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The Center for Global Development (CGD) performs research and analysis on how the policies and actions of the rich and powerful affect the poor, particularly in the developing world. Some of the subjects CGD specifically addresses include globalization, aid effectiveness, climate change, education and health issues, migration and trade.
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Content from this organization
Publications
Reform of the International Monetary FundManufacturing or Services? An Indian Illustration of a Development Dilemma
How the New International Goal for Child Mortality is Unfair to Africa (Again)
Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger
Can a Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor?
MDGs to SDGs: Have we Lost the Plot
The Health Consequences of Aerial Spraying of Illicit Crops: The Case of Colombia
The Financial Secrecy Index: Shedding New Light on the Geography of Secrecy
New Estimates of Global Poverty and Inequality: How Much Difference Do Price Data Really Make?
Guarantees, Subsidies, or Paying for Success?
The ADB's Bold Move and What it Can Mean for the MDBs
Corporate Commitments to Deforestation-free Supply Chains: An Expedition
The World Bank: Why it is Still Needed and Why it Still Disappoints
Does the Rise of the Middle Class Lock in Good Government in the Developing World?
The Aid Ring Fence: Protection or Prison?
The World Bank at 75
Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything?
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?
Trade, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States
Emerging Market Macroeconomic Resilience to External Shocks: Today versus Pre–Global Crisis
Can Rich Countries Be Reliable Partners for National Development?
Zimbabwe: From Hemorrhage to Stability, A Personal Journey
Commitment to Development Index 2014
In Defence of Britain’s Overseas Aid
How China and the United States Can Come to Terms on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Biofuel Policies: Fuel versus Food, Forests, and Climate
The Future of Aid: Building Knowledge Collectively
Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production
Publishing Government Contracts: Addressing Concerns and Easing Implementation (Brief)
To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Two Global Challenges, One Solution
Latin America: The Day After is This Time Different?
The $138.5 Billion Question: When Does Foreign Aid Work (and When Doesn’t It)?
US Support for REDD+: Reflections on the Past and Future Outlook
Technology in the Service of Development: The NADRA Story
Publishing Government Contracts
Why Maintaining Tropical Forests Is Essential and Urgent for a Stable Climate
Trading Forests: Quantifying the Contribution of Global Commodity Markets to Emissions from Tropical Deforestation
The Sudden Rise of Carbon Taxes, 2010–2030
How Much Will Health Coverage Cost? Future Health Spending Scenarios in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
Costing a Data Revolution
Who Pollutes? A Household-Level Database of America’s Greenhouse Gas Footprint
Ecosystem Services from Tropical Forests: Review of Current Science
The State of REDD+ Finance
The Value of Forest Ecosystem Services to Developing Economies
Self-Selection into Credit Markets
Should Countries be More Like Shopping Malls?
Regional and Sub-National Compact Considerations for the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Birth Registration, Legal Identity, and the Post-2015 Agenda
Who Runs the International System?
Deliberative Polling as a Catalyst for Action on Climate Change
How Has the Developing World Changed since the Late 1990s?
The Brazil-Norway Agreement with Performance-Based Payments for Forest Conservation
India’s Trade, Investment, and Industrial Policies
Advancing the US–Africa Trade and Development Agenda
International Impacts of the Federal Reserve’s Quantitative Easing Program
US Policy and Tradeoffs in Promoting International Access to Energy
AGOA’s Final Frontier
The Quality of Official Development Assistance 2014
The Anatomy of Program-for-Results
Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey & Administrative Statistics
How Should Donors Respond to Resource Windfalls in Poor Countries?
Citizen Voice in a Globalized World
Delivering on a Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Peer Review of Social Science Research in Global Health
Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College
Straightening the Measuring Stick: A 14-Point Plan for Reforming the Definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA)
The WHO Global Code of Practice: A Useful Guide for Recruiting Health Care Professionals?
The Pacific Alliance: A Way Forward for Latin American Integration
Stopping Deforestation: What Works and What Doesn't
Time for FAO to Shift to a Higher Gear
The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania
Learning without Teachers? A Randomized Experiment of a Mobile Phone-Based Adult Education Program in Los Angeles
Understanding Latin America's Financial Inclusion Gap
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-term Development Finance
Money to the People: Estimates of the Potential Scale of Direct Dividend Payments in Africa
On the Distributed Costs of Drug-Related Homicides
Why Don’t Remittances Appear to Affect Growth?
Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances
Towards Strong and Stable Capital Markets in Emerging Market Economies
We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank’s Web Site
A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration
Getting Serious about Underperformance of the African Growth and Opportunity Act
The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank: Fit for 21st Century Purpose?
Regional Public Goods in Finance, Trade, and Infrastructure: An Agenda for Latin America
Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in a Mobile World
Balancing Energy Access and Environmental Goals in Development Finance: The Case of the OPIC Carbon Cap
Armageddon or Adolescence? Making Sense of Microfinance’s Recent Travails
What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It?
Assessing Performance-Based Payments for Forest Conservation
The Health Financing Transition: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence
Does Development Reduce Migration?
Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States
Scarcity without Leviathan: The Violent Effects of Cocaine Supply Shortages in the Mexican Drug War
Skilled Migration from Mexico: Trends, Concerns, and Outlook
Building a Think-and-Do Tank: A Dozen Lessons from the First Dozen Years of the Center for Global Development
Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance
From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector
Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa’s Missing Middle
Rethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank
Stunted Growth: Why Don’t African Firms Create More Jobs?
An Introduction to Cash on Delivery Aid for Funders
Maximizing Access to Energy
The Median Is the Message
Estimating Illicit Flows of Capital via Trade Mispricing
Primary Schooling, Student Learning, and School Quality in Rural Bangladesh
Shaking Up the Donor Shakedown at the World Bank
Clear Direction for a New Decade: Priorities for PEPFAR and the Next US Global AIDS Coordinator
Results-Based Payments Reduce the Real Costs of Corruption in Foreign Aid
Is Anyone Listening? Does US Foreign Assistance Target People’s Top Priorities?
Supplementing REDD+ with Biodiversity Payments
Can Results-Based Payments Reduce Corruption?
Savings by and for the Poor
Time for FAO to Shift to a Higher Gear
Verging on Merging at the Inter-American Development Bank
Here’s the Best Thing the United States Has Done in Afghanistan
The Nature of the BEast: What Behavioral Economics is Not
Investing in Social Outcomes: Development Impact Bonds
The Rebirth of Education
Making Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power a Reality
How Feedback Loops Can Improve Aid (and Maybe Governance)
OPIC Unleashed: Strengthening US Tools to Promote Private-Sector Development Overseas
More Health for the Money
Social Capital and Disaster Recovery: Evidence from Sichuan Earthquake in 2008
Is it all About the Tails? The Palma Measure of Income Inequality
Planning for Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power in South Africa
The Geography of Inequality
The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy
A UN Declaration on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Estimating Income/Expenditure Differences Across Populations
US Development Assistance to Pakistan: 2014 and Beyond
Revisiting the Quality of Agricultural Official Development Assistance
Promoting Millennium Development Ideals
The Strugglers
Context Matters for Size
When Is Prevention More Profitable than Cure? The Impact of Time-Varying Consumer Heterogeneity
First Steps Toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (Quoda-CF)
Thinking Through When the World Bank Should Fund Coal Projects
Seize the Spotlight: A Case for Gulf Cooperation Council Engagement in Research on the Effects of Labor Migration
The Early Success of India’s Health Insurance for the Poor, RSBY
Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda
Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit
The Case for Direct Transfers of Resource Revenues in Africa
Global Markets, Global Citizens, and Global Governance in the 21st Century
Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers During an Election in Mozambique
Food Aid for the 21st Century: Saving More Money, Time, and Lives
The Future of Global Poverty in a Multi-Speed World
Schooling Is Not Education!
International Harvest: A Case Study of How Foreign Workers Help American Farms Grow Crops – and the Economy
The Effect of Foreign Labor on Native Employment
Does Poor Mean Cheap? A Comparative Look at Africa’s Industrial Labor Costs
Split Decisions: Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
China’s Development Finance to Africa
A New Deal
Time-Bound Labor Access to the United States
Restoring US Leadership on Trade and Development
It‘s all About MeE
A Proposal for IDA-17
Innovating for Food Security and Smallholder Livelihoods
Scaling up What Works
Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Macroprudential Regulations in Andean Countries
Macroprudential Regulations in Central America
The Moral Imperative toward Cost-Effectiveness in Global Health
Getting to Normal with the Two Sudans
Does the “MCC Effect” Exist?
Implementing a Results-Based Approach to Strengthen IDA Support for Fragile States
The Need for More Local Procurement in Haiti
US Spending in Haiti
Forest Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) Report 2
Nowhere Left to Hide?
White House Should Explicitly Ban Intelligence Involvement in Public Health Campaigns
Which Countries Will the MCC Board Likely Select as Eligible in FY2013?
Greenprint: Three Big Changes for Countries to Take Action on Climate Change
Wanted: A Climate Agency for a Bottom-Up World
What is Governance?
Identification for Development: The Biometrics Revolution
Europe Beyond Aid: Assessing Europe’s Commitment to Development
Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development
The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru
Which Countries Will Pass the FY2013 Selection Hard Hurdles?
Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Commitment to Development Index 2012
Building a Biometric National ID
Getting Better Value for Money in Malaria Control
The Buoyant Billions: How “Middle Class” Are the New Middle Classes in Developing Countries? (And Why Does It Matter?)
Migration and Disaster-Induced Displacement: European Policy, Practice, and Perspective
Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s
Creating a Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
Global Citizens and the Global Economy
Global Government, Mixed Coalitions, and the Future of International Cooperation
Soft Lending without Poor Countries
Escaping Capability Traps Through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
Direct Distribution of Oil Revenues in Venezuela
CARMA Revisited: An Updated Database of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants Worldwide
No Longer Poor: Ghana’s New Income Status and Implications of Graduation from IDA
Energy+ Country Performance Ratings, 2001–2010
A Note on the Middle Class in Latin America
Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India’s Maoist Belt
Where Will the World’s Poor Live?
More Money, More Problems
State Health Insurance and Outof- Pocket Health Expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India
The Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment 2009
Supporting Private Business Growth in African Fragile States
The FY2013 Budget Request
Round Three of the MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely to Qualify in FY 2006?
Round Four of the MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely to be Selected for FY 2007?
Competitiveness in Central America
Priority-Setting in Health
Engagement Amid Austerity
Energizing Rio+20
Priority-Setting in Health
Quantifying the Quality of Health Aid
MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe?
Imagine There’s No Country: Three Questions About a New Charter City in Honduras
Adolescent Fertility in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
Capital Requirements under Basel III in Latin America
The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?
Value for Money in Malaria Programming
How Much Does Natural Resource Extraction Really Diminish National Wealth?
Credit at Times of Stress: Latin American Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
Innovative Financing in Early Recovery: The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund
An Index of the Quality of Official Development Assistance in Health
Is There Such a Thing As Middle Class Values?
Remittances and Rashomon
What’s Wrong with Dodd-Frank 1502?
From REDD to Green
Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies
Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing
The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country
More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved?
A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India
Cash at Your Fingertips
FCPR—Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics
New SME Financial Access Initiatives
Forest Clearing in the Pantropics
Better Factories Cambodia
The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free
Failed States, Vicious Cycles, and a Proposal
Energizing Rio+20
El Salvador Field Report
Round Two of the MCA: Which Countries are Most Likely to Qualify?
Reviving AGOA
Opportunities for Presidential Leadership on AIDS
GHI Mid-Term Review and a Way Forward
Global Health Initiative 2.0: Effective Priority-Setting in a Time of Austerity
Which Countries Pass the FY2012 Selection Hard Hurdles?
Why Is Opening the US Market to Poor Countries So Hard?
Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendations of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development
Where is the Virtue in the Middle Class?
Global Health and the New Bottom Billion
Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance
Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition
Achieving an AIDS Transition
Cash on Delivery Aid for Health
Iraq’s Last Window: Diffusing the Risks of a Petro-State
Global Health and the New Bottom Billion
Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?
Publishing Construction Contracts as a Tool for Efficiency and Good Governance
Brave New World
Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Prices
Safer, Faster, Cheaper: Improving Clinical Trials and Regulatory Pathways to Fight Neglected Diseases
Commitment to Development Index 2011
Safer, Faster, Cheaper: Improving Clinical Trials and Regulatory Pathways to Fight Neglected Diseases
Global Health and the New Bottom Billion
Dial “A” for Agriculture
Identifying a Fair Deal on Climate Change
Global Stakes: Potential Agricultural Productivity Losses from Full Exploitation of Canada’s Oil Sands
The Future of US Aid Reform: Rhetoric, Reality, and Recommendations
Leadership Selection at the International Financial Institutions
Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
Regional Development Banks
The ABCs of the General Capital Increase
International Finance Corporation
Affordable Interventions to Prevent Noncommunicable Diseases Worldwide
Unity in Diversity: A Global Consensus on Choosing the IMF's Managing Director
Zap It to Me
Incentive Proliferation? Making Sense of a New Wave of Development Programs
In Praise of Debt
MDG Progress Index 2011
The Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan
The Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Five Practical Recommendations
Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
Scholars Who Became Practitioners
Measuring Impact: Lessons from the MCC for the Broader Impact Evaluation Community
Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty
Oil for Uganda – or Ugandans?
Constraints to Domestic Enterprise Financing in Post-Conflict Liberia
Fair Shares: Crediting Poor Countries for Carbon Mitigation
Technology and USAID: Three Cheers and a Thousand Cautions
Can Aid Work? Written Testimony Submitted to the House of Lords
The Health Systems Funding Platform
Bentham from the Crypt Once More
GAVI's Future: Steps to Build Strategic Leadership, Financial Sustainability, and Better Partnerships
Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery
Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions
Beyond Aid: Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery
Beyond Bullets and Bombs
Declining Inequality in Latin America
US Trade Policy: Don’t Leave Poor Countries Behind
The Future of Development Finance
Toward Results-Based Social Policy Design and Implementation
Growing Business or Development Priority?
Focus UNFPA: Four Recommendations for Action
Growing Business or Development Priority?
Focus UNFPA Four Recommendations for Action
Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods
The Peace Corps in a Smaller World
TrAid+
The Challenge of Aid in Pakistan
The New Bottom Billion
A Green Venture Fund to Finance Clean Technology for Developing Countries
IDA at 65: Heading Toward Retirement or a Fragile Lease on Life?
Solow's Return: Inventions, Ideas and the Quality of Life
Getting Better in Pictures
Promoting Universal Transparency in Extractive Industries
West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007–2008
Getting Real on Trade with Pakistan
Getting to a "Grand Bargain" for Aid Reform
Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change
Antiretroviral Therapy Awareness and Risky Sexual Behaviors
Advanced Economies Pose Three Financial Risks to Developing Countries in 2011
Shared Goals: Measuring Overall Development Progress in Pakistan
Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse Through Cash Transfers
Learning About Schools in Development
Global Prospects for Utility-Scale Solar Power
Capability Traps?
Sudan Debt Dynamics
Not Just Aid
MCA Monitor Report from the Field: Republic of Georgia
Round Eight of the MCA
More Than Money
Confronting the American Divide on Carbon Emissions Regulation
Preventing Odious Obligations
Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid
China in Africa
Giving Money Away?
Commitment to Development Index 2010
Where Have All the Donors Gone?
The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries
The Legacy of the Jubilee Debt Relief Movement
The Arc of the Jubilee
How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States?
"Can You Hear Me Now?"
US Development Assistance to Africa and to the World
Fixing International Financial Institutions
Food Aid: Doing Well by Doing Good
After Mugabe, Zimbabwe Will Need Post-Conflict Response
Resolving Nigeria's Debt Through a Discounted Buyback
Making It Pay to Stay in School
US Pledges of Aid to Africa
Grants for the World's Poorest
Can Donors Be Flexible within Restrictive Budget Systems? Options for Innovative Financing Mechanisms
When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference?
Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment
Changing Rules of Origin to Improve Market Access for Least Developed Countries
Aid for Trade: Supporting Trade Preference Reform
People and Places: Can They Align to Bring Growth to Africa?
The 2008 Commitment to Development Index
A Doing Business Facility
Which Countries Jump the FY2010 Corruption Hurdle?
Burkina Faso Field Report
Round Six of the MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely to Be Selected for FY2009?
Supermarkets, Modern Supply Chains, and the Changing Food Policy Agenda
Rice Crisis Forensics
Coping with Rising Food Prices
Schooling Inequality, Crises, and Financial Liberalization in Latin America
ABC, 123: The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes
Think Long Term: How Global AIDS Donors Can Strengthen the Health Workforce in Africa
Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way
Stimulating Pakistani Exports and Job Creation
What’s on the Agenda in Global Health?
We Don’t Need No Education?
Beyond Short-Term Thinking
Zeroing In: AIDS Donors and Africa’s Health Workforce
Challenging Corruption in Africa
Where Are the BITs? How US Bilateral Investment Treaties with Africa Can Promote Development
How Should Oil Exporters Spend Their Rents?
Who Are the MDG Trailblazers?
Beyond Population
Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
Twenty Concrete Steps to Improve the United States' Commitment to Development
Concentrating Solar Power in China and India
The End of ODA (II)
The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development
Bridging the Gap: Improving Clinical Development and the Regulatory Pathways for Health Products for Neglected Diseases
Inside the World Bank's Black Box Allocation System
Leveraging World Bank Resources for the Poorest
The Washington Consensus: Assessing a Damaged Brand
Tailored Aid for a Tailored Age?
Pulling Agricultural Innovation and the Market Together
Billions More for International Institutions? The ABCs of the General Capital Increases (GCI)
The Race Against Drug Resistance
The Race Against Drug Resistance
The Roots of Global Wage Gaps
Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa
Sustaining and Leveraging AIDS Treatment
Using Incentives to Prevent HIV Infections
Rich Country Tariffs and Subsidies: Let’s Do the Numbers
Japan, China and Thailand Can Solve the Rice Crisis - But US Leadership Is Needed
What’s Behind the Recent Declines in US Foreign Assistance?
PEPFAR Reauthorization: Improving Transparency in U.S. Funding for HIV/AIDS
A White House Focus on Social Justice in Latin America?
A Better Way Forward on Trade and Labor Standards
Will the Poor Be Flooded Out?
Integration in the Americas: One Idea for Plan B
Africa's Investment Climate Facility
How to Unlock the $1 Trillion That Developing Countries Urgently Need to Cope with the Crisis
Saving the Doha Round Requires Further Cuts in U.S. Agricultural Support
In World Bank Corruption Fight, Independent Evaluation is Key
China ExIm Bank and Africa: New Lending, New Challenges
No Child Left Behind - Anywhere
Gold for Debt: What's New and What Next?
Freetown to Hollywood: The Kimberley Process Takes on Africa’s 'Blood Diamonds'
A Little Less Talk: Six Steps to Get Some Action from the Accra Agenda
US Aid to Africa After the Midterm Elections? A “Surprise Party” Update
Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change
Arson Alert: Philippines is Playing with Fire! Again!
A New and Improved African Development Bank?
The Global AIDS Transition
How to Pay "Cash-on-Delivery" for HIV Infections Averted
Every Dollar Counts: How Global AIDS Donors Can Better Link Funding Decisions to Performance
Financing Food Assistance
Are Borders Barriers?
Making Trade Preferences Work for the Poorest Countries
Open Markets for the Poorest Countries
Are Funding Decisions Based on Performance?
The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest
The Costs and Benefits of Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Poor Countries: Who and What Matters
The US Aid “Surge” to Pakistan: Repeating a Failed Experiment?
Technologies, Rules, and Progress: The Case for Charter Cities
Less Smoke, More Mirrors: Where India Really Stands on Solar Power and Other Renewables
Reviving the Global Education Compact: Four Options for Global Education Funding
Financial Integration and Foreign Banks in Latin America
The International Financial Crisis: Eight Lessons for and from Latin America
A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development
From Predation to Production Post-Conflict
The Economics of Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events in Developing Countries
Peace-Building Without External Assistance
Bases, Bullets, and Ballots
Aid, Dutch Disease, and Manufacturing Growth
It’s One Climate Policy World Out There— Almost
Partnerships with the Private Sector in Health
Round Seven of the MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely to Be Selected for FY2010?
Development Assistance, Institution Building, and Social Cohesion After Civil War
Will World Bank and IMF Lending Lead to HIPC IV?
FORMA: Forest Monitoring for Action
Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates
Moving Mugabe’s Mountain
Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy
Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing Country Industrialization?
Energy Needs and Efficiency, Not Emissions
Open Markets for Poor Countries
Commitment to Development Index 2009
Saving Ghana from Its Oil
Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid
Opening Markets for Poor Countries
Countering Drug Resistance in the Developing World
Climate Change and the Future Impacts of Storm-Surge Disasters in Developing Countries
Start With a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
Policy Principles for Expanding Financial Access
Growing Pains in Latin America
Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions under Which States Delegate Governance
Global Nutrition Institutions: Is There an Appetite for Change?
Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development
Making Markets for Merit Goods
The Illusion of Equality
Going Beyond Gender as Usual: Why and How Global HIV/AIDS Donors Can Do More forWomen and Girls
High Stakes in a Complex Game
Criss-Crossing Globalization
To Formalize or Not to Formalize?
Development Aid and Its Criticisms: The View from Zambia
The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh
The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest
Performance Incentives for Global Health
Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better Migration Data
Rice Price Formation in the Short Run and the Long Run
Blunt Instruments: On Establishing the Causes of Economic Growth
How the Economic Crisis is Hurting Africa
Dambisa Moyo's (Serious) Challenge to the Development Business
Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It
UNAIDS Preparing for the Future
What Is Poverty Reduction?
Heckle and Chide: Results of a Randomized Road Safety Intervention in Kenya
Estimating Fully Observed Recursive Mixed-Process Models with 'cmp'
The End of ODA: Death and Rebirth of a Global Public Policy
Report of the UNAIDS Leadership Transition Working Group
Civil War
We Don't Need No Education? Why the United States Should Take the Lead on Global Education
AIDS Treatment in South Asia
A Fresh Look at Global Governance: Exploring Objective Criteria for Representation
How to Unlock the $ 1 Trillion that Developing Countries Urgently Need to Cope with the Crisis
Toward Measuring the Impact of the World Food Program's Purchase for Progress Initiative
From Innovation to Impact: Next Steps for the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Round Six of the MCA: Which Countries Are Most Likely to Be Selected for FY2009?
The Age of Turbulence and Poor Countries: The Case for MDB Help with Risk Management
Getting the Focus Right: US Leadership in the Fight Against Global Corruption
Why Global Development Matters and What the Next US President Should Do About It
Do Regulatory Reforms Stimulate Investment and Growth?
Pricing and Access: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations in Education and Health
Rainfall Shocks, Markets, and Food Crises: Evidence from the Sahel
Desert Power: The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East
What's Behind the Recent Declines in US Foreign Assistance?
Aid for Education
Tripping Over Health: US Policy on Patents and Drug Access in Developing Countries
US Trade Policy and Global Development
More Growth with More Income Equality in the Americas
The Age of Turbulence and Poor Countries
Thought for Food
Which Countries Make the FY2009 Corruption Cut?
"Can You Hear Me Now?" How Cell Phones are Transforming Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Does Digital Divide or Provide?
Multilateralism beyond Doha
Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation
Seizing the Opportunity on AIDS and Health Systems
El Salavador Field Report
Guatemala ... Teetering on the Brink?
Don't Close the Golden Door
Healthy Foreign Policy
Global Warming: An Opportunity for Greatness
US Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century
A Little Less Talk
Power and Roads for Africa
Biofuels and the Food Price Crisis
The Structural Transformation as a Pathway out of Poverty
Why Warner-Lieberman Failed and How to Get America's Working Families behind the Next Cap-and-Trade Bill
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border
Integration in the Americas: One Idea for Plan B
The Right Response in Latin America to Oil and Food Price Pressures: Fight Inflation Now!
Integration in the Americas: One Idea for Plan B
New Day, New Way: US Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century
Measuring Progress with Tests of Learning: Pros and Cons for "Cash on Delivery Aid" in Education
Intellectual Property and Public Health: An Overview of the Debate with a Focus on US Policy
Commitment to Development Index for Africa
Don't Close the Golden Door: Our Noisy Debate on Immigration and its Deathly Silence on Development
Japan, China and Thailand Can Solve the Rice Crisis
Prevention Failure
Calculating CARMA: Global Estimation of CO2 Emissions from the Power Sector
The Numbers Behind the Stories
Power and Roads for Africa
Modernizing Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century: An Agenda for the Next US President
Income per Natural
The Good News Out of Africa
Learning While Doing
U.S. Development Assistance to Africa and to the World
Crossroads at Mmamabula: Will the World Bank Choose the Clean Energy Path?
How Soon Can Donors Exit From Post-Conflict States?
Beyond the ABCs
Incentivos Basados en el Desempeno para la Salud
Combating Corrupt Payments in Foreign Investment Concessions: Closing the Loopholes, Extending the Tools
Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda
Young Democracies in the Balance: Lessons for the International Community
From Violence to Voting
Round Five of the MCA: Which Countries are Most Likely to be Selected for FY 2008
Reviving Economic Growth in Liberia
Another Inconvenient Truth
Macro Aid Effectiveness Research
Putting the Power of Transparency in Context
Through the Looking Glass and what OLS Found There
The Impact of FY2008 Funding Options on the Millenium Challenge Account
PEPFAR Reauthorization: Improving Transparency in US Funding for HIV/AIDS
The Pentagon and Global Development
Moving Toward a Consensus on Climate Policy
Smart Samaritans: Is There a Third Way in the Development Debate?
From World Bank to World Development Cooperative
Following the Funding for HIV/AIDS
The 2007 Commitment to Developent Index
Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health
Global Warming and Agriculture
Trade Policy for Development
Commitment to Development Index 2007
Reflections on the Macro Foundations of the Middle Class in the Developing World
Generation of Political Priority for Global Health Initiatives
How do the BRICs Stack up?
How Does Influence-Peddling Impact Industrial Competition?
Aiding Transparency
"We Fall Down and Get Up": State Failure, Democracy and Development in Sierra Leone
The US Response to Precarious States
The Chinese Aid System
The World Bank: Toward a Global Club
Does the IMF Constrain Health Spending in Poor Countries?
Liberia's External Debt
Following the Money: Toward Better Tracking of Global Health Resources
The World Bank's Work in the Poorest Countries: Five Recommendations for a New IDA
Billions for War, Pennies for the Poor: Moving the President's FY2008 Budget from Hard Power to Smart Power
A Risky Business: Saving Money and Improving Global Health Through Better Demand Forecasts
Freetown to Hollywood: The Kimberley Process Takes on Africa’s ‘Blood Diamonds’
China ExIm Bank and Africa: New Lending, New Challenges
Fixing International Financial Institutions: How Africa Can Lead the Way
Africa’s Investment Climate Facility: Does it Deserve U.S. Support?
Global Trade, Jobs and Labor Standards
State Building and Global Development
Why Global Development Matters for the US
Global Trade and Development
US Assistance for Global Development
Global HIV / AIDS and the Developing World
Education and the Developing World
Learning from Development: the Case for an International Council to Catalyze Independent Impact Evaluations of Social Sector Interventions
Tackling Healthcare Corruption and Governance Woes in Developing Countries
In World Bank Corruption Fight, Independent Evaluation is Key
Vaccines for Development
The Globalizers in Search of a Future: Four Reasons why the IMF and World Bank Must Change, and four Ways They Can
How Countries Get Rich
Rich Country Tariffs and Subsidies: Let’s Do the Numbers
Looking For the Devil In the Doha Agricultural Negotiations
Achieving a Grand Bargain in the Doha Round
Food Aid: Doing Well by Doing Good
Foreign Investment and Economic Development: Evidence from Private Firms in East Africa
After Mugabe, Zimbabwe Will Need Post-Conflict Response
Are the Proposed Cuts in EU and US Agricultural Subsidies Real?
The Global Migration of Talent: What Does it Mean for Developing Countries?
What’s Wrong with the Millennium Development Goals?
The 2005 Commitment to Development Index: Components and Results
Making it Pay to Stay in School
Costs and Causes of Zimbabwe’s Crisis
US Pledges of Aid to Africa: Let’s Do the Numbers
Grants for the World’s Poorest: How the World Bank Should Distribute Its Funds
Adjusting to the MFA Phase-Out: Policy Priorities
Connecting the Poor to Economic Growth: Eight Key Questions
Making Markets for Vaccines–Ideas to Action
Gold for Debt: What’s New and What Next?
Resolving Nigeria’s Debt Through a Discounted Buyback
Big Sugar and the Political Economy of US Agricultural Policy
Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent Countries
No Child Left Behind—Anywhere
Double Standards on IDA and Debt: The Case for Reclassifying Nigeria
On the Road to Universal Primary Education
A Short Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments
The Provision of Banking Services in Latin America: Obstacles and Recommendations
It’s One World Out There: The Global Consensus on Selecting the World Bank’s Next President
Performance-Based Incentives for Health: A Way to Improve Tuberculosis Detection and Treatment Completion?
Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Six Years of Results from Supply-Side Programs in Haiti
Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Demand- and Supply-Side Incentives in the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social
Cost-Effective Prevention of Diarrheal Diseases: A Critical Review
What Have IMF Programs with Low-Income Countries Assumed about Aid Flows?
Pathways out of Poverty during an Economic Crisis: An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia
Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration
Does the IMF Constrain Health Spending in Poor Countries?
Do No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions, and the Missing Middle in Africa
A White House Focus on Social Justice in Latin America?
Why Doesn’t Africa Get More Equity Investment? Frontier Stock Markets, Firm Size and Asset Allocations of Global Emerging Market Funds
Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts? - Assessing “Whole of Government” Approaches to Fragile States
Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
Generating Political Priority for Public Health Causes in Developing Countries: Implications from a Study on Maternal Mortality
Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions To Estimate the Impacts
A Risky Business: Saving Money and Improving Global Health through Better Demand Forecasts
Lessons from Seven Countries: Reflections on the Millennium Challenge Account
Bilateral Guest Worker Agreements: A Win-Win Solution for Rich Countries and Poor People in the Developing World
Inexcusable Absence:Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren’t in School and What to Do About It
Will the Poor Be Flooded Out? The IPCC’s Predicted Flood Disasters and Their Implications for Development Aid
Will the Millennium Challenge Account Be Caught in the Crosshairs? A Critical Year for Full Funding
A Better Way Forward on Trade and Labor Standards
Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment
Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microfinance
A Trickle or a Flood: Commitments and Disbursement for HIV/AIDS from the Global Fund, PEPFAR, and the World Bank’s Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP)
Expand and Enhance: A Proposal to Strengthen the MCA Eligibility Process When Adding the Natural Resource Indicators
US Aid to Africa After the Midterm Elections? A “Surprise Party” Update
Agriculture and the Doha Round
Group Versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines
Saving the Doha Round Requires Further Cuts in US Agricultural Support
Toward a New Social Contract in Latin America
Millions Saved: Proven Successes in Global Health
Trading Up: How Much Should Poor Countries Pay to Support Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Trading Up: Labor Standards, Development, and CAFTA
AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children’s Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
The Millennium Challenge Account: Soft Power or Collateral Damage?
Why Are There So Few Black-Owned Firms in Africa?
Privatization in Latin America
Trading Up: Trade Policy and Global Poverty
Trading Up: Strengthening AGOA’s Development Potential
From Promise to Performance: How Rich Countries Can Help Poor Countries Help Themselves
Beyond TRIPS: A New Global Patent Regime
How much GO in AGOA?
Delivering on Debt Relief
How to Do xtabond2: An Introduction to “Difference” and “System” GMM in Stata
Payments for Progress: A Hands-Off Approach to Foreign Aid
An Index of Donor Performance
Microfinance as Business
Artificial States
Disentangling the Determinants of Successful Demobilization and Reintegration
Beyond the IMF
Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Against Neglected Diseases: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness
A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education
Fragile States and US Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money
New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth
Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings
A Primer on Foreign Aid
A Policymakers’ Guide to Dutch Disease
Are the Planned Increases in Aid Too Much of a Good Thing?
Once more into the Breach: Economic Growth and Global Integration
Who Is not Poor? Proposing A Higher International Standard for Poverty
The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-Country Empirics
Competitive Proliferation of Aid Projects: A Model
Will Debt Relief Make a Difference? Impact and Expectations of the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
Privatization in Latin America
Ten Myths of the International Finance Facility
Privatization - A Summary Assessment
The US External Deficit and Developing Countries
The Surprise Party: An Analysis of US ODA Flows to Africa
Economic Policy and Wage Differentials in Latin America
The Economics of Young Democracies: Policies and Performance
The Role of the IMF in Well-Performing Low-Income Countries
Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: How Much Should Poor Countries Contribute?
Back to the Future for African Infrastructure? Why State-Ownership Is No More Promising the Second Time Around
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappra
Tax Policies to Promote Private Charitable Giving in DAC Countries
Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy
New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar’s “Aid, Policies, and Growth”
The Costs and Benefits of Front-Loading and Predictability of Immunization
How Multinational Investors Evade Developed Country Laws
Privatization in Africa: What has happened? What is to be done?
Governance and Corruption in Public Health Care Systems
Does the Private Sector Care About AIDS? Evidence from Investment Climate Surveys in East Africa
Bootstraps Not Band-Aids: Poverty, Equity and Social Policy in Latin America
The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much Is Too Much, How Long Is Long Enough?
Why It Matters Who Runs the IMF and the World Bank
A Stability and Social Investment Facility for High-Debt Countries
Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity
An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
Weak States and Global Threats: Assessing Evidence of “Spillovers”
The Day After Comrade Bob: Applying Post-Conflict Recovery Lessons to Zimbabwe
After the Big Push? Fiscal and Institutional Implications of Large Aid Increases
Reforming Development Assistance: Lessons from the UK Experience
Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target
A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Reform, and Governance
Production-Weighted Estimates of Aggregate Protection in Rich Countries toward Developing Countries
From Social Policy to an Open-Economy Social Contract in Latin America
Reliving the ‘50s: the Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development
The Dollar and Development
World Bank Capital Neither Complements nor Substitutes for Private Capital
Agriculture and Pro-Poor Growth: An Asian Perspective
Do Rich Countries Invest Less in Poor Countries than the Poor Countries Themselves?
The Global War on Terror and U.S. Development Assistance: USAID Allocation by Country, 1998-2005
Private Sector Involvement in Financial Crisis Resolution: Definition, Measurement, and Implementation
Policy Selectivity Forgone: Debt and Donor Behavior in Africa
Patents, Price Controls and Access to New Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market Entry
Do as I Say not as I Do: A Critique of G-7 Proposals on Reforming the MDBs
Financial Regulations in Developing Countries: Can they Effectively Limit the Impact of Capital Account Volatility?
Addressing the Challenge of HIV/AIDS: Macroeconomic, Fiscal and Institutional Issues
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development
Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective
Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data
Primary Health Care in Practice: Is It Effective?
The Economic Implications of Epidemics Old and New
From Pushing Reforms to Pulling Reforms: The Role of Challenge Programs in Foreign Aid Policy
Behavioral Foundations of Democracy and Development
Food Security and Economic Growth: An Asian Perspective
Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings
Underfunded Regionalism in the Developing World
An Index of Industrial Country Trade Policy toward Developing Countries
Low Investment is not the Constraint on African Development
Asymmetric Globalization: Global Markets Require Good Global Politics
Food Security in Indonesia: Current Challenges and the Long-Run Outlook
Agricultural Protection in Rich Countries: How Did We Get There?
What Did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans
Beyond HIPC: Secure Sustainable Debt Relief for Poor Countries
Double-Standards, Debt Treatment, and World Bank Country Classification: The Case of Nigeria
Solutions when the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development
An Identity Crises? Testing IMF Financial Programming
Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short Term Effect of Aid on Growth
Towards a New Consensus for Addressing the Global Challenge of the Lack of Education
Financial Crises and Poverty in Emerging Market Economies
An Index of Donor Performance
Commodity Dependence, Trade, and Growth: When “Openness” is Not Enough
Is Africa’s Skepticism of Foreign Capital Justified? Evidence from East African Firm Survey Data
The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
Winners and Losers: Assessing the Distributional Impact of Privatization
Aid Effectiveness and the Millennium Development Goals
Intellectual Property and the Availability of Pharmaceuticals in Poor Countries
The Road to Pro-Poor Growth: The Indonesian Experience in Regional Perspective
The Cartel of Good Intentions: Bureaucracy Versus Markets in Foreign Aid
The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective
External Advisors & Privatization in Transition Economies
Boom Towns and Ghost Countries: Geography, Agglomeration, and Population Mobility
AIDS and the Accumulation and Utilization of Human Capital in Africa
Inequality Does Cause Underdevelopment: New Evidence from Commodity Endowments, Middle Class Share, and other Determinants of per Capita Income
The Illusion of Sustainability
Challenges and Opportunities for the new Executive Director of the Global Fund
Building Africa's Development Bank
Measuring Commitment to Health
When Will we Ever Learn? Improving Lives Through Impact Evaluation
A new Era at the Inter-American Development Bank
The Hardest Job in the World: Five Crucial Tasks for the New President of the World Bank
Reforming US Development Policy
Building and Running an Effective Policy Index
US Foreign Aid Reform
USAID’s Track Record in Family Planning
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