Center for Global Development

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• 186 Saving Ghana from Its Oil: The Case for Direct Cash Distribution
  by Todd Moss & Lauren Young [Downloadable!]
• 185 Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid
  by Owen Barder [Downloadable!]
• 184 Opening Markets for Poor Countries: Are We There Yet?
  by Kimberly Ann Elliott [Downloadable!]
• 183 Countering Drug Resistance in the Developing World: An Assessment of Incentives across the Value Chain and Recommendations for Policy Interventions
  by Prashant Yadav [Downloadable!]
• 182 Climate Change and the Future Impacts of Storm-Surge Disasters in Developing Countries
  by Susmita Dasgupta & Benoit Laplante & Siobhan Murray & David Wheeler [Downloadable!]
• 181 Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions under Which States Delegate Governance
  by Aila M. Matanock [Downloadable!]
• 180 Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development
  by Michael Clemens [Downloadable!]
• 179 Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Antiretrovirals
  by Ethan B. Kapstein & Josh Busby [Downloadable!]
• 178 The Illusion of Equality: The Educational Consequences of Blinding Weak States, For Example
  by Lant Pritchett & Martina Viarengo [Downloadable!]
• 177 High Stakes in a Complex Game: A Snapshot of the Climate Change Negotiating Positions of Major Developing Country Emitters
  by Jan von der Goltz [Downloadable!]
• 176 Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
  by Aaditya Mattoo & Arvind Subramanian [Downloadable!]
• 175 To Formalize or Not to Formalize? Comparisons of Microenterprise Data from Southern and East Africa
  by Alan Gelb & Taye Mengistae & Vijaya Ramachandran & Manju Kedia Shah [Downloadable!]
• 174 The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence
  by David Roodman & Jonathan Morduch [Downloadable!]
• 173 The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific
  by John Gibson & David McKenzie [Downloadable!]
• 172 Rice Price Formation in the Short Run and the Long Run: The Role of Market Structure in Explaining Volatility
  by Peter Timmer [Downloadable!]
• 171 Blunt Instruments: On Establishing the Causes of Economic Growth
  by Michael Clemens & Samuel Bazzi [Downloadable!]
• 170 What is Poverty Reduction?
  by Owen Barder [Downloadable!]
• 169 Heckle and Chide: Results of a Randomized Road Safety Intervention in Kenya
  by James Habyarimana & William Jack [Downloadable!]
• 168 Estimating Fully Observed Recursive Mixed-Process Models with cmp
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 167 Death and Rebirth of a Global Public Policy
  by Jean-Michel Severino & Olivier Ray [Downloadable!]
• 166 Civil War: A Review of 50 Years of Research
  by Christopher Blattman & Edward Miguel [Downloadable!]
• 165 Schooling Inequality, Crises, and Financial Liberalization in Latin America
  by Jere R. Behrman & Nancy Birdsall & Gunilla Pettersson [Downloadable!]
• 164 Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
  by Nora Lustig [Downloadable!]
• 163 Rice Crisis Forensics: How Asian Governments Carelessly Set the World Rice Market on Fire
  by Tom Slayton [Downloadable!]
• 162 Supermarkets, Modern Supply Chains, and the Changing Food Policy Agenda
  by Peter Timmer [Downloadable!]
• 161 AIDS Treatment in South Asia: Equity and Efficiency Arguments for Shouldering the Fiscal Burden When Prevalence Rates are Low
  by Mead Over [Downloadable!]
• 160 A Fresh Look at Global Governance: Exploring Objective Criteria for Representation
  by Enrique Rueda-Sabater & Vijaya Ramachandran & Robin Kraft [Downloadable!]

• 157 Rainfall Shocks, Markets, and Food Crises: Evidence from the Sahel
  by Jenny Aker [Downloadable!]
• 156 Desert Power: The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East
  by Kevin Ummel & David Wheeler [Downloadable!]
• 155 Thought for Food: The Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices
  by Nora Lustig [Downloadable!]
• 154 Does Digital Divide or Provide? The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Niger
  by Jenny Aker [Downloadable!]
• 153 Multilateralism Beyond Doha
  by Arvind Subramanian & Aaditya Mattoo [Downloadable!]
• 152 Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment
  by Michael Clemens & Satish Chand [Downloadable!]
• 151 Biofuels and the Food Price Crisis: A Survey of the Issues
  by Kimberly Elliott [Downloadable!]
• 150 The Structural Transformation as a Pathway out of Poverty: Analytics, Empirics and Politics
  by Peter Timmer & Selvin Akkus [Downloadable!]
• 149 Why Warner-Lieberman Failed and How to Get America’s Working Families behind the Next Cap-and-Trade Bill
  by David Wheeler [Downloadable!]
• 148 The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border
  by Michael Clemens & Claudio Montenegro & Lant Pritchett [Downloadable!]
• 147 Measuring Progress with Tests of Learning: Pros and Cons for "Cash on Delivery Aid" in Education
  by Marlaine Lockheed [Downloadable!]
• 146 Intellectual Property and Public Health: An Overview of the Debate with a Focus on U.S. Policy
  by Carsten Fink [Downloadable!]
• 145 Calculating CARMA: Global Estimation of CO2 Emissions from the Power Sector
  by David Wheeler & Kevin Ummel [Downloadable!]
• 144 Prevention Failure: The Ballooning Entitlement Burden of U.S. Global AIDS Treatment Spending and What to Do About It
  by Mead Over [Downloadable!]
• 143 Income per natural: Measuring development as if people mattered more than places
  by Michael Clemens & Lant Pritchett [Downloadable!]
• 142 Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New Role for the World Trade Organization
  by Arvind Subramanian & Aaditya Mattoo [Downloadable!]
• 141 How Soon Can Donors Exit From Post-Conflict States?
  by Satish Chand & Ruth Coffman [Downloadable!]
• 140 Crossroads at Mmamabula: Will the World Bank Choose the Clean Energy Path?
  by David Wheeler [Downloadable!]
• 139 Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries
  by Devesh Kapur & Megan Crowley [Downloadable!]
• 138 From Violence to Voting: War and political participation in Uganda
  by Christopher Blattman [Downloadable!]
• 137 Through the Looking-Glass, and What OLS Found There: On Growth, Foreign Aid, and Reverse Causality
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]

• 136 Putting the Power of Transparency in Context: Information’s Role in Reducing Corruption in Uganda’s Education Sector
  by Paul Hubbard [Downloadable!]
• 135 Macro Aid Effectiveness Research: A Guide for the Perplexed
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 134 Macro Aid Effectiveness Research: A Guide for the Perplexed
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 133 Reviving Economic Growth in Liberia
  by Steve Radelet [Downloadable!]
• 132 Moving Toward A Consensus on Climate Policy: The Essential Role of Global Public Disclosure
  by David Wheller [Downloadable!]
• 131 The Pentagon and Global Development: Making Sense of the DoD’s Expanding Role
  by Stewart Patrick & Kaysie Brown [Downloadable!]
• 130 Reflections on the Macro Foundations of the Middle Class in the Developing World
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 129 Generation of Political Priority for Global Health Initiatives: A Framework and Case Study of Maternal Mortality
  by Jeremy Shiffman & Stephanie Smith [Downloadable!]
• 128 How Do the BRICs Stack Up? Adding Brazil, Russia,India, and China to the Environment Component of the Commitment to Development Index
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 127 How Does Influence-Peddling Impact Industrial Competition? Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Africa
  by Vijaya Ramachandran & Manju Kedia Shah & Gaiv Tata [Downloadable!]
• 126 Aiding Transparency: What We Can Learn About China ExIm Bank’s Concessional Loans
  by Paul Hubbard [Downloadable!]
• 125 A Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 124 The Provision of Banking Services in Latin America: Obstacles and Recommendations
  by Liliana Rojas-Suarez [Downloadable!]
• 123 It's One World Out There: The Global Consensus on Selecting the World Bank's Next President
  by David Wheeler [Downloadable!]
• 122 Performance-Based Incentives for Health: A Way to Improve Tuberculosis Detection and Treatment Completion?
  by Alexandra Beith & Rena Eichler & Diana Weil [Downloadable!]
• 121 Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Six Years of Results from Supply-Side Programs in Haiti
  by Rena Eichler & Paul Auxila & Uder Antoine & Bernateau Desmangles [Downloadable!]
• 120 Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
  by Amanda Glassman & Jessica Todd [Downloadable!]
• 119 Performance-based Incentives for Health: Demand- and Supply-Side Incentives in the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social
  by Ferdinando Regalía & Leslie Castro [Downloadable!]
• 118 Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 117 Cost-Effective Prevention of Diarrheal Diseases: A Critical Review
  by Michael Kremer & Alix Peterson Zwane [Downloadable!]
• 116 What Have IMF Programs With Low-Income Countries Assumed About Aid Flows?
  by David Goldsbrough & Ben Elberger [Downloadable!]
• 115 Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis: An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia
  by Neil McCulloch & C. Peter Timmer & Julian Weisbrod [Downloadable!]
• 114 Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration
  by Michael Clemens [Downloadable!]
• 113 Do No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions, and the Missing Middle in Africa
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 112 Why Doesn't Africa Get More Equity Investment? Frontier Stock Markets, Firm Size and Asset Allocations of Global Emerging Market Funds
  by Todd Moss & Vijaya Ramachandran & Scott Standley [Downloadable!]
• 111 Group Versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines
  by Dean Karlan & Xavier Giné [Downloadable!]
• 110 Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microcredit
  by Dean Karlan & Jonathan Zinman [Downloadable!]
• 109 Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Report
  by Dean Karlan & Jonathan Zinman [Downloadable!]
• 108 Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts
  by Dean Karlan & Jonathan Zinman [Downloadable!]
• 107 Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
  by Dean Karlan & Martin Valdivia [Downloadable!]
• 106 Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
  by Dean Karlan & Nava Ashraf & Wesley Yin [Downloadable!]
• 105 AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
  by Harsha Thirumurthy & Joshua Graff Zivin & Markus Goldstein [Downloadable!]
• 104 Why Are There So Few Black-Owned Firms in Africa? Preliminary Results from Enterprise Survey Data
  by Vijaya Ramachandran & Manju Kedia Shah [Downloadable!]

• 103 How to Do xtabond2: An Introduction to "Difference" and "System" GMM in Stata
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 102 Payments for Progress: A Hands-Off Approach to Foreign Aid
  by Nancy Birdsall & Owen Barder [Downloadable!]
• 101 Microfinance as Business
  by David Roodman & Uzma Qureshi [Downloadable!]
• 100 Artificial States
  by William Easterly & Alberto Alesina & Janina Matuszeski [Downloadable!]
• 99 Beyond the IMF
  by Devesh Kapur & Richard Webb [Downloadable!]
• 98 Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Working Paper and Spread Sheet
  by Ruth Levine & Ernst R. Berndt & Rachel Glennerster & Michael R. Kremer & Jean Lee & Georg Weizsacker & Heidi Williams [Downloadable!]
• 97 A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education
  by Deon Filmer & Amer Hasan & Lant Pritchett [Downloadable!]
• 96 Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money
  by Stewart Patrick & Kaysie Brown [Downloadable!]
• 95 A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa
  by Michael A. Clemens & Gunilla Pettersson [Downloadable!]
• 94 Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth
  by William Easterly & Jozef Ritzan & Michael Woolcock [Downloadable!]
• 93 Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings
  by William Easterly [Downloadable!]
• 92 A Primer on Foreign Aid
  by Steve Radelet [Downloadable!]
• 91 A Policymakers' Guide to Dutch Disease
  by Owen Barder [Downloadable!]
• 90 Are the planned increases in aid too much of a good thing?
  by Owen Barder [Downloadable!]
• 89 Competitive Proliferation of Aid Projects: A Model
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 88 Will Debt Relief Make a Difference? Impact and Expectations of the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
  by Todd Moss [Downloadable!]
• 87 Privatization: A Summary Assessment
  by John Nellis [Downloadable!]
• 86 The U.S. External Deficit and the Developing Countries
  by William R. Cline [Downloadable!]
• 85 The Economics of Young Democracies: Policies and Performance
  by Ethan Kapstein & Nathan Converse [Downloadable!]
• 84 Back to the Future for African Infrastructure? Why State-Ownership Is No More Promising the Second Time Around
  by John Nellis [Downloadable!]
• 83 The Role of the IMF in Well-Performing Low-Income Countries
  by Steve Radelet [Downloadable!]
• 82 Tax policies to promote private charitable giving in DAC countries
  by David Roodman & Scott Standley [Downloadable!]
• 81 Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 80 The Costs and Benefits of Front-loading and Predictability of Immunization
  by Owen Barder & Ethan Yeh [Downloadable!]
• 79 How Multinational Investors Evade Developed Country Laws
  by Theodore H. Moran [Downloadable!]
• 78 Governance and Corruption in Public Health Care Systems
  by Maureen Lewis [Downloadable!]
• 77 A Stability and Social Investment Facility for High Debt Countries
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 76 Does the Private Sector Care About AIDS? Evidence from Investment Climate Surveys in East Africa
  by Vijaya Ramachandran & Manju Kedia Shah & Ginger Turner [Downloadable!]
• 75 Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 74 An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
  by Todd Moss & Gunilla Pettersson & Nicolas van de Walle [Downloadable!]
• 73 Weak States and Global Threats: Assessing Evidence of Spillovers
  by Stewart Patrick [Downloadable!]

• 72 The Day After Comrade Bob: Applying Post-Conflict Reconstruction Lessons to Zimbabwe
  by Todd Moss & Stewart Patrick [Downloadable!]
• 71 After the Big Push? Fiscal and Institutional Implications of Large Aid Increases
  by Todd Moss & Arvind Subramanian [Downloadable!]
• 70 Reforming Development Assistance: Lessons from the UK Experience
  by Owen Barder [Downloadable!]
• 69 Disentangling the Determinants of Successful Demobilization and Reintegration
  by Jeremy Weinstein & Macartan Humphreys [Downloadable!]
• 68 Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target
  by Michael Clemens & Todd Moss [Downloadable!]
• 67 An Index of Donor Performance-Revised August 2005
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 66 Production-weighted Estimates of Aggregate Protection in Rich Countries toward Developing Countries
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 65 Reliving the '50s: The Big Push, Poverty Traps, and Takeoffs in Economic Development
  by William Easterly [Downloadable!]
• 64 The Dollar and Development
  by Dick Sabot [Downloadable!]
• 63 Agriculture and Pro-Poor Growth: An Asian Perspective
  by Peter Timmer [Downloadable!]
• 62 The Global War on Terror and U.S. Development Assistance: USAID allocation by country, 1998-2005
  by Todd Moss & David Roodman & Scott Standley [Downloadable!]
• 61 Patents, Price Controls and Access to New Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market Entry
  by Jean O. Lanjouw [Downloadable!]
• 60 Ten Myths of the International Finance Facility
  by Todd Moss [Downloadable!]
• 59 Financial Regulations in Developing Countries: Can they Effectively Limit the Impact of Capital Account Volatility?
  by Liliana Rojas-Suarez [Downloadable!]
• 58 Addressing the Challenge of HIV/AIDS: Macroeconomic, Fiscal and Institutional Issues
  by Maureen Lewis [Downloadable!]
• 57 Autonomous Recovery and International Intervention in Comparative Perspective
  by Jeremy Weinstein [Downloadable!]
• 56 Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data
  by Benn Eifert & Alan Gelb & Vijaya Ramachandran [Downloadable!]
• 55 Primary Health Care in Practice: Is It Effective?
  by Maureen Lewis & Gunnar Eskeland & Ximena Traa-Valerezo [Downloadable!]
• 54 The Economic Implications of Epidemics Old and New
  by Clive Bell & Maureen Lewis [Downloadable!]
• 53 From Pushing Reforms to Pulling Reforms: The Role of Challenge Programs in Foreign Aid Policy
  by Steve Radelet [Downloadable!]

• 52 Behavioral Foundations of Democracy and Development
  by Ethan Kapstein [Downloadable!]
• 51 Food Security and Economic Growth: An Asian Perspective
  by Peter Timmer [Downloadable!]
• 50 Seven Deadly Sins: Reflections on Donor Failings
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 49 Underfunded Regionalism in the Developing World
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 48 Food Security in Indonesia: Current Challenges and the Long-Run Outlook
  by Peter Timmer [Downloadable!]
• 47 Agricultural Protection in Rich Countries: How Did We Get Here
  by Kimberly Ann Elliott [Downloadable!]
• 46 Beyond HIPC: Secure Sustainable Debt Relief for Poor Countries
  by Nancy Birdsall & Brian Deese [Downloadable!]
• 45 Double-Standards, Debt Treatment, and World Bank Country Classification: The Case of Nigeria-Revised November 2004
  by Todd Moss & Scott Standley & Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 44 Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-term Effect of Aid on Growth
  by Michael Clemens & Steven Radelet & Rikhil Bhavnani [Downloadable!]
• 43 Towards a New Consensus for Addressing the Global Challenge of the Lack of Education
  by Lant Pritchett [Downloadable!]
• 42 An Index of Donor Performance
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 41 Is Africa’s Skepticism of Foreign Capital Justified? Evidence from East African Firm Survey Data
  by Todd J. Moss & Vijaya Ramachandran & Manju Kedia Shah [Downloadable!]
• 40 The Trouble with the MDGs: Confronting Expectations of Aid and Development Success
  by Michael A. Clemens & Charles J. Kenny & Todd J. Moss [Downloadable!]
• 39 Aid Effectiveness and the Millennium Development Goals
  by Steven Radelet [Downloadable!]
• 38 The Road to Pro-Poor Growth: The Indonesian Experience in Regional Perspective
  by Peter Timmer [Downloadable!]
• 37 The Long Walk to School: International Education Goals in Historical Perspective
  by Michael Clemens [Downloadable!]
• 36 Boom Towns and Ghost Countries: Geography, Agglomeration, and Population Mobility
  by Lant Pritchett [Downloadable!]
• 35 The Illusion of Sustainability
  by Michael Kremer & Edward Miguel [Downloadable!]

• 34 Once More into the Breach: Economic Growth and Integration
  by Andrew Warner [Downloadable!]
• 33 Who is not Poor? Proposing a Higher International Standard for Poverty
  by Lant Pritchett [Downloadable!]
• 32 The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-country Empirics—Revised July 2004
  by David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 31 Privatization in Latin America
  by John Nellis [Downloadable!]
• 30 The Surprise Party: An Analysis of US ODA Flows to Africa
  by Markus P. Goldstein & Todd J. Moss [Downloadable!]
• 29 Economic Policy and Wage Differentials in Latin America
  by Jere R. Behrman & Nancy Birdsall & Miguel Székely [Downloadable!]
• 28 Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: How Much Should Poor Countries Contribute?
  by William Jack & Jean O. Lanjouw [Downloadable!]
• 27 National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal
  by William Easterly [Downloadable!]
• 26 New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth"
  by William Easterly & Ross Levine & David Roodman [Downloadable!]
• 25 Privatization in Africa: What has Happened? What is to be Done?
  by John Nellis [Downloadable!]
• 24 Bootstraps not Band-Aids: Poverty, Equity and Social Policy in Latin America
  by Nancy Birdsall & Miguel Szekely [Downloadable!]
• 23 The Millennium Challenge Account: How Much is Too Much, How Long is Long Enough?
  by Michael A. Clemens & Steven Radelet [Downloadable!]
• 22 Why it Matters Who Runs the IMF and the World Bank-Updated October 2003
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]

• 21 From Social Policy to an Open-Economy Social Contract in Latin America
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 20 World Bank Capital Neither Complements Nor Substitutes for Private Capital
  by Michael Clemens [Downloadable!]
• 19 Do Rich Countries Invest Less in Poor Countries than the Poor Countries Themselves?
  by Michael Clemens [Downloadable!]
• 17 Policy Selectivity Foregone: Debt and Donor Behavior in Africa
  by Nancy Birdsall & Stijn Claessens & Ishac Diwan [Downloadable!]
• 16 Do as I Say Not as I Do: A Critique of G-7 Proposals on Reforming the MDBs
  by Devesh Kapur [Downloadable!]
• 15 Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development
  by William Easterly & Ross Levine [Downloadable!]
• 14 An Index of Industrial Country Trade Policy Toward Developing Countries
  by William Cline [Downloadable!]
• 13 Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development
  by Shantayanan Devarajan & William R. Easterly & Howard Pack [Downloadable!]
• 12 Asymmetric Globalization: Global Markets Require Good Global Politics
  by Nancy Birdsall [Downloadable!]
• 11 What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans
  by William Easterly [Downloadable!]

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