks’ Investments in Childcare
By: Megan O'Donnell, Kelsey Ross, Shelby Bourgault -
August 11, 2021
Enabling US Government Participation in Pull Mechanisms for Social Impact Innovation: A Survey of Federal Authorities, Budgetary Barriers, and Potential Solutions
By: Steven Kosiak, Rachel Silverman -
August 09, 2021
Do Evolving Digital Trade Rules Create an Uneven Playing Field? Understanding Global Perspectives
By: Michael Pisa, Ugonma Nwankwo -
August 09, 2021
Are Current Models of Data Protection Fit for Purpose? Understanding the Consequences for Economic Development
By: Michael Pisa, Ugonma Nwankwo -
July 28, 2021
Binding Constraints on Digital Financial Inclusion in Indonesia: An Analysis Using the Decision Tree Approach
By: Firman Witoelar, Teguh Yudo Wicaksono, Carlos Mangunsong -
July 20, 2021
Exploring How the US International Development Finance Corporation Can Support Health Sector Investments: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
By: Julia Kaufman, Janeen Madan Keller, Rachel Silverman -
July 19, 2021
Why Europe Should Build Legal Migration Pathways with Nigeria
By: -
July 19, 2021
Expanding Legal Migration Pathways from Nigeria to Europe: From Brain Drain to Brain Gain
By: Samik Adhikari, Michael Clemens, Helen Dempster, Nkechi Linda Ekeator -
July 08, 2021
Identifying Binding Constraints on Digital Payment Services in Ethiopia: An Application of a Decision Tree Framework
By: Getnet Alemu, Tadele Ferde, Alejandro Fiorito -
July 07, 2021
Financing the Humanitarian Public Good: Towards a More Effective Humanitarian Financing Model
By: Emmanuel Saez, Jeremy Konyndyk, Rose Worden -
July 06, 2021
A Decision Tree for Digital Payment Services: The Case of Mexico
By: Ivonne Acevedo, Miguel Szekely -
July 06, 2021
Searching for the Binding Constraint to Digital Financial Inclusion in Pakistan: A Decision Tree Approach
By: Imran Khan, Karrar Hussain Jaffar -
June 09, 2021
Improving Performance in the Multilateral Humanitarian System: New Models of Donorship
By: Patrick Saez, Lewis Sida, Rachel Silverman, Rose Worden -
June 04, 2021
A Path to Resiliency: Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Essential Medicines Supply Chains
By: Anthony McDonnell, Elizabeth Pisani, Somya Singhvi -
May 27, 2021
Ethical Recruitment of Health Workers: Using Bilateral Cooperation to Fulfill the World Health Organization’s Global Code of Practice
By: Michael Clemens, Helen Dempster -
May 25, 2021
The Quality of Official Development Assistance
By: Ian Mitchell, Rachael Calleja, Sam Hughes -
May 05, 2021
Incentivising Investment in Human Capital through the European Fund for Sustainable Development
By: Mikaela Gavas, Samuel Pleeck -
April 29, 2021
An Analysis of the Binding Constraints on Digital Financial Inclusion in India Using a Decision Tree Methodology
By: Nandini Harihareswara, Howard Miller -
April 13, 2021
A Review of the 2X Women’s Initiative: Recommendations for the Biden-Harris Administration
By: Megan O'Donnell, Jocilyn Estes -
April 12, 2021
Unpacking Gender Gaps and Data Gaps in Public Sector Employment and Pay
By: Ugonma Nwankwo, Megan O'Donnell, Charles Kenny -
April 07, 2021
Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis’s Indirect Health Impacts for Women and Girls
By: Carleigh Krubiner, Megan O'Donnell, Julia Kaufman, Shelby Bourgault -
April 07, 2021
Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment in the COVID-19 Context
By: Megan O'Donnell, Mayra Buvinic, Charles Kenny, Shelby Bourgault, George Yang -
April 07, 2021
The Gendered Dimensions of Social Protection in the COVID-19 Context
By: Megan O'Donnell, Mayra Buvinic, Shelby Bourgault, Brian Webster -
March 23, 2021
How Do Development Agencies Support Climate Action?
By: Rachael Calleja -
February 05, 2020
Actually Navigating by Judgment: Towards a New Paradigm of Donor Accountability Where the Current System Doesn’t Work
By: Dan Hoing -
February 05, 2020
Blueprint for a Market-Driven Value-Based Advance Commitment for Tuberculosis
By: Kalipso Chalkidou, Martina Garau, Rachel Silverman, Adrian Towse -
February 05, 2020
Managing Better: What All of Us Can Do to Encourage Aid Success
By: Dan Hoing -
January 31, 2020
From Principles to Practice: Strengthening Accountability for Gender Equality in International Development
By: Megan O'Donnell -
January 30, 2020
A Post-Brexit Trade Policy for Development and a More Integrated Africa
By: Kimberly Ann Elliott -
January 21, 2020
Senegal: Making Domestic Resource Mobilization Work to Sustain Growth and Improve Service Delivery
By: Birahim Bouna Niang, Ahmadoi Aly Mbaye -
January 13, 2020
Constraints to Enhanced Revenue Mobilization and Spending Quality in Kenya
By: Nelson H.W. Wawire -
January 10, 2020
Creating an Accountability Framework that Serves the Global Fragility Act’s Mission
By: Susanna Campbell, Dan Hoing, Sarah Rose -
January 07, 2020
Gender Gaps in Education: The Long View
By: David Evans, Maryam Akmal, Pamela Jakiela -
November 12, 2019
Taxing “Bads”: An Overview of Research Initiatives
By: Ruth Lopert -
November 12, 2019
Lending Terms for IFAD Projects
By: Scott Morris, Jessie Lu -
November 07, 2019
Gender Equality in US Think Tank Leadership: Data from Tax Records
By: Charles Kenny, Julian Duggan -
November 01, 2019
A Smoother Trade Transition for Graduating LDCs
By: Kimberly Ann Elliott -
October 31, 2019
Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
By: Gaurav Khana, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo -
October 24, 2019
Promoting New Kinds of Legal Labour Migration Pathways Between Europe and Africa
By: Michael Clemens, Helen Dempster, Kate Gough -
October 24, 2019
Ecological Fiscal Transfers and Subnational Budgets: Did Forest-Based Fiscal Devolution Lead Indian States to Increase Forestry Expenditure?
By: Jonah Busch, Avani Kapur, Anit Mukherjee -
October 23, 2019
Can the US Development Finance Corporation Compete?
By: Charles Kenny -
October 22, 2019
Focusing on Fragility: The Future of US Assistance to Fragile States
By: Sarah Rose -
October 22, 2019
Automation and AI: Implications for African Development Prospects?
By: Charles Kenny -
October 16, 2019
Strengthening European Leadership on Global Health Security
By: Amanda Glassman, Jeremy Konyndyk, Liesl Schnabel -
October 16, 2019
Redesigning the External Investment Plan to be a Game-Changer for Africa
By: Mikaela Gavas -
October 16, 2019
Reforming EU Trade Policy to Accelerate Economic Transformation in Africa
By: Hannah Timmis, Ian Mitchell -
October 11, 2019
What Is “Country Ownership”? A Formal Exploration of the Aid Relationship
By: William Savedoff -
October 11, 2019
ABCs of the IFIs: The African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development
By: Scott Morris, Erin Collinson, Alysha Gardner -
October 09, 2019
Five Principles for Use of Aid in Subsidies to the Private Sector
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October 04, 2019
When Does “What Works” Work? And What Does that Mean for UK Aid R&D Spend?
By: Charles Kenny, Euan Ritchie, G. Lee Robinson -
October 03, 2019
Moving Beyond the Emergency: A Whole of Society Approach to the Refugee Response in Bangladesh
By: Lauren Post, Rachel Landry, Cindy Huang -
October 03, 2019
Multilingual Assessment of Early Child Development: Analyses from Repeated Observations of Children in Kenya
By: Heather A. Knauer, Patricia Kariger, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Lia C.H. Fernald -
September 27, 2019
Teacher Professional Development around the World: The Gap between Evidence and Practice
By: Anna Popova, David Evans, Mary E. Breeding, Violeta Arancibia -
September 24, 2019
Why Uncertainty in Global Health Interventions Matters—and What We Can Do About It
By: Kalipso Chalkidou, Anupama Dathan, Francis Ruiz -
September 24, 2019
Marginal, Not Transformational: Development Finance Institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals
By: Charles Kenny -
September 20, 2019
Are the Pacific Islands Insurable? Challenges and Opportunities for Disaster Risk Finance
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Junaid Sadiq Masood -
September 18, 2019
People-Driven Response: Power and Participation in Humanitarian Action
By: Jeremy Konyndyk, Rose Worden -
September 13, 2019
Building on Digital ID for Inclusive Services: Lessons from India
By: Alan Gelb, Anit Mukherjee -
September 12, 2019
The Political Economy of Testing in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Barbara Bruns, Maryam Akmal, Nancy Birdsall -
September 04, 2019
Building an EU-Africa Partnership of Equals: A Roadmap for the New European Leadership
By: Anita Kappeli -
August 08, 2019
Promoting Investment in Research for Development Outcomes: A Research Ventures Fund at the World Bank
By: Scott Morris -
August 07, 2019
Five Takeaways on the Future of Humanitarian Reform
By: Jeremy Konyndyk -
August 06, 2019
Digital Technology and State Capacity in Kenya
By: Njuguna Ndung'u -
July 31, 2019
“Contractors or Collectives?” Earmarked Funding of Multilaterals, Donor Needs and Institutional Integrity: The World Bank as a Case Study
By: Owen Barder, Euan Ritchie, Andrew Rogerson -
July 29, 2019
Five Things the Health Minister Should Do to Enhance the UK’s Global Health Footprint
By: Kalipso Chalkidou -
July 25, 2019
UK Research Aid: Tied, Opaque and Off-Topic?
By: G. Lee Robinson, Euan Ritchie, Charles Kenny -
July 24, 2019
Trends in Private Capital Flows to Low-Income Countries: Good and Not-So-Good News
By: Nancy Lee, Asad Sami -
July 24, 2019
Chinese Leadership and the Future of BRI: What Key Decisions Lie Ahead?
By: Brad Parks -
July 18, 2019
Mexico’s Financial Risks: Solving Pemex for a Solvent Mexico
By: Laura Alfaro, Augusto de la Torre, Guillermo Calvo, Roque Fernandez, Pablo Guidotti, Paulo Leme, Enrique G. Mendoza, Guillermo Perry, Carmen M. Reinhart, Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
July 18, 2019
Unequal Ventures: Results from an Endline Study of Gender and Entrepreneurship in East Java, Indonesia
By: Mayra Buvinic, Erika Deserranno, Hillary C. Johnson, James C. Knowles, Gianmarco Leon, Firman Witoelar -
July 18, 2019
What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions that Do Not Focus on Girls
By: David Evans, Fei Yuan -
July 15, 2019
Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships
By: Michael Clemens, Helen Dempster, Kate Gough -
July 11, 2019
Fuel Subsidy Reform and Green Taxes: Can Digital Technologies Improve State Capacity and Effectiveness?
By: Alan Gelb, Anit Mukherjee -
July 02, 2019
Creating Opportunities for Rohingya Refugees and Hosts Through Forest Landscape Restoration
By: Heather Tallis, Cindy Huang, John Herbohn, Karen Holl, Sharif A. Mukul, Kam Morshed -
July 02, 2019
Tackling the Triple Transition in Global Health Procurement
By: Rachel Silverman, Janeen Madan Keller, Amanda Glassman, Kalipso Chalkidou -
July 01, 2019
Transforming the Institutional Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for Leveraging Africa’s Research Capacity to Achieve Socioeconomic Development
By: Alex Ezeh, Jessie Lu -
June 27, 2019
Digital Governance: Is Krishna a Glimpse of the Future?
By: Arshi Aadil, Alan Gelb, Anurodh Giri, Kyle Navis -
June 24, 2019
Vaccine Introduction and Coverage in Gavi-Supported Countries 2015-2018: Implications for Gavi 5.0
By: Roxanne Oroxom, Amanda Glassman -
June 24, 2019
Global Immunization and Gavi: Five Priorities for the Next Five Years
By: Amanda Glassman, Cordelia Kenney, Janeen Madan Keller -
June 17, 2019
World Bank Financing to Support Refugees and Their Hosts: Recommendations for IDA19
By: Lauren Post, Cindy Huang, Sarah Charles -
June 17, 2019
Tackling the Triple Transition in Global Health Procurement
By: Rachel Silverman, Amanda Glassman, Kalipso Chalkidou, Janeen Madan Keller -
June 12, 2019
Developing a More Inclusive US Trade Policy at Home and Abroad
By: Kimberly Ann Elliott -
June 11, 2019
Examining the Impact of E-Procurement in Ukraine
By: Artur Kovalchuk, Charles Kenny, Mallika Snyder -
June 05, 2019
Removing Barriers and Closing Gaps: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities
By: Liesl Schnabel, Cindy Huang -
June 05, 2019
Imagining the Alternative Worlds of 2030: Policy Implications for the Future of Global Health Procurement
By: Janeen Madam Keller, William Savedoff -
June 05, 2019
Public Financial Management and the Digitalization of Payments
By: Marco Cangiano, Alan Gelb, Ruth Goodwin-Groen -
May 31, 2019
After 2020: What’s Next for Global Access to Family Planning
By: Felice Apter, Amanda Glassman, Janeen Madam Keller -
May 24, 2019
The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education (and Far Beyond): Why More Accounting Will Rarely Solve Accountability Problems
By: Dan Hoing, Lant Pritchett -
May 23, 2019
Does the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Help or Hinder Financial Inclusion? A Study of FATF Mutual Evaluation Reports
By: Michael Pisa -
May 23, 2019
Understanding the Opportunity Cost, Seizing the Opportunity: Report of the Working Group on Incorporating Economics and Modelling in Global Health Goals and Guidelines
By: The Working Group on Incorporating Economics and Modeling in Global Health Goals and Guidelines -
May 17, 2019
The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project
By: Scott Morris -
May 11, 2019
Modicare Post-Election: Recommendations to Enhance the Impact of Public Health Insurance on UHC Goals in India
By: Kalipso Chalkidou, Nishant Jain, Françoise Cluzeau, Amanda Glassman -
May 10, 2019
Where Do Internally Displaced People Live and What Does that Mean for Their Economic Integration?
By: Cindy Huang, Jimmy Graham -
May 10, 2019
How Urban are IDPs and What Does that Mean for Their Economic Integration?
By: Cindy Huang, Jimmy Graham -
May 09, 2019
Struggling with Scale: Ebola’s Lessons for the Next Pandemic
By: Jeremy Konyndyk -
May 01, 2019
Aggregating Demand for Pharmaceuticals is Appealing, but Pooling Is Not a Panacea
By: Cassandra Nemzoff, Kalipso Chalkidou, Mead Over -
May 01, 2019
Downsizing Defense in Development: Unpacking DOD’s Development Assistance
By: Sarah Rose -
April 23, 2019
Who Benefits from Pharmaceutical Price Controls? Evidence from India
By: Emma Boswell Dean -
April 23, 2019
Making Basel III Work for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
By: Thorsten Beck, Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
April 19, 2019
The Dos and Don’ts of USG Humanitarian Reorganization
By: Jeremy Konyndyk -
April 10, 2019
Pooled Procurement of Drugs in Low and Middle Income Countries
By: Pierre Dubois, Yassine Lefouili, Stephane Straub -
April 08, 2019
WHO Technical Report on Cancer Pricing Misses the Mark—It Should Focus on the “Demand Side”
By: Kalipso Chalkidou, Adrian Towse, Richard Sullivan -
April 03, 2019
Can Transparency Lower Prices and Improve Access to Pharmaceuticals? It Depends
By: Kalipso Chalkidou, Adrian Towse -
March 26, 2019
Midline Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase the Utilization of Financial Services by Women Business Owners in Rural Indonesia
By: James C. Knowles -
March 26, 2019
The Machines Are Not So Easy to Ride: Another Take on Automation
By: Bright Simons -
March 21, 2019
The Limits (And Human Costs) of Population Policy: Fertility Decline and Sex Selection in China under Mao
By: Kimberly Singer Babiarz, Paul Ma, Grant Miller, Shige Song -
March 21, 2019
Why “Leapfrogging” in Frontier Markets Isn’t Working
By: Bright Simons -
March 07, 2019
The Principles on Commercial Transparency in Public Contracts
By: The Working Group on Commercial Transparency in Public Contracts -
March 01, 2019
A Short-Sighted Vision for Global Britain
By: Owen Barder, Hannah Timmis, Arthur Baker -
February 27, 2019
Learning Equity Requires More than Equality: Learning Goals and Achievement Gaps between the Rich and the Poor in Five Developing Countries
By: Maryam Akmal, Lant Pritchett -
February 25, 2019
Improving Global Health Supply Chains through Traceability
By: Michael Pisa, Denise McCurdy -
February 14, 2019
Women and the Future of Work: Fix the Present
By: Charles Kenny -
February 07, 2019
Toward Medium-Term Solutions for Rohingya Refugees and Hosts in Bangladesh: Mapping Potential Responsibility-Sharing Contributions
By: Cindy Huang, Kate Gough -
February 07, 2019
Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence
By: Thiemo Fetzer, Stephan Kyburz -
February 07, 2019
Enhancing Young Children’s Language Acquisition through Parent-Child Book-Sharing: A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya
By: Heather A. Knauer, Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Frances Aboud, Lia C.H. Fernald -
February 05, 2019
Governing Big Tech’s Pursuit of the “Next Billion Users”
By: Michael Pisa, John Polcari -
February 05, 2019
The Two Hundred Billion Dollar Question: How to Get the Biggest Impact from the 2019 Replenishments
By: Andrew Rogerson, Owen Barder -
January 31, 2019
International Development Cooperation After Brexit
By: Mikaela Gavas -
January 31, 2019
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
By: Michael Clemens -
January 14, 2019
Gendered Language
By: Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier -
January 11, 2019
The EU’s Financial Architecture for External Investment: Progress, Challenges, and Options
By: Hannah Timmis, Mikaela Gavas -
January 11, 2019
The EU’s Financial Architecture for External Investment: Progress, Challenges, and Options
By: Hannah Timmis, Mikaela Gavas -
January 10, 2019
Examining World Bank Lending to China: Graduation or Modulation?
By: Scott Morris, Gailyn Portelance -
January 07, 2019
Who Are the World’s Poor? A New Profile of Global Multidimensional Poverty
By: Gisela Robles Aguilar, Andy Sumner -
December 18, 2018
UK Aid Quality Indicators
By: Caitlin McKee, Ian Mitchell, Arthur Baker -
December 17, 2018
The International Development Finance Club and the Sustainable Development Goals
By: Scott Morris -
December 14, 2018
Global and Local Challenges in Argentina and Brazil
By: Guillermo Calvo -
December 14, 2018
Development Impact Bonds Targeting Health Outcomes
By: Lorcan Clarke, Kalipso Chalkidou, Cassandra Nemzoff -
December 01, 2018
Joint Humanitarian Operations
By: Jeremy Konyndyk -
December 01, 2018
U.S. Policy Responses to Zimbabwe’s Illusory Reforms
By: Todd Moss -
December 01, 2018
It’s Like That and That’s the Way It Is? Evaluating Education Policy
By: Susannah Hares -
December 01, 2018
Coming to Terms with China at the World Bank and in Development Finance
By: Scott Morris -
December 01, 2018
The Dilemma of the African Development Bank: Does Governance Matter for the Long-Run Financing of the MDBs?
By: Nancy Birdsall -
November 01, 2018
A Tool to Implement the Global Compact for Migration: Ten Key Steps for Building Global Skill Partnerships
By: Michael Clemens, Kate Gough -
November 01, 2018
The Medium-Run and Scale-Up Effects of Performance-Based Financing
By: Diana Ngo, Sebastian Bauhoff -
June 21, 2017
Measuring Rents from Public Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya - Working Paper 457
By: Justin Sandefur, Tessa Bold, Nicholas Barton -
June 01, 2017
Do Age-of-Marriage Laws Work? Evidence from a Large Sample of Developing Countries
By: Matt Collin, Theodore Talbot -
May 22, 2017
The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results
By: Michael Clemens, Jennifer Hunt -
May 22, 2017
Gender Matters in Economic Empowerment Interventions: A Research Review
By: Mayra Buvinic, Megan O'Donnell -
May 11, 2017
Identification as a National Priority: The Unique Case of Peru
By: William Reuben, Flávia Carbonari -
May 01, 2017
Ethnic Politics and Ebola Response in West Africa
By: Souleymane Soumahoro -
April 20, 2017
Gender Laws, Values, and Outcomes: Evidence from the World Values Survey
By: Charles Kenny, Dev Patel -
April 19, 2017
Payouts for Perils How Insurance Can Radically Improve Emergency Aid
By: Theodore Talbot, Stefan Dercon, Owen Barder -
April 18, 2017
Refugee Compacts: Addressing the Crisis of Protracted Displacement
By: Cindy Huang, Nazanin Ash -
March 22, 2017
The Impact of the Tax System and Social Expenditure on the Distribution of Income and Poverty in Latin America
By: Nora Lustig -
March 04, 2017
Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
By: Michael Clemens, Ethan Lewis, Hannah Postel -
February 28, 2017
Expanding Global Liquidity Insurance: Myths and Realities of the IMF’s Precautionary Credit Lines
By: Nancy Birdsall, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Anna Diofasi -
January 30, 2017
Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Low and Middle Income Countries
By: Nora Lustig -
January 03, 2017
Analytic Foundations: Measuring the Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Transfers
By: Ali Enami, Nora Lustig, Rodrigo Aranda -
January 03, 2017
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in El Salvador
By: Nora Lustig, Margarita Beneke, José Andrés Oliva -
November 11, 2016
Aligning to 2020: How the FP2020 Core Partners Can Work Better, Together
By: Rachel Silverman, Amanda Glassman -
November 02, 2016
Revisiting What Works: Women, Economic Empowerment and Smart Design
By: Mayra Buvinic, Megan O’Donnell -
October 05, 2016
Multilateral Development Banking for this Century's Development Challenges: Five Recommendations to Shareholders of the Old and New Multilateral Development Banks
By: Nancy Birdsall, Scott Morris -
September 13, 2016
Shared Border, Shared Future: A Blueprint to Regulate US-Mexico Labor Mobility
By: Carlos Gutierrez, Ernesto Zedillo, Michael Clemens -
April 12, 2016
More Than a Lightbulb: Five Recommendations to Make Modern Energy Access Meaningful for People and Prosperity
By: Todd Moss -
March 22, 2016
Financial Regulations for Improving Financial Inclusion
By: Stijn Claessens, Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
December 15, 2015
Aligning Incentives, Accelerating Impact
By: Rachel Silverman, Mead Over, Sebastian Bauhoff -
December 12, 2015
Power to the States: Making Fiscal Transfers Work for Better Health
By: Center for Global Development -
November 15, 2015
Better Hospitals, Better Health Systems, Better Health – A Proposal for a Global Hospital Collaborative for Emerging Economies
By: Center for Global Development -
September 09, 2015
Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
By: Michael Clemens -
September 08, 2015
Philanthropy, Welfare Capitalism or Radically Different Global Economic Model: What Would It Take to End Global Poverty within a Generation Based on Historical Growth Patterns?
By: Peter Edward, Andy Sumner -
September 03, 2015
The Politics of Priority Setting in Health: A Political Economy Perspective
By: Katharina Hauck, Peter C. Smith -
August 31, 2015
Taxes: Price of Civilization or Tribute to Leviathan?
By: Lant Pritchett, Yamini Aiyar -
August 24, 2015
The Future of Forests: Emissions from Tropical Deforestation with and without a Carbon Price, 2016–2050
By: Jonah Busch, Jens Engelmann -
August 21, 2015
Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa
By: Nora Lustig -
June 10, 2015
Manufacturing or Services? An Indian Illustration of a Development Dilemma
By: Amrit Amirapu, Arvind Subramanian -
June 01, 2015
How the New International Goal for Child Mortality Is Unfair to Africa (Again)
By: Simon Lange, Stephan Klasen -
June 01, 2015
The Health Consequences of Aerial Spraying of Illicit Crops: The Case of Colombia
By: Adriana Camacho, Daniel Mejia -
May 21, 2015
Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger
By: Christopher Ksoll, Jenny C. Aker -
May 21, 2015
Can a Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor?
By: Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig -
May 19, 2015
The Financial Secrecy Index: Shedding New Light on the Geography of Secrecy
By: Markus Meinzer, Petr Janský, Alex Cobham -
May 15, 2015
Guarantees, Subsidies, or Paying for Success? Choosing the Right Instrument to Catalyze Private Investment in Developing Countries
By: Owen Barder, Theodore Talbot -
May 11, 2015
New Estimates of Global Poverty and Inequality: How Much Difference Do Price Data Really Make?
By: Peter Edward, Andy Sumner -
May 05, 2015
Guarantees, Subsidies, or Paying for Success? Choosing the Right Instruments to Catalyze Private Investment in Developing Countries
By: Owen Barder -
April 05, 2015
The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies to Expand Treatment to HIV-Positive South Africans: Scale Economies and Outreach Costs
By: Mead Over, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Daniel J. Klein, Anna Bershteyn -
April 05, 2015
Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?
By: -
April 05, 2015
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
By: -
April 05, 2015
The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies to Expand Treatment to HIV-Positive South Africans: Scale Economies and Outreach Costs
By: Mead Over, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Daniel J. Klein, Anna Bershteyn -
April 05, 2015
The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints
By: -
March 05, 2015
Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala
By: Nora Lustig, Maynor Cabrera, Hilcías E. Morán -
March 05, 2015
Multiple Inequalities and Policies to Mitigate Inequality Traps in Pakistan
By: -
March 05, 2015
Trade, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States
By: Raymond Robertson, Davide Gandolfi, Timothy Halliday -
February 05, 2015
The Impact of Gavi on Vaccination Rates: Regression Discontinuity Evidence
By: Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny, Justin Sandefur, Sarah Dykstra -
February 05, 2015
Refocusing Gavi for Greater Impact
By: Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny, Justin Sandefur, Sarah Dykstra -
February 05, 2015
Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths
By: Willa Friedman -
February 05, 2015
The Face of African Infrastructure: Service Availability and Citizens' Demands
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Benjamin Leo, Robert Morello -
January 05, 2015
Commitment to Development Index 2014
By: Owen Barder, Petra Krylová -
December 05, 2014
Two Global Challenges, One Solution: International Cooperation to Combat Climate Change and Tropical Deforestation
By: Antonio G.M. La Viña, Alaya de Leon -
December 05, 2014
Climate Policy Constraints and NGO Entrepreneurship: The Story of Norway's Leadership in REDD+ Financing
By: Erlend A. T. Hermansen, Sjur Kasa -
December 05, 2014
To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
By: Dean Karlan, Greg Fischer, Margaret McConnell, Pia Raffler -
December 05, 2014
Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production: Accounting Versus Economic Cost of Primary Schooling in India
By: Lant Pritchett, Yamini Aiyar -
December 05, 2014
Measurement and Monitoring for REDD+: The Needs, Current Technological Capabilities and Future Potential
By: Jonah Busch, Scott J. Goetz, Matthew Hansen, Richard A. Houghton, Wayne Walker, Nadine Laporte -
November 05, 2014
Publishing Government Contracts: Addressing Concerns and Easing Implementation (Brief)
By: Charles Kenny -
November 05, 2014
The California REDD+ Experience: The Ongoing Political History of California's Initiative to Include Jurisdictional REDD+ Offsets within Its Cap-and-Trade System
By: Jesse Lueders, Cara Horowitz, Ann Carlson, Sean B. Hecht, Edward A. Parson -
November 05, 2014
To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
By: Dean Karlan, Pia Raffler, Greg Fischer, Margaret McConnell -
November 05, 2014
Why Maintaining Tropical Forests Is Essential and Urgent for a Stable Climate
By: Rosa C. Goodman, Martin Herold -
October 05, 2014
The Value of Forest Ecosystem Services to Developing Economies
By: Katrina Mullan -
October 05, 2014
Ecosystem Services from Tropical Forests: Review of Current Science
By: Katrina Brandon -
October 05, 2014
Who Pollutes? A Household-Level Database of America's Greenhouse Gas Footprint
By: Kevin Ummel -
October 05, 2014
How Much Will Health Coverage Cost? Future Health Spending Scenarios in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
By: Amanda Glassman, Juan Ignacio Zoloa -
October 05, 2014
Costing a Data Revolution
By: Gabriel Demombynes, Justin Sandefur -
October 05, 2014
Trading Forests: Quantifying the Contribution of Global Commodity Markets to Emissions from Tropical Deforestation
By: Martin Persson, Sabine Henders, Thomas Kastner -
September 05, 2014
Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
By: Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry, Lori Beaman -
September 05, 2014
Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat
By: Paul Novosad, Eric Werker -
September 05, 2014
The State of REDD+ Finance
By: Marigold Norman, Smita Nakhooda -
August 05, 2014
The Brazil-Norway Agreement with Performance-Based Payments for Forest Conservation: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons
By: Nancy Birdsall, Frances Seymour, William Savedoff -
August 05, 2014
How Has the Developing World Changed since the Late 1990s? A Dynamic and Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries
By: Andy Sumner, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez -
July 05, 2014
How Should Donors Respond to Resource Windfalls in Poor Countries?
By: Alan Gelb, Anton Dobronogov, Fernando Brant Saldanha -
July 05, 2014
The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey Administrative Statistics
By: Amanda Glassman, Justin Sandefur -
July 05, 2014
Delivering on a Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Amanda Glassman, Alex Ezeh -
July 05, 2014
The Quality of Official Development Assistance 2014
By: Nancy Birdsall, Homi Kharas, Nabil Hashmi -
May 05, 2014
Stopping Deforestation: What Works and What Doesn't
By: Jonah Busch, Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon -
May 05, 2014
Understanding Latin America's Financial Inclusion Gap
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Maria Alejandra Amado -
May 05, 2014
Time for FAO to Shift to a Higher Gear
By: Vijaya Ramachandran -
May 05, 2014
A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration
By: Michael Clemens -
April 05, 2014
What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies
By: Jonah Busch, Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon -
March 05, 2014
Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States
By: Nora Lustig, Timothy Smeeding, Sean Higgins, Whitney Ruble -
March 05, 2014
Does Development Reduce Migration?
By: Michael Clemens -
March 05, 2014
The Health Financing Transition: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence
By: William Savedoff, Victoria Fan -
February 05, 2014
Scarcity without Leviathan: The Violent Effects of Cocaine Supply Shortages in the Mexican Drug War
By: Juan Camilo Castillo, Daniel Mejia, Pascual Restrepo -
February 05, 2014
Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa's Missing Middle
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Alan Gelb, Christian J. Meyer -
February 05, 2014
From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector
By: Oeindrila Dube, Omar Garcia-Ponce, Kevin Thom -
February 05, 2014
Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development
By: Michael Clemens, Timothy N. Ogden -
February 05, 2014
Scarcity without Leviathan: The Violent Effects of Cocaine Supply Shortages in the Mexican Drug War
By: Juan Camilo Castillo, Daniel Mejia, Pascual Restrepo -
February 05, 2014
Stunted Growth: Why Don't African Firms Create More Jobs?
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Leonardo Iacovone, Martin Schmidt -
January 05, 2014
Rethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank
By: Devesh Kapur, Arjun Raychaudhuri -
January 05, 2014
The Median Is the Message: A Good-Enough Measure of Material Well-Being and Shared Development Progress
By: Nancy Birdsall, Christian J. Meyer -
January 05, 2014
Estimating Illicit Flows of Capital via Trade Mispricing: A Forensic Analysis of Data on Switzerland
By: Alex Cobham, Petr Janský, Alex Prats -
January 05, 2014
Estimating Illicit Flows of Capital via Trade Mispricing: A Forensic Analysis of Data on Switzerland
By: Alex Cobham, Petr Janský, Alex Prats -
January 05, 2014
Results-Based Payments Reduce the Real Costs of Corruption in Foreign Aid
By: Charles Kenny, William Savedoff -
December 05, 2013
Is Anyone Listening? Does US Foreign Assistance Target People's Top Priorities?
By: Benjamin Leo -
December 05, 2013
Primary Schooling, Student Learning, and School Quality in Rural Bangladesh
By: Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury -
November 05, 2013
Commitment to Development Index 2013
By: Owen Barder, Petra Krylová -
November 05, 2013
Supplementing REDD+ with Biodiversity Payments: The Paradox of Paying for Multiple Ecosystem Services
By: Jonah Busch -
November 05, 2013
Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda
By: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman, Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan -
October 05, 2013
HIV/AIDS Intervention Packages in Five Countries: A Review of Budget Data
By: Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran, Rachel Silverman, Victoria Fan -
October 05, 2013
Making Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power a Reality
By: Kevin Ummel -
October 05, 2013
Can Results-Based Payments Reduce Corruption?
By: Charles Kenny, William Savedoff -
September 05, 2013
Is It All About the Tails? The Palma Measure of Income Inequality
By: Alex Cobham, Andy Sumner -
September 05, 2013
Social Capital and Disaster Recovery: Evidence from Sichuan Earthquake in 2008
By: Chun Wing Tse, Jianwen Wei, Yihan Wang -
September 05, 2013
The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy
By: Michael Clemens, Gabriel Demombynes -
September 05, 2013
Making Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power a Reality
By: Kevin Ummel -
September 05, 2013
The Rebirth of Education: Why Schooling in Developing Countries Is Flailing; How the Developed World Is Complicit; and What to Do Next
By: Lant Pritchett -
September 05, 2013
The Geography of Inequality: Where and by How Much Has Income Distribution Changed since 1990?
By: Andy Sumner, Peter Edward -
September 05, 2013
Planning for Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power in South Africa: Identifying Cost-Effective Deployment Strategies Using Spatiotemporal Modeling
By: Kevin Ummel -
September 05, 2013
Revisiting the Quality of Agricultural Official Development Assistance
By: Kimberly Ann Elliott, Edward Collins -
August 05, 2013
Estimating Income / Expenditure Differences across Populations: New Fun with Old Engel's Law
By: Lant Pritchett, Marla Spivack -
December 05, 2012
Europe Beyond Aid: Assessing Europe's Commitment to Development
By: David Roodman, Owen Barder, Julia Clark, Alice Lépissier, Liza Reynolds -
November 05, 2012
Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development
By: Dean Karlan, Ryan Knight, Christopher Udry -
November 05, 2012
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
By: Nora Lustig -
November 05, 2012
Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
By: Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, Christopher Udry, Isaac Osei-Akoto -
October 05, 2012
The Buoyant Billions: How "Middle Class" Are the New Middle Classes in Developing Countries? (And Why Does It Matter?)
By: Andy Sumner -
October 05, 2012
Migration and Disaster-Induced Displacement: European Policy, Practice, and Perspective
By: Michael D. Cooper -
October 05, 2012
Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
By: Nora Lustig, Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez -
October 05, 2012
Building a Biometric National ID: Lessons for Developing Countries from India's Universal ID Program
By: Alan Gelb, Julia Clark -
October 05, 2012
Commitment to Development Index 2012
By: David Roodman -
September 05, 2012
Direct Distribution of Oil Revenues in Venezuela: A Viable Alternative?
By: Pedro L. Rodríguez, José R. Morales, Francisco J. Monaldi -
September 05, 2012
Where Will the World's Poor Live? An Update on Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion
By: Andy Sumner -
August 05, 2012
Assessing the Quality of Aid for Agriculture
By: Kimberly Elliott, Edward Collins -
August 05, 2012
A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization
By: Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran, Juan Ignacio Zoloa -
August 05, 2012
The Evolution of India's UID Program: Lessons Learned and Implications for Other Developing Countries
By: Frances Zelazny -
August 05, 2012
Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India's Maoist Belt
By: Devesh Kapur, Kishore Gawande, Shanker Satyanath -
August 05, 2012
CARMA Revisited: An Updated Database of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants Worldwide
By: Kevin Ummel -
August 05, 2012
A Note on the Middle Class in Latin America
By: Nancy Birdsall -
July 05, 2012
Getting Better Value for Money in Malaria Control
By: Amanda Glassman, Paul Wilson -
July 05, 2012
Energy+ Country Performance Ratings, 2001–2010
By: David Wheeler -
July 05, 2012
No Longer Poor: Ghana's New Income Status and Implications of Graduation from IDA
By: Todd Moss, Stephanie Majerowicz -
June 05, 2012
State Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India
By: Victoria Fan, Anup Karan, Ajay Mahal -
June 05, 2012
MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe?
By: Charles Kenny, Andy Sumner, Jonathan Karver -
June 05, 2012
Competitiveness in Central America: The Road to Sustained Growth and Poverty Reduction
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez, José Luis Guasch, Veronica Gonzales -
June 05, 2012
Priority-Setting in Health: Building Institutions for Smarter Public Spending
By: Amanda Glassman, Kalipso Chalkidou -
June 05, 2012
Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
By: Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, Matt Andrews -
May 05, 2012
Capital Requirements under Basel III in Latin America: The Cases of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Arturo J. Galindo, Marielle del Valle -
May 05, 2012
Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Julie Walz -
May 05, 2012
Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
By: Amanda Glassman, Kate McQueston, Rachel Silverman -
May 05, 2012
FCPR–Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics
By: David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, Dan Hammer -
May 05, 2012
Quantifying the Quality of Health Aid: Health QuODA
By: Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran -
April 05, 2012
The Global Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the End of the "Development" Agenda?
By: Nancy Birdsall -
April 05, 2012
The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
By: Lant Pritchett, Amanda Beatty -
April 05, 2012
Value for Money in Malaria Programming: Issues and Opportunities
By: Paul Wilson, Ya'ir Aizenman -
April 05, 2012
Incentives for Life: Cash-on-Delivery Aid for Tobacco Control in Developing Countries
By: Amanda Glassman, Thomas J. Bollyky -
April 05, 2012
Energizing Rio+20: How the United States Can Promote Sustainable Energy for All at the 2012 Earth Summit
By: Nigel Purvis, Abigail Jones -
April 05, 2012
Supporting Private Business Growth in African Fragile States: A Guiding Framework for the World Bank Group in South Sudan and Other Nations
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Benjamin Leo, Ross Thuotte -
April 05, 2012
The Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment 2009: Is Aid Quality Improving?
By: Nancy Birdsall, Homi Kharas, Rita Perakis -
April 05, 2012
How Can the World Bank Group Improve Its Private Sector Projects in African Fragile States?
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Benjamin Leo, Ross Thuotte -
March 05, 2012
How Much Does Natural Resource Extraction Really Diminish National Wealth? The Implications of Discovery
By: Alan Gelb, Kai Kaiser, Lorena Viñuela -
February 05, 2012
Credit at Times of Stress: Latin American Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Carlos Montoro -
February 05, 2012
An Index of the Quality of Official Development Assistance in Health
By: Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran -
February 05, 2012
Is There Such a Thing As Middle Class Values?
By: Florencia Torche, Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Jamele Rigolini -
January 05, 2012
What's Wrong with Dodd-Frank 1502? Conflict Minerals, Civilian Livelihoods, and the Unintended Consequences of Western Advocacy
By: Laura E. Seay -
January 05, 2012
Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance
By: David Roodman -
January 05, 2012
Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: How Funders Should Respond to Shifts in Global Poverty and Disease Burden
By: Amanda Glassman, Andy Sumner, Denizhan Duran -
January 05, 2012
Remittances and Rashomon
By: Devesh Kapur, Randall Akee -
December 05, 2011
Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011
By: David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, Dan Hammer -
December 05, 2011
From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing
By: David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, Dan Hammer -
December 05, 2011
Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies: A Proposal
By: Shantayanan Devarajan, Hélène Ehrhart, Tuan Minh Le, Gaël Raballand -
December 05, 2011
Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia
By: David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta, Dan Hammer, Brian Blankespoor -
December 05, 2011
The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country
By: Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur -
December 05, 2011
More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved?
By: Charles Kenny, Andy Sumner -
December 05, 2011
A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations
By: Arvind Subramanian, Aaditya Mattoo -
December 05, 2011
Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendation of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development
By: Charles Kenny -
December 05, 2011
Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India
By: Devesh Kapur, Milan Vaishnav -
November 05, 2011
Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistance
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Julie Walz -
November 05, 2011
Publishing Construction Contracts as a Tool for Efficiency and Good Governance
By: Charles Kenny -
November 05, 2011
Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition
By: Nancy Birdsall, Homi Kharas, Rita Perakis -
November 05, 2011
Where Is the Virtue in the Middle Class?
By: Charles Kenny -
November 05, 2011
Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment
By: Mead Over -
October 05, 2011
Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?
By: Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur -
October 05, 2011
Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: What Do Shifts in Global Poverty and the Global Disease Burden Mean for GAVI and the Global Fund?
By: Amanda Glassman, Andy Sumner, Denizhan Duran -
October 05, 2011
Safer, Faster, Cheaper: Improving Clinical Trials and Regulatory Pathways to Fight Neglected Diseases
By: Amanda Glassman, Thomas Bollyky -
October 05, 2011
Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery: U.S. Policy Options in the Case of Haiti
By: Michael Clemens, Tejaswi Velayudhan -
September 05, 2011
Dial "A" for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries
By: Jenny C. Aker -
September 05, 2011
Regional Development Banks (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
By: Jenny Ottenhoff -
September 05, 2011
International Finance Corporation (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
By: Jenny Ottenhoff -
September 05, 2011
International Monetary Fund (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
By: Jenny Ottenhoff -
September 05, 2011
The ABCs of the General Capital Increase (ABCs of IFIs Brief)
By: Todd Moss, Sarah Jane Staats, Julia Barmeier -
September 05, 2011
World Bank (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
By: Jenny Ottenhoff -
September 05, 2011
Leadership Selection at the International Financial Institutions
By: Jenny Ottenhoff -
September 05, 2011
Zap It to Me: The Short-Term Impacts of a Mobile Cash Transfer Program
By: Rachid Boumnijel, Amanda McClelland, Niall Tierney, Jenny C. Aker -
September 05, 2011
The Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Five Practical Recommendations
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Gregory Johnson, Julie Walz -
September 05, 2011
Unity in Diversity: A Global Consensus on Choosing the IMF's Managing Director: Evidence from CGD's Online Survey
By: David Wheeler -
September 05, 2011
Iraq's Last Window: Diffusing the Risks of a Petro-State
By: Johnny West -
August 05, 2011
Economics and Emigration: Trillion-dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
By: Michael Clemens -
August 05, 2011
Incentive Proliferation? Making Sense of a New Wave of Development Programs
By: William Savedoff -
August 05, 2011
Scholars Who Became Practitioners
By: Nora Lustig -
August 05, 2011
Affordable Interventions to Prevent Noncommunicable Diseases Worldwide
By: Amanda Glassman, Kate McQueston -
July 05, 2011
Oil for Uganda – or Ugandans? Can Cash Transfers Prevent the Resource Curse?
By: Alan Gelb, Stephanie Majerowicz -
July 05, 2011
Constraints to Domestic Enterprise Financing in Post-Conflict Liberia
By: John Gorlorwulu -
July 05, 2011
Fair Shares: Crediting Poor Countries for Carbon Mitigation
By: David Wheeler -
July 05, 2011
The Health Systems Funding Platform: Resolving Tensions between the Aid and Development Effectiveness Agendas
By: Amanda Glassman, William Savedoff -
June 05, 2011
GAVI's Future: Steps to Build Strategic Leadership, Financial Sustainability, and Better Partnerships
By: Amanda Glassman, Lisa Carty, J. Stephen Morrison, Margaret Reeves -
June 05, 2011
Beyond Aid: Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery
By: Michael Clemens, Kaci Farrell -
June 05, 2011
Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery: A Case Study on U.S. Policy Options for Post-Earthquake Haiti
By: Royce Bernstein Murray, Sarah Petrin Williamson -
June 05, 2011
New SME Financial Access Initiatives: Private Foundations' Path to Donor Partnerships
By: Benjamin Leo -
June 05, 2011
Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfers in Developing and Resource-Rich Countries
By: Alan Gelb, Caroline Decker -
June 05, 2011
Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories
By: Cael Warren, Raymond Robertson -
June 05, 2011
Better Factories Cambodia: An Instrument for Improving Industrial Relations in a Transnational Context
By: Raymond Robertson, Arianna Rossi -
May 05, 2011
The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge and Global Health
By: Charles Kenny, Ursula Casabonne -
May 05, 2011
Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics
By: Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, Darryl McLeod -
May 05, 2011
The Future of Development Finance
By: Nemat Shafik -
April 05, 2011
How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People\'s Donations to Fund Public Goods?
By: Dean Karlan, John A. List -
April 05, 2011
Focus UNFPA: Four Recommendations for Action
By: Katie Stein -
April 05, 2011
Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms
By: Guillermo Perry -
April 05, 2011
Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods
By: Nancy Birdsall, Benjamin Leo -
March 05, 2011
TrAid+ Channeling Development Assistance to Results
By: Alex Ergo, Ingo Puhl -
March 05, 2011
IDA at 65: Heading Toward Retirement or a Fragile Lease on Life?
By: Todd Moss, Benjamin Leo -
March 05, 2011
A Green Venture Fund to Finance Clean Technology for Developing Countries
By: David Wheeler, Darius Nassiry -
March 05, 2011
The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis
By: Francis Fukuyama, Nancy Birdsall -
March 05, 2011
Failed States, Vicious Cycles, and a Proposal
By: Raghuram G. Rajan -
March 05, 2011
The Challenge of Aid in Pakistan: Is Cash on Delivery Part of the Solution?
By: Wren Elhai -
March 05, 2011
The New Bottom Billion: What If Most of the World's Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries?
By: Andy Sumner -
February 05, 2011
West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007–2008
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Peter Timmer, Steven Block, Jenny C. Aker -
February 05, 2011
Getting Real on Trade with Pakistan: Duty-Free Market Access as Development Policy
By: Kimberly Ann Elliott -
January 05, 2011
Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Adaptation Assistance
By: David Wheeler -
January 05, 2011
Antiretroviral Therapy Awareness and Risky Sexual Behaviors: Evidence from Mozambique
By: Mead Over, Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga -
January 05, 2011
Food Crisis, Household Welfare, and HIV/AIDS Treatment: Evidence from Mozambique
By: Mead Over, Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga, Julia Vaillant -
January 05, 2011
Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers
By: Todd Moss -
January 05, 2011
Where Have All the Donors Gone? Scarce Donor Funding for Non-Communicable Diseases
By: Rachel Nugent, Andrea B. Feigl -
December 05, 2010
Learning about Schools in Development
By: Charles Kenny -
December 05, 2010
Global Prospects for Utility-Scale Solar Power: Toward Spatially Explicit Modeling of Renewable Energy Systems
By: Kevin Ummel -
December 05, 2010
Capability Traps? The Mechanisms of Persistent Implementation Failure
By: Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, Matt Andrews -
December 05, 2010
Sudan Debt Dynamics: Status Quo, Southern Secession, Debt Division, and Oil–A Financial Framework for the Future
By: Benjamin Leo -
December 05, 2010
Confronting the American Divide on Carbon Emissions Regulation
By: David Wheeler -
December 05, 2010
Not Just Aid: How Making Government Work Can Transform Africa
By: Tony Blair -
November 05, 2010
Giving Money Away? The Politics of Direct Distribution in Resource Rich States
By: Alexandra Gillies -
November 05, 2010
China in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective
By: Benedicte Vibe Christensen -
November 05, 2010
The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries
By: David Wheeler, Dan Hammer -
November 05, 2010
Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid
By: Nancy Birdsall, Ayah Mahgoub, William D. Savedoff -
October 05, 2010
How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States? A Proposal for IDA
By: Alan Gelb -
October 05, 2010
The Legacy of the Jubilee Debt Relief Movement: Agreements, Lessons, and Remaining Challenges
By: Benjamin Leo -
October 05, 2010
The Arc of the Jubilee
By: David Roodman -
October 05, 2010
Can Donors Be Flexible within Restrictive Budget Systems? Options for Innovative Financing Mechanisms
By: Benjamin Leo -
October 05, 2010
When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages
By: Michael Clemens, Gabriel Demombynes -
October 05, 2010
Austerity and the IMF
By: Kenneth Rogoff -
September 05, 2010
Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way
By: Steven Radelet -
September 05, 2010
Think Long Term: How Global AIDS Donors Can Strengthen the Health Workforce in Africa
By: Nandini Oomman, Christina Droggitis -
September 05, 2010
Aid for Trade: Supporting Trade Preference Reform
By: Susan Prowse -
August 05, 2010
Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index
By: Benjamin Lee, Julia Barmeier -
August 05, 2010
Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
By: Miriam Temin -
July 05, 2010
Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development
By: Joel E. Cohen -
July 05, 2010
Twenty Concrete Steps to Improve the United States' Commitment to Development
By: David Roodman, Cindy Prieto -
July 05, 2010
Concentrating Solar Power in China and India: A Spatial Analysis of Technical Potential and the Cost of Deployment
By: Kevin Ummel -
July 05, 2010
The End of ODA (II): The Birth of Hypercollective Action
By: Jean-Michel Severino, Olivier Ray -
June 05, 2010
Billions More for International Institutions? The ABCs of the General Capital Increases (GCI)
By: Todd Moss, Sarah Jane Staats, Julia Barmeier -
June 05, 2010
Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa
By: Jenny C. Aker, Isaac M. Mbiti -
June 05, 2010
The Race Against Drug Resistance
By: Rachel Nugent -
June 05, 2010
The Roots of Global Wage Gaps: Evidence from Randomized Processing of U.S. Visas
By: Michael Clemens -
June 05, 2010
Leveraging World Bank Resources for the Poorest: IDA Blended Financing Facility Proposal
By: Benjamin Leo -
June 05, 2010
Bridging the Gap: Better, Faster, and Cheaper Clinical Trials for Health Products for Neglected Diseases
By: Thomas Bollyky -
June 05, 2010
Inside the World Bank's Black Box Allocation System: How Well Does IDA Allocate Resources to the Neediest and Most Vulnerable Countries?
By: Benjamin Leo -
June 05, 2010
Pulling Agricultural Innovation and the Market Together
By: Kimberly Elliott -
May 05, 2010
A New and Improved African Development Bank?
By: Todd Moss -
May 05, 2010
The Washington Consensus: Assessing a Damaged Brand
By: Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, Felipe Valencia Caicedo -
May 05, 2010
The U.S. Aid "Surge" to Pakistan: Repeating a Failed Experiment? Lessons for U.S. Policymakers from the World Bank's Social-Sector Lending in the 1990s
By: Nancy Birdsall, Molly Kinder -
April 05, 2010
Financing Food Assistance: Options for the World Food Programme to Save Lives and Dollars
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Benjamin Leo, Owen McCarthy -
April 05, 2010
Ever Dollar Counts: How Global AIDS Donors Can Better Link Funding Decisions to Performance
By: David Wendt, Nandini Oomman, Christina Droggitis -
April 05, 2010
How to Pay "Cash-on-Delivery" for HIV Infections Averted: Two Measurement Approaches and Ten Payout Functions
By: Mead Over, Timothy B. Hallett -
April 05, 2010
Are Funding Decisions Based on Performance?
By: Nandini Oomman, Steven Rosenzweig, Michael Bernstein -
April 05, 2010
Open Markets for the Poorest Countries: Trade Preferences That Work
By: Kimberly Ann Elliott -
April 05, 2010
Making Trade Preferences Work for the Poorest Countries
By: Kimberly Ann Elliott -
April 05, 2010
Are Borders Barriers? The Impact of International and Internal Ethnic Borders on Agricultural Markets in West Africa
By: Jenny C. Aker, Michael W. Klein, Stephen A. O'Connell, Muzhe Yang -
April 05, 2010
Every Dollar Counts: How Global AIDS Donors Can Better Link Funding Decisions to Performance
By: David Wendt, Nandini Oomman, Christina Droggitis -
March 05, 2010
The Costs and Benefits of Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Poor Countries: Who and What Matters
By: Kimberly Elliott, Antoine Bouët, David Laborde Debucquet, Elisa Dienesch -
March 05, 2010
The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest
By: Nancy Birdsall -
March 05, 2010
Less Smoke, More Mirrors: Where India Really Stands on Solar Power and Other Renewables
By: David Wheelter, Saurabh Shome -
March 05, 2010
Technologies, Rules, and Progress: The Case for Charter Cities
By: Paul Romer -
February 05, 2010
Financial Integration and Foreign Banks in Latin America: Do They Amplify External Financial Shocks?
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Arturo J. Galindo, Alejandro Izquierdo -
January 05, 2010
Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia
By: Oeindrila Dube, Suresh Naidu -
January 05, 2010
The International Financial Crisis: Eight Lessons for and from Latin America
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
January 05, 2010
A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development
By: Michael Clemens -
January 05, 2010
From Predation to Production Post-conflict
By: Satish Chand -
January 05, 2010
The Economics of Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events in Developing Countries
By: David Wheeler, Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Brian Blankespoor -
January 05, 2010
Peace-Building without External Assistance: Lessons from Somaliland
By: Nicholas Eubank -
December 05, 2009
Aid, Dutch Disease, and Manufacturing Growth
By: Arvind Subramanian, Raghuram G. Rajan -
December 05, 2009
It\'s One Climate Policy World Out There—Almost
By: Nancy Birdsall, Jan von der Goltz -
December 05, 2009
Development Assistance, Institution Building, and Social Cohesion after Civil War: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Liberia
By: Macartan Humphreys, James Fearon, Jeremy M. Weinstein -
November 05, 2009
Will World Bank and IMF Lending Lead to HIPC IV? Debt Deja-Vu All Over Again
By: Benjamin Leo -
November 05, 2009
FORMA: Forest Monitoring for Action--Rapid Identification of Pan-tropical Deforestation Using Moderate-Resolution Remotely Sensed Data
By: David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, Dan Hammer -
November 05, 2009
Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates
By: Arvind Subramanian, Simon Johnson, William Larson, Chris Papageorgiou -
November 05, 2009
Moving Mugabe's Mountain: Zimbabwe's Path to Arrears Clearance and Debt Relief
By: Todd Moss, Benjamin Leo -
November 05, 2009
Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy
By: Arvind Subramanian, Aaditya Mattoo, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Jianwu He -
November 05, 2009
Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing-Country Industrialization?
By: Arvind Subramanian, Aaditya Mattoo, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Jianwu He -
November 05, 2009
Energy Needs and Efficiency, Not Emissions: Re-framing the Climate Change Narrative
By: Nancy Birdsall, Arvind Subramanian -
October 05, 2009
Saving Ghana from Its Oil: The Case for Direct Cash Distribution
By: Todd Moss, Lauren Young -
October 05, 2009
Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid
By: Owen Barder -
October 05, 2009
Opening Markets for Poor Countries: Are We There Yet?
By: Kimberly Ann Elliott -
September 05, 2009
Countering Drug Resistance in the Developing World: An Assessment of Incentives across the Value Chain and Recommendations for Policy Interventions
By: Prashant Yadav -
September 05, 2009
Climate Change and the Future Impacts of Storm-Surge Disasters in Developing Countries
By: David Wheeler, Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray -
September 05, 2009
Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions under Which States Delegate Governance
By: Aila M. Matanock -
September 05, 2009
Growing Pains in Latin America: An Economic Growth Framework as Applied to Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
August 05, 2009
Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development
By: Michael Clemens -
August 05, 2009
Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Antiretrovirals
By: Ethan Kapstein, Josh Busby -
August 05, 2009
Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
By: Arvind Subramanian, Aaditya Mattoo -
August 05, 2009
Climate Change Negotiating Positions of Major Developing Country Emitters
By: Jan von der Goltz -
August 05, 2009
The Illusion of Equality: The Educational Consequences of Blinding Weak States, For Example
By: Lant Pritchett, Martina Viarengo -
August 05, 2009
Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Antiretrovirals
By: Ethan B. Kapstein, Josh Busby -
August 05, 2009
Going Beyond Gender as Usual: Why and How Global HIV/AIDS Donors Can Do More for Women and Girls
By: David Wendt, Nandini Oomman, Christina Droggitis -
July 05, 2009
To Formalize or Not to Formalize? Comparisons of Microenterprise Data from Southern and East Africa
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah, Alan Gelb, Taye Mengistae -
June 05, 2009
The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence
By: David Roodman, Jonathan Morduch -
May 05, 2009
Blunt Instruments: On Establishing the Causes of Economic Growth
By: Michael Clemens, Samuel Bazzi -
May 05, 2009
Rice Price Formation in the Short Run and the Long Run
By: C. Peter Timmer -
May 05, 2009
The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific
By: John Gibson, David McKenzie -
May 05, 2009
Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls
By: Rena Eichler, Ruth Levine -
April 05, 2009
What Is Poverty Reduction?
By: Owen Barder -
April 05, 2009
Estimating Fully Observed Recursive Mixed-Process Models with cmp
By: David Roodman -
April 05, 2009
Heckle and Chide: Results of a Randomized Road Safety Intervention in Kenya
By: James Habyarimana, William Jack -
March 05, 2009
Supermarkets, Modern Supply Chains, and the Changing Food Policy Agenda
By: Peter Timmer -
March 05, 2009
Rice Crisis Forensics: How Asian Governments Carelessly Set the World Rice Market on Fire
By: Tom Slayton -
March 05, 2009
Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
By: Nora Lustig -
March 05, 2009
Schooling Inequality, Crises, and Financial Liberalization in Latin America
By: Nancy Birdsall, Gunilla Pettersson, Jere R. Behrman -
March 05, 2009
Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
By: Christopher Blattman, Edward Miguel -
March 05, 2009
The End of ODA: Death and Rebirth of a Global Public Policy
By: Jean-Michel Severino, Olivier Ray -
March 05, 2009
Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah, Alan Gelb -
February 05, 2009
AIDS Treatment in South Asia: Equity and Efficiency Arguments for Shouldering the Fiscal Burden When Prevalence Rates Are Low
By: Mead Over -
February 05, 2009
A Fresh Look at Global Governance: Exploring Objective Criteria for Representation
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Enrique Rueda-Sabater, Robin Kraft -
January 05, 2009
Pricing and Access: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations in Education and Health
By: Michael Kremer, Alaka Holla -
January 05, 2009
Do Regulatory Reforms Stimulate Investment and Growth? Evidence from the Doing Business Data
By: Benjamin P. Eifert -
December 05, 2008
Desert Power: The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East
By: David Wheeler, Kevin Ummel -
December 05, 2008
Rainfall Shocks, Markets, and Food Crises: Evidence from the Sahel
By: Jenny C. Aker -
November 05, 2008
Thought for Food: The Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices
By: Nora Lustig -
October 05, 2008
Multilateralism Beyond Doha
By: Arvind Subramanian, Aaditya Mattoo -
October 05, 2008
Does Digital Divide or Provide? The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Niger
By: Jenny C. Aker -
September 05, 2008
Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment
By: Satish Chand, Michael Clemens -
August 05, 2008
Biofuels and the Food Price Crisis: A Survey of the Issues
By: Kimberly Elliott -
July 05, 2008
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border - Working Paper 148
By: Michael Clemens, Lant Pritchett, Claudio E. Montenegro -
July 05, 2008
Why Warner-Lieberman Failed and How to Get America's Working Families behind the Next Cap-and-Trade Bill
By: David Wheeler -
May 05, 2008
Prevention Failure: The Ballooning Entitlement Burden of U.S. Global AIDS Treatment Spending and What to Do About It - Working Paper 144
By: Mead Over -
March 05, 2008
Income Per Natural: Measuring Development for People rather than Places - Working Paper 143
By: Michael Clemens, Lant Pritchett -
February 05, 2008
Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries
By: Megan Crowley, Devesh Kapur -
February 05, 2008
Crossroads at Mmamabula: Will the World Bank Choose the Clean Energy Path?
By: David Wheeler -
February 05, 2008
How Soon Can Donors Exit From Post-Conflict States?
By: Satish Chand, Ruth Coffman -
January 05, 2008
Through the Looking-Glass, and What OLS Found There: On Growth, Foreign Aid, and Reverse Causality
By: David Roodman -
December 05, 2007
Putting the Power of Transparency in Context: Information's Role in Reducing Corruption in Uganda's Education Sector
By: Paul Hubbard -
November 05, 2007
The Pentagon and Global Development: Making Sense of the DoD's Expanding Role
By: Stewart Patrick, Kaysie Brown -
November 05, 2007
Moving Toward A Consensus on Climate Policy: The Essential Role of Global Public Disclosure
By: David Wheeler -
November 05, 2007
Reviving Economic Growth in Liberia
By: Steve Radelet -
October 05, 2007
Does Influence-Peddling Impact Industrial Competition? Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Africa
By: Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah, Gaiv Tata -
October 05, 2007
How Do the BRICs Stack Up? Adding Brazil, Russia, India, and China to the Environment Component of the Commitment to Development Index
By: David Roodman -
October 05, 2007
Generation of Political Priority for Global Health Initiatives: A Framework and Case Study of Maternal Mortality
By: Jeremy Shiffman, Stephanie Smith -
October 05, 2007
Reflections on the Macro Foundations of the Middle Class in the Developing World
By: Nancy Birdsall -
September 05, 2007
Aiding Transparency: What We Can Learn About China Exim Bank's Concessional Loans
By: Paul Hubbard -
August 05, 2007
A Short Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments
By: David Roodman -
June 05, 2007
It's One World Out There: The Global Consensus on Selecting the World Bank's Next President
By: David Wheeler -
June 05, 2007
The Provision of Banking Services in Latin America: Obstacles and Recommendations
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
June 05, 2007
The Provision of Banking Services in Latin America: Obstacles and Recommendations
By: Liliana Rojas-Suarez -
May 05, 2007
Generating Political Priority for Public Health Causes in Developing Countries: Implications From a Study on Maternal Mortality
By: Jeremy Shiffman -
April 05, 2007
Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development
By: Nancy Birdsall -
April 05, 2007
Performance-based Incentives for Health: Demand- and Supply-Side Incentives in the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social - Working Paper 119
By: Ferdinando Regalía, Leslie Castro -
April 05, 2007
Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean - Working Paper 120
By: Amanda Glassman, Jessica Todd, Marie Gaarder -
April 05, 2007
Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Six Years of Results from Supply-Side Programs in Haiti - Working Paper 121
By: Rena Eichler, Paul Auxila, Uder Antoine, Bernateau Desmangles -
April 05, 2007
Performance-Based Incentives for Health: A Way to Improve Tuberculosis Detection and Treatment Completion?
By: Rena Eichler, Diana Weil, Alexandra Beith -
April 05, 2007
Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in School and What to do About It
By: Marlaine Lockheed, Maureen Lewis -
April 05, 2007
Liberia's External Debt: Moving Towards Comprehensive Debt Relief
By: Steven Radelet -
April 05, 2007
What Have IMF Programs With Low-Income Countries Assumed About Aid Flows?
By: David Goldsbrough, Ben Elberger -
April 05, 2007
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