Publications

This paper explores trends in and motivations for aid, and the impacts and debates about reforming aid. The paper also examines the empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and growth, which...chevron_right

This paper shows that proliferation of aid projects may overburden recipient governments with reporting requirements, donor visits and siphoning off scarce domestic recipient resources from directly p...chevron_right

This paper illustrates that the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) is the latest phase of debt reduction for poor countries from the World Bank, the IMF and the African Development Bank. Howev...chevron_right

This publication addresses the issue of corruption in health care delivery in developing countries and outlines paths to confront the problem. The paper asks whether investments in health care reach t...chevron_right

This publication argues that the development community has failed to learn from its past and to conduct good impact evaluations. Thus the author suggests the establishment of an international council ...chevron_right

This paper by the Center for Global Development’s Evaluation Gap Working Group addresses the problem of a lack of research into the effects of aid- and development programs in developing countries. Th...chevron_right

This publication assesses five innovative policy measures to increase basic immunization coverage to introduce underused vaccines and develop new vaccines. The policies analyzed include performance-ba...chevron_right

This publication argues that the World Bank as well as the International Monetary Fund are in decline for four reasons. The first is that the institutions' income is diminishing. The second problem is...chevron_right

This publication evaluates the impact of the World Bank’s anti-corruption programs implemented by Paul Wolfowitz.chevron_right

World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz has set out his plans for fighting corruption in the developing world: support governments' efforts to reform public management and strengthen the rule of law; desi...chevron_right

This paper examines the economic policies of young democracies and analyzes if these are necessarily the same as the policies required for tackling difficult issues of economic stabilization and refor...chevron_right

This paper focuses on the impact of the US external deficit and a possible economic "hard landing" of the US and world economies will have on the developing countries. The author finds that these coun...chevron_right

This paper illustrates that in the last 25 years many thousands of formerly state-owned firms have been privatized in developing and transition countries. However, contrarily to public opinion, privat...chevron_right

This paper contains advice on how to build and run an effective policy index. The author describes the development of the Commitment to Development Index and draws lessons for others devising indexes....chevron_right

This paper illustrates that too many African state-owned enterprises, particularly those in infrastructure sectors, have a long history of poor performance. The author claims that Africa’s private par...chevron_right