Publications

This report by the Center for Global Development outlines its recommendations for the improvement of health care systems in developing countries. A range of health care system models are discussed in ...chevron_right

This paper proposes policies that would expand financial access to low-income individuals, primarily in developing countries. It argues that at a time of increased focus on financial-sector policy and...chevron_right

This paper examines the relative success story of Ghana in the context of expected oil revenues beginning in 2011-13 and the so-called oil curse. The authors examine the destabilizing power of oil wea...chevron_right

This report focuses on the political economy of aid. The author argues that the aid system is in a political equilibrium, determined by deep characteristics of the aid relationship and the political ...chevron_right

This publication presents an analysis of drugs and diagnostics, focusing on ways in which incentives in the supply chain relationships protect - or fail to protect - drug efficacy. It examines incenti...chevron_right

This publication explores the implications for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities of larger cyclonic storm surges and growing populations. The authors combine t...chevron_right

This note offers a preliminary analysis of country scores on the FY10 control of corruption indicator. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) seeks to engage with countries that rule justly, inves...chevron_right

This paper examines the option of enacting delegation agreements whereby weak or failing states relinquish their authority over governance functions to an external actor. Through case studies the auth...chevron_right

This brief examines the Latin American economies before and after the 2008 global financial crisis. It asserts that even before 2008, during five consecutive years of economic growth, Latin America's ...chevron_right

This paper documents the export of skills, embodied in goods, services or capital from poorer to richer countries. The authors first present a set of stylized facts. Using a measure which combines the...chevron_right

This publication discusses the negotiating positions major developing countries with large greenhouse gas emissions are taking on core issues. Among the most vital unsettled questions are burden shari...chevron_right

This paper describes the major institutional weaknesses in global nutrition. The authors also present two recommendations to address the joint problems of incoherence, lack of institutional leaders an...chevron_right

This paper examines whether the brain drain of doctors, engineers and other skilled workers from developing countries threatens development in these countries. The author argues that much existing evi...chevron_right

This paper addresses the question whether government control of school systems facilitates equality in school quality. The authors look at the difference between centralized and localized control of s...chevron_right

This paper examines the role of policy entrepreneurs and global activists in shaping the international market for antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to combat HIV/AIDS. The authors explain the transformation ...chevron_right