Publications

This paper examines how individual countries are faring towards achieving the highly ambitious Millenium Development Goals and outlines a new MDG Progress Index, which compares country performance aga...chevron_right

This paper focuses on the role that bilateral investment treaties (BITs) can play in promoting development in sub-Saharan Africa. BITs defend and promote investment abroad by providing core protection...chevron_right

Improving adolescent girls’ health and well-being is critical to achieving virtually all international development goals, from reducing infant and child deaths to stimulating economic growth and encou...chevron_right

This essay reviews important demographic trends expected to occur between 2010 and 2050, indicates some of their implications for economic and global development, and suggests some possible policies t...chevron_right

One of the little understood, but most powerful and disruptive tensions in established aid agencies lies in the clash between the compliance side of aid programs—the counter-bureaucracy—and the techni...chevron_right

Coal power generation in China and India is expected to double and triple, respectively, over the next 20 years, increasing exposure to fuel price volatility, exacerbating local air pollution, and has...chevron_right

The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 22 rich countries on their dedication to policies that benefit poor nations. Looking beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid flows, the CDI measures ...chevron_right

We are rapidly losing our ability to cure an alarming number of the most serious and common diseases of the developing world because of an invisible adversary: drug resistance. Resistance is inevitabl...chevron_right

The authors examine the growth of mobile phone technology over the past decade and consider its potential impacts upon quality of life in low-income countries, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan A...chevron_right

This study uses a unique natural experiment to test a simple model of international differences in workers’ wages and productivity. Large differences in wages across countries could arise from several...chevron_right

The international donor community has succeeded in supporting a vast expansion of access to subsidized AIDS treatment. The AIDS treatment entitlement engenders dependency among its beneficiaries and r...chevron_right

The international financial institutions dramatically increased their lending in 2008–09 to help developing countries cope with the global financial crisis and support economic recovery. Today, these ...chevron_right

Feeding an additional three billion people over the next four decades, along with providing food security for another one billion people that are currently hungry or malnourished, is a huge challenge....chevron_right

In this paper, Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray continue their re-evaluation of overseas development assistance. Here they argue that old architectures for global collaboration are not sufficient ...chevron_right

There has been tremendous progress over the last decade in the development of health products for neglected diseases. However, the research and regulatory capacity in many neglected disease-endemic s...chevron_right