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Center for Global Development

Working Papers

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2009

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!]

2008

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!]

2007

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!]

2006

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!]

2005

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!]

2004

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!]

2003

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!]

2002

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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