Publications

The authors of this brief argue that health decisions taken by practitioners often result from ad hoc, nontransparent processes driven more by inertia and interest groups than by science, ethics, and ...chevron_right

The Millennium Development Goals will be either met or missed by 2015. But what comes next?chevron_right

Economic growth and improved living standards require access to reliable, affordable, convenient, and safe cooking fuels and electricity. The paper argues that the two goals of ending energy poverty a...chevron_right

This essay discusses the launch of the first trial of a "charter city" in Honduras. The charter city concept is the brainchild of renowned economist and activist, Paul Romner. His controversial propos...chevron_right

This paper aggregates quantitative evidence on the socioeconomic consequences of - and methods to reduce - teenage pregnancy in the developing world. The review finds variable results for all indicato...chevron_right

This paper examines where four Latin American countries stand with respect to capital requirements of Basel III. It looks at Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru compares actual holdings of banks' regu...chevron_right

This paper introduces and illustrates fCPR (Forest Conservation Performance Rating), a system of color-coded ratings for tropical forest conservation performance that can be implemented for local area...chevron_right

This report offers an approach to determine how the US can make the most efficient and effective use of scarce resources, reform its foreign affairs institutions and defend national interests amid bud...chevron_right

This brief summarizes and updates results of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) index applied to health aid and compares these results to the overall QuODA assessment. Through qua...chevron_right

The authors develop a simple theory which formally describes how charities can resolve the information asymmetry problems faced by small donors by working with large donors to generate quality signals...chevron_right

Although there have been studies of the cost-effectiveness of particular malaria interventions, there has been less analysis of broader aspects of value for money in malaria programming. In this paper...chevron_right

Learning profiles that track changes in student skills per year of schooling often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, this paper shows t...chevron_right

This report examines how the US can meaningfully contribute to global efforts to expand clean energy access and eradicate energy poverty in ways that are consistent with global climate protection goal...chevron_right

The paper considers the process of discovery for subsoil resources, including both hard minerals and hydrocarbons and estimates its magnitude in recent years, as derived from the sum of extraction and...chevron_right

This paper identifies the factors at country and bank levels that contributed to the behavior of real credit growth in Latin America during the 2010-2011 global financial crisis. The resilience of rea...chevron_right