Content
2019
- 154 Digital Technology and State Capacity in Kenya
by Njuguna Ndung’u - 153 “Contractors or Collectives?” Earmarked Funding of Multilaterals, Donor Needs and Institutional Integrity: The World Bank as a Case Study
by Owen Barder & Euan Ritchie & Andrew Rogerson - 152 UK Research Aid: Tied, Opaque and Off-Topic?
by Lee Robinson & Euan Ritchie & Charles Kenny - 151 Trends in Private Capital Flows to Low-Income Countries: Good and Not-So-Good News
by Nancy Lee & Asad Sami - 150 Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships
by Michael Clemens & Helen Dempster & Katelyn Gough - 149 Fuel Subsidy Reform and Green Taxes: Can Digital Technologies Improve State Capacity and Effectiveness?
by Alan Gelb & Anit Mukherjee - 148 Steps Toward Forest Landscape Restoration in The Context of The Rohingya Influx: Creating Opportunities to Advance Environmental, Humanitarian, and Development Progress in Bangladesh
by Heather Tallis & Cindy Huang & John Herbohn & Karen Holl & Sharif A. Mukul & KAM Morshed - 147 Transforming the Institutional Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for Leveraging Africa’s Research Capacity to Achieve Socioeconomic Development
by Alex Ezeh & Jessie Lu - 146 Developing a More Inclusive US Trade Policy at Home and Abroad
by Kimberly Ann Elliott - 145 Imagining the Alternative Worlds of 2030: Policy Implications for the Future of Global Health Procurement
by Janeen Madan Keller & William Savedoff - 144 Public Financial Management and the Digitalization of Payments
by Marco Cangiano & Alan Gelb & Ruth Goodwin-Groen - 143 Does the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Help or Hinder Financial Inclusion? A Study of FATF Mutual Evaluation Reports
by Michael Pisa - 142 The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project
by Scott Morris - 141 Downsizing Defense in Development: Unpacking DOD’s Development Assistance
by Sarah Rose - 140 The Quality of UK Aid Spending, 2011–2018: An Analysis of Evaluations by the Independent Commission on Aid Impact
by Ian Mitchell & Arthur Baker - 139 Improving Global Health Supply Chains through Traceability
by Michael Pisa & Denise McCurdy - 138 Governing Big Tech’s Pursuit of the “Next Billion Users”
by Michael Pisa & John Polcari - 137 The Two Hundred Billion Dollar Question: How to Get the Biggest Impact from the 2019 Replenishments
by Andrew Rogerson & Owen Barder - 136 The EU’s Financial Architecture for External Investment: Progress, Challenges, and Options
by Mikaela Gavas & Hannah Timmis - 135 Examining World Bank Lending to China: Graduation or Modulation?
by Scott Morris & Gailyn Portelance
2018
- 134 UK Aid Quality Indicators
by Caitlin McKee & Ian Mitchell & Arthur Baker - 133 Development Impact Bonds Targeting Health Outcomes
by Lorcan Clarke & Kalipso Chalkidou & Cassandra Nemzoff - 132 Should Developing Countries Sign the OECD Multilateral Instrument to Address Treaty-Related Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Measures?
by Annet Wanyana Oguttu - 131 Trusted Digital Identity Provision: GOV.UK Verify’s Federated Approach
by Edgar A. Whitley - 130 Energy Dividends in Bolivia: Are There Any Alternatives to Price Subsidies?
by Roberto Laserna - 129 What Are We Getting from Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Coffee?
by Kimberly Ann Elliott - 128 What Mining Can Learn from Oil: A Study of Special Transfer Pricing Practices in the Oil Sector, and their Potential Application to Hard Rock Minerals
by Alexandra Readhead - 127 Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: Proposed Governance Arrangements for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility
by Michele de Nevers & Patricia Bliss-Guest & Kenneth Lay & Michael Wolosin - 126 Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: Proposed Financing Strategy for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility
by Kenneth Lay & Michele de Nevers & Michael Wolosin & Patricia Bliss-Guest - 125 Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: A Proposal for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility
by Michele de Nevers & Kenneth Lay & Michael Wolosin & Patricia Bliss-Guest - 124 Atoms for Africa: Is There a Future for Civil Nuclear Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa?
by Abigail Sah & Jessica Lovering & Omaro Maseli & Aishwarya Saxena - 123 Illicit Financial Flows, Trade Misinvoicing, and Multinational Tax Avoidance: The Same or Different?
by Maya Forstater - 122 Perspective in Economic Evaluations of Healthcare Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: One Size Does Not Fit All
by Kalipso Chalkidou & Anthony J. Culyer & Cassandra Nemzoff - 121 Examining the Debt Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative from a Policy Perspective
by John Hurley & Scott Morris & Gailyn Portelance - 120 What Can We Learn about Energy Access and Demand from Mobile-Phone Surveys? Nine Findings from Twelve African Countries
by Ben Leo & Jared Kalow & Todd Moss - 119 Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low-Income Countries
by Michael A. Clemens & Hannah M. Postel - 118 Tax and Development: New Frontiers of Research and Action
by Maya Forstater - 117 Structuring and Funding Development Impact Bonds for Health: Nine Lessons from Cameroon and Beyond
by Roxanne Oroxom & Amanda Glassman & Lachlan McDonald - 116 Comparing Five Bilateral Development Finance Institutions and the IFC
by Charles Kenny & Jared Kalow & Ben Leo & Vijaya Ramachandran - 115 Inside the Portfolio of the International Finance Corporation: Does IFC Do Enough in Low-Income Countries?
by Charles Kenny & Jared Kalow & Vijaya Ramachandran
2017
- 114 Fuel Subsidy Reform in Developing Countries: Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG Cooking Gas Subsidy in India
by Neeraj Mittal & Anit Mukherjee & Alan Gelb - 113 Working Itself Out of a Job: USAID and Smart Strategic Transitions
by Sarah Rose & Erin Collinson & Jared Kalow - 112 Leveraging the Links between Migration and Development: US Government Policy, Practice, and Potential
by Kathleen Newland - 111 When Do Subsidy Reforms Stick? Lessons from Iran, Nigeria, and India
by Priscilla Atansah & Masoomeh Khandan & Todd Moss & Anit Mukherjee & Jennifer Richmond - 110 Assessing “Leverage” in the Climate Investment Funds
by Michele de Nevers - 109 The Electricity Situation in Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities
by Ebenezer Nyarko Kumi - 108 Financing for Whom by Whom? Complexities of Advancing Energy Access in India
by Kartikeya Singh - 107 Blockchain and Economic Development: Hype vs. Reality
by Michael Pisa & Matt Juden - 106 Investing UK Aid in a Global Skills Partnership: Better Health at Home and Abroad
by Michael Anderson & Caitlin McKee & Theodore Talbot - 105 The Digital Transformation and Disruptive Technologies: Challenges and Solutions for the Electricity Sector in African Markets
by Ijeoma Onyeji-Nwogu & Morgan Bazilian & Todd Moss - 104 Girls’ Schooling and Women’s Literacy: Schooling Targets Alone Won’t Reach Learning Goals
by Lant Pritchett & Justin Sandefur - 103 Trade Misinvoicing in Developing Countries
by Volker Nitsch - 102 A Global Treaty to Reduce Antimicrobial Use in Livestock
by Kimberly Ann Elliott & Charles Kenny & Janeen Madan - 101 Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
by Michael A. Clemens & Hannah Postel - 100 Beyond Brexit: Four Steps to Make Britain a Global Leader on Trade for Development
by Lee Crawfurd & Ian Mitchell & Michael Anderson - 99 Implementing Ownership at USAID and MCC: A US Agency-Level Perspective
by Casey Dunning & Sarah Rose & Claire McGillem
2016
- 98 The Use and Utility of US Government Approaches to Country Ownership: New Insights from Partner Countries
by Sarah Rose & Jared Kalow & Bradley Parks & Takaaki Masaki - 97 Fiscal Devolution and Health Financing Reform: Lessons for India from Brazil, China, and Mexico
by Anit Mukherjee - 96 Learning Data for Better Policy: A Global Agenda
by Nancy Birdsall & Barbara Bruns & Janeen Madan - 95 A Global Offer for Learning (GOL): Based on Experiences with Paying for Results
by William Savedoff - 94 Is There a Goldilocks Solution? “Just Right” Promotion of Labor Mobility
by Lant Pritchett & Rebekah Smith - 93 Nigeria Will Become Polio-Free: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned for the Quest to Eradicate Polio
by Alykhan Premji & Paige W. Sholar & Azfar Hossain & Kunal Potnis & Lisa Wanda & Jamal Edwards & Laura Winn & Lexia Chadwick & David Boyd - 92 Cash on Delivery Aid for Energy
by William Savedoff - 91 Responding to AIIB: U.S. Leadership at the Multilateral Development Banks in a New Era
by Scott Morris - 90 To Control Migration Flows and Defeat Human Smuggling, Sell Visas
by Alice Mesnard & Emmanuelle Auriol - 89 After Brexit: New Opportunities for Global Good in the National Interest
by Michael Anderson & Matt Juden & Andrew Rogerson - 88 People, Productivity, and Policy: Product Growth Perspective in the Medium and Long Run in Brazil
by Sergei Soares - 87 Payouts for Perils: Why Disaster Aid is Broken, and How Catastrophe Insurance Can Help to Fix It
by Theodore Talbot & Owen Barder - 86 Global Health, Aid and Corruption: Can We Escape the Scandal Cycle?
by William Savedoff & Amanda Glassman & Janeen Madan - 85 How Much and How Well: Revisiting the Aid Component of the Commitment to Development Index
by Owen Barder & Petra Krylova & Theodore Talbot - 83 How Does OPIC Balance Risks, Additionality, and Development? Proposals for Greater Transparency and Stoplight Filters
by Benjamin Leo & Todd Moss - 82 Creating a Better Candidate Pool for the Millennium Challenge Corporation
by Sarah Rose & Nancy Birdsal & Anna Diofasi - 81 Inside the Portfolio of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
by Benjamin Leo & Todd Moss - 80 Can GMOs Deliver for Africa?
by Kimberly Elliott & Janeen Madan - 79 How Much “Mega” in the Mega-Regional TPP and TTIP: Implications for Developing Countries
by Kimberly Elliott - 78 TPP Risks and TTIP Opportunities: Rules of Origin, Trade Diversion, and Developing Countries
by Kimberly Elliott - 77 Do the Results Match the Rhetoric? An Examination of World Bank Gender Projects
by Charles Kenny & Megan O’Donnell - 76 Anti-Corruption Strategies in Foreign Aid: From Controls to Results
by William Savedoff - 75 Assessing the US Feed the Future Initiative: A New Approach to Food Security?
by Kimberly Elliott & Casey Dunning - 74 Balancing Financial Integrity with Financial Inclusion: The Risk-Based Approach to “Know Your Customer”
by Alan Gelb - 73 Alternatives to HIPC for African Debt-Distressed Countries: Lessons from Myanmar, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe
by Tendai Biti & Benjamin Leo & Scott Morris & Todd Moss - 72 How the Green Climate Fund Could Promote REDD+ through a Cash on Delivery Instrument: Issues and Options
by William Savedoff
2015
- 71 The Role of Industrial Policy as a Development Tool: New Evidence from the Globalization of Trade-and-Investment
by Theodore H. Moran - 70 Payment System Regulation for Improving Financial Inclusion
by Maria Chiara Malaguti - 69 Can Stopping 'Tax Dodging' by Multinational Enterprises Close the Gap in Development Finance?
by Maya Forstater - 68 Missed Opportunities in Global Health: Identifying New Strategies to Improve Mental Health in LMICs
by Victoria de Menil - 67 SkyShares: Modelling the Economic Implications of a Future Global Emissions Budget
by Owen Barder & Alex Evans & Alice Lépissier - 66 Finding Cash for Infrastructure in Addis: Blending, Lending and Guarantees in Finance for Development
by Charles Kenny - 65 Enabling Digital Financial Inclusion through Improvements in Competition and Interoperability: What Works and What Doesn't?
by Marc Bourreau & Tommaso Valletti - 64 Indonesia’s Missing Millions: Erasing Discrimination in Birth Certification in Indonesia
by Cate Sumner - 63 Technology, Development, and the Post-2015 Settlement
by Charles Kenny & Owen Barder - 62 The Single Best Health Policy in the World: Tobacco Taxes
by William Savedoff & Albert Alwang - 61 Basel III in Chile: Advantages, Disadvantages and Challenges of Implementing the New International Standard for Bank Capital (English and Spanish Versions)
by Liliana Rojas-Suarez - 60 The Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership: A Murder Mystery
by Robin Davies - 59 Antibiotics on the Farm: Agriculture’s Role in Drug Resistance
by Kimberly Elliott - 58 The World Bank at 75
by Scott Morris & Madeleine Gleave - 57 Benchmarking Supply Chains for Better Performance
by Ananth Iyer & Gemma Berenguer & Prashant Yadav & Amanda Glassman - 56 The Indonesia-Norway REDD+ Agreement: A Glass Half-Full
by Frances Seymour & Nancy Birdsall & William Savedoff - 55 Evolution of Finance for REDD+ in the UK: A History and Overview of the UK Government’s Engagement with Forest Finance, with a Focus on Performance- Based Payments for REDD+
by Kate Dooley & Charlie Parker - 54 When Agglomeration Theory Meets Development Reality: Preliminary Lessons from Twenty World Bank Private Sector Projects
by Alan Gelb & Gaiv Tata & Vijaya Ramachandran & Ivan Rossignol - 53 Better Hospitals, Better Health Systems: The Urgency of a Hospital Agenda
by Maureen Lewis - 52 Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountability and Discretion in Four Case Studies
by Rita Perakis & William Savedoff - 51 Biofuel Policies: Fuel versus Food, Forests, and Climate
by Kimberly Elliott - 50 The Future of Aid: Building Knowledge Collectively
by Ruth Levine & William Savedoff
2014
- 49 The $138.5 Billion Question: When Does Foreign Aid Work (and When Doesn’t It)?
by Jonathan Glennie & Andy Sumner - 48 US Support for REDD+: Reflections on the Past and Future Outlook
by Michael Wolosin & Donna Lee - 47 Should Countries Be More Like Shopping Malls? A Proposal for Service Performance Guarantees for Africa
by Alan Gelb & Vijaya Ramachandran & Alice Rossignol - 46 Birth Registration, Legal Identity, and the Post-2015 Agenda
by Casey Dunning & Alan Gelb & Sneha Raghavan - 45 Citizen Voice in a Globalized World
by Lawrence MacDonald & Bobby Fishkin & David Witzel - 44 Straightening the Measuring Stick: A 14-Point Plan for Reforming the Definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA)
by David Roodman - 43 Money to the People: Estimates of the Potential Scale of Direct Dividend Payments in Africa
by Marcelo Giugale & Nga Thi Viet Nguyen - 42 Towards Strong and Stable Capital Markets in Emerging Market Economies
by Liliana Rojas-Suarez - 41 Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Development Finance: Risks and Opportunities
by Alan Gelb & Silvana Tordo & Håvard Halland & Noora Arfaa & Gregory Smith - 40 Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in a Mobile World
by Michael A. Clemens - 39 The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank: Fit for 21st Century Purpose?
by Nancy Birdsall - 38 Balancing Energy Access and Environmental Goals in Development Finance: The Case of the OPIC Carbon Cap
by Todd Moss & Roger Pielke & Morgan Bazilian - 37 Regional Public Goods in Finance, Trade, and Infrastructure: An Agenda for Latin America
by Guillermo Perry - 35 Armageddon or Adolescence? Making Sense of Microfinance’s Recent Travails
by David Roodman
2013
- 34 Illicit Financial Flows and the 2013 Commitment to Development Index
by Petr Janský - 33 HIV/AIDS Intervention Packages in Five Countries: A Review of Budget Data
by Victoria Fan & Denizhan Duran & Rachel Silverman & Amanda Glassman - 32 Subsidizing Farmers and Biofuels in Rich Countries: An Incoherent Agenda for Food Security
by Kimberly Elliott - 31 Grant Performance and Payments at the Global Fund
by Victoria Fan & Denizhan Duran & Rachel Silverman & Amanda Glassman - 30 Moving Beyond Mines and Mobiles: How Can IFC Add Value in Fragile States?
by Charles Kenny - 29 The United States: From Multilateral Champion to Handicapped Donor…and Back Again?
by Nancy Birdsall & Alexis Sowa - 28 Privacy and Biometric ID Systems: An Approach Using Fair Information Practices for Developing Countries
by Robert Gellman - 27 The Financial Flows of PEPFAR: A Profile
by Victoria Fan & Rachel Silverman & Denizhan Duran & Amanda Glassman - 26 The Global Partnership for Development: A Review of MDG 8 and Proposals for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
by Charles Kenny & Sarah Dykstra - 25 Measuring Think Tank Performance: An Index of Public Profile
by Julia Clark & David Roodman - 24 Oil-to-Cash Won't Work Here! Ten Common Objections
by Todd Moss & Stephanie Majerowicz - 23 An Index of Constructive External Engagement (ICEE)
by David Roodman - 22 Après la Dette, le Déluge? How a Generous Debt Deal in Paris Could Add to an Aid Flood in Myanmar
by David Roodman - 21 Four Changes to Trade Rules to Facilitate Climate Change Action
by Aaditya Mattoo & Arvind Subramanian - 20 Performance Lessons from India’s Universal Identification Program
by Alan Gelb & Julia Clark - 19 Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Maternal and Newborn Health
by Amanda Glassman & Denizhan Duran & Marge Koblinsky - 18 What’s Yours Is Mine: New Actors and New Approaches to Asset Recovery in Global Corruption Cases
by Andrew Marshall
2012
- 17 Is My Fair Trade Coffee Really Fair? Trends and Challenges in Fair Trade Certification
by Kimberly Elliott - 16 Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy
by Saugato Datta & Sendhil Mullainathan - 15 Mobilizing the Private Sector: Quantity-Performance Instruments for Public Climate Funds
by Arunabha Ghosh & Benito Müller & William Pizer & Gernot Wagner - 14 Governance of New Global Partnerships: Challenges, Weaknesses, and Lessons
by Keith A. Bezanson & Paul Isenman - 13 Economic Assistance in Conflict Zones: Lessons from Afghanistan
by Ethan Kapstein & Kamna Kathuria - 12 From Schooling Goals to Learning Goals: How Fast Can Student Learning Improve?
by Amanda Beatty & Lant Pritchett - 11 Publish What You Buy: The Case for Routine Publication of Government Contracts
by Charles Kenny & Jonathan Karver - 10 Assessing the Quality of Aid for Agriculture
by Kimberly Elliott & Edward Collins - 9 A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization
by Amanda Glassman & Juan Ignacio Zoloa & Denizhan Duran - 8 The Evolution of India’s UID Program: Lessons Learned and Implications for Other Developing Countries
by Frances Zelazny - 7 The World Bank and Climate Change: Forever a Big Fish in a Small Pond?
by Nancy Birdsall - 6 FORMA and fCPR: Accelerating a Performance-Based Payment System for REDD+
by Michele de Nevers - 5 Ag Aid and Tech Breakthroughs: Pull Funding for Smallholder Productivity
by Kimberly Ann Elliott - 4 Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?
by Vijaya Ramachandran & Julie Walz - 3 The Global Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the End of the “Development” Agenda?
by Nancy Birdsall - 2 Incentives for Life: Cash-on-Delivery Aid for Tobacco Control in Developing Countries
by Thomas J. Bollyky & Amanda Glassman - 1 Adaptation Finance: How to Get Out from between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Nancy Birdsall & Michele de Nevers