Publications

This report looks at the potential of Development Impact Bonds (DIBs). It first explains the concept of Development Impact Bonds (DIBs), the development challenges that this approach addresses, its va...chevron_right

This paper examines the nature of behavioral economics (BE). The authors attempt to define BE by looking at how it is not defined and address three major misconceptions about BE: 1) that it is about c...chevron_right

Here’s a two-part question – How much has global income distribution changed since 1990 and what is its relationship to global and local shifts in inequality? To answer the question, Peter Edward and Andy Sumner have developed an economic growth model that places different societies into four ‘consumption layers’.chevron_right

The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is a high profile, multi-country development project that has aimed to serve as a model for ending rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The project became the sub...chevron_right

South Africa and many other countries hope to aggressively expand wind and solar power (WSP) in coming decades. The challenge lies in translating these aspirations into concrete plans. This paper pres...chevron_right

This paper uses the example of the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China, to examine the link between one form of social capital -- formal and informal networking -- and disaster recovery. It concludes th...chevron_right

This paper explores one particular measure of income inequality - the Palma - the ratio of national income shares of the top 10 percent of households to the bottom 40 percent. The authors assess the P...chevron_right

This paper explores why results-based approaches to foreign aid may be less vulnerable to corruption than traditional approaches. The paper first characterizes the key differences between traditional ...chevron_right

This brief examines the global education crisis and the role of donors and development agencies in failing to foster change in the quality of education. The author argues that nearly all developing co...chevron_right

This paper examines whether a consolidated private-sector entity should reside as a new function outside of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or be consolidated within the bank's ordinary capi...chevron_right

This brief provides an update of the Quality of Agricultural Official Development Assistance (Ag QuODA), which measures how well donors score in terms of the quality of their agricultural aid. It does...chevron_right

This note analyzes US development objectives in Pakistan in the context of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2014. It says that the withdrawal marks a critical moment for the US in terms of ...chevron_right

This paper analyzes the differences in purchasing power and consumption possibilities of a US and an Indonesian household. The authors estimate the differences in household per capita expenditure usin...chevron_right

This paper identifies and defines a group of people in Latin America and other developing countries who are not poor and yet do not belong to the middle class. The authors define them as vulnerable 's...chevron_right

This paper argues that the post-2015 development framework should include Millennium Development Ideals which put the high aspirations citizens of the world’s countries have for their well-being into ...chevron_right