Publications

This paper examines performance-based incentives in tuberculosis (TB) control programs, which include financial and material incentives directed to patients, individual health workers (in the public a...chevron_right

This paper reviews the existing research on the cost-effective prevention and treatment of diarrheal diseases and identifies research priorities in this area aimed at finding ways to reduce the diarrh...chevron_right

This paper examines the nature of aid projections in IMF programs with low-income countries. The authors conclude that much greater clarity is needed about the role of the IMF in the aid architecture....chevron_right

This paper examines a performance-based health service project launched by USAID in Haiti. The authors conclude that remarkable improvements in key health indicators have been achieved with the introd...chevron_right

The second working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is charged with estimating the impact of global warming on specific regions of the world. Their final report, released ...chevron_right

The brief explains that the US Congress balances the Fiscal Year 2008 federal budget by cutting the modest expenditures dedicated to development assistance and foreign aid programs. The authors underl...chevron_right

This essay examines the US administration's foreign assistance priorities as they are reflected in the 2008 national budget. It shows that the US continues to devote a relatively small share of its na...chevron_right

This brief provides an analytical framework for understanding disbursement policies and practices for HIV/AIDS programs of the Global Fund, PEPFAR and the World Bank’s Multi-Country AIDS Program and o...chevron_right

This brief supports the argument that labor standards can contribute to a better distribution of the gains from globalization. The author explains that on a domestic level, US policymakers should cons...chevron_right

This brief shows that remarkable increases in primary schooling have brought gender equity to the education systems of many poor countries. But the authors emphasize that nearly three-quarters of the ...chevron_right

This paper assesses conditional cash transfers' (CCTs) effectiveness in increasing the health of the poor in Latin America. The authors argue that impact evaluations provide evidence that financial in...chevron_right

This paper assesses whether pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy and whether they are realized in farming, rural non-farm enterpri...chevron_right

This study uses a database of health worker emigration from Africa to test whether exogenous decreases in emigration raise the number of domestic health professionals, increase the mass availability o...chevron_right

This publication challenges the assumption that Africa is trapped by its poverty and that aid is necessary if Africa is to escape the trap. The author suggests an alternative assumption: that Africa i...chevron_right

This brief outlines that increasing the cross-border movement of unskilled workers holds potentially huge gains for the developing and developed world. Despite irresistible forces creating pressure fo...chevron_right