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Working Papers
Title: Guarantees, Subsidies, or Paying for Success? Choosing the Right Instruments to Catalyze Private Investment in Developing Countries
Authors: Owen Barder, Theodore Talbot
Date: May 2015Title: The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints
Authors: Martin Ravallion
Date: April 2015Title: The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints
Authors: Martin Ravallion
Date: April 2015Title: The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: April 2015Title: The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: April 2015Title: The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies to Expand Treatment to HIV-Positive South Africans: Scale Economies and Outreach Costs
Authors: Gesine Meyer-Rath, Mead Over, Daniel J. Klein, Anna Bershteyn
Date: April 2015Title: Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?
Authors: Ben Leo, Robert Morello, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Peixoto, Stephen Davenport
Date: April 2015Title: Trade, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States
Authors: Davide Gandolfi, Timothy Halliday, Raymond Robertson
Date: March 2015Title: Trade, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States
Authors: Davide Gandolfi, Timothy Halliday, Raymond Robertson
Date: March 2015Title: Multiple Inequalities and Policies to Mitigate Inequality Traps in Pakistan
Authors: Abid Aman Burki, Rashid Memon, Khalid Mir
Date: March 2015Title: Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala
Authors: Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig, Hilcías E. Morán
Date: March 2015Title: The Impact of Gavi on Vaccination Rates: Regression Discontinuity Evidence
Authors: Sarah Dykstra, Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny, Justin Sandefur
Date: February 2015Title: The Face of African Infrastructure: Service Availability and Citizens' Demands
Authors: Benjamin Leo, Robert Morello, Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: February 2015Title: The Face of African Infrastructure: Service Availability and Citizens' Demands
Authors: Benjamin Leo, Robert Morello, Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: February 2015Title: Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths
Authors: Willa Friedman
Date: February 2015Title: Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths
Authors: Willa Friedman
Date: February 2015Title: Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production: Accounting Versus Economic Cost of Primary Schooling in India
Authors: Lant Pritchett, Yamini Aiyar
Date: December 2014Title: Two Global Challenges, One Solution: International Cooperation to Combat Climate Change and Tropical Deforestation
Authors: Antonio G.M. La Viña, Alaya de Leon
Date: December 2014Title: The Politics of German Finance for REDD+
Authors: Till Pistorius, Laura Kiff
Date: December 2014Title: Measurement and Monitoring for REDD+: The Needs, Current Technological Capabilities and Future Potential
Authors: Scott J. Goetz, Matthew Hansen, Richard A. Houghton, Wayne Walker, Nadine Laporte, Jonah Busch
Date: December 2014Title: Climate Policy Constraints and NGO Entrepreneurship: The Story of Norway's Leadership in REDD+ Financing
Authors: Erlend A. T. Hermansen, Sjur Kasa
Date: December 2014Title: Why Maintaining Tropical Forests Is Essential and Urgent for a Stable Climate
Authors: Rosa C. Goodman, Martin Herold
Date: November 2014Title: To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
Authors: Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell, Pia Raffler
Date: November 2014Title: The California REDD+ Experience: The Ongoing Political History of California's Initiative to Include Jurisdictional REDD+ Offsets within Its Cap-and-Trade System
Authors: Jesse Lueders, Cara Horowitz, Ann Carlson, Sean B. Hecht, Edward A. Parson
Date: November 2014Title: Who Pollutes? A Household-Level Database of America's Greenhouse Gas Footprint
Authors: Kevin Ummel
Date: October 2014Title: Trading Forests: Quantifying the Contribution of Global Commodity Markets to Emissions from Tropical Deforestation
Authors: Martin Persson, Sabine Henders, Thomas Kastner
Date: October 2014Title: The Value of Forest Ecosystem Services to Developing Economies
Authors: Katrina Mullan
Date: October 2014Title: How Much Will Health Coverage Cost? Future Health Spending Scenarios in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
Authors: Amanda Glassman, Juan Ignacio Zoloa
Date: October 2014Title: Ecosystem Services from Tropical Forests: Review of Current Science
Authors: Katrina Brandon
Date: October 2014Title: Costing a Data Revolution
Authors: Gabriel Demombynes, Justin Sandefur
Date: October 2014Title: Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat
Authors: Paul Novosad, Eric Werker
Date: September 2014Title: The State of REDD+ Finance
Authors: Marigold Norman, Smita Nakhooda
Date: September 2014Title: Self‐Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Authors: Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry
Date: September 2014Title: How Has the Developing World Changed since the Late 1990s? A Dynamic and Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries
Authors: Andy Sumner, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez
Date: August 2014Title: The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey & Administrative Statistics
Authors: Justin Sandefur, Amanda Glassman
Date: July 2014Title: How Should Donors Respond to Resource Windfalls in Poor Countries?
Authors: Anton Dobronogov, Alan Gelb, Fernando Brant Saldanha
Date: July 2014Title: Understanding Latin America's Financial Inclusion Gap
Authors: Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Maria Alejandra Amado
Date: May 2014Title: A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: May 2014Title: What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies
Authors: Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon, Jonah Busch
Date: April 2014Title: The Health Financing Transition: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence
Authors: Victoria Fan, William Savedoff
Date: March 2014Title: Does Development Reduce Migration?
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: March 2014Title: Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States
Authors: Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig, Whitney Ruble, Timothy Smeeding
Date: March 2014Title: Stunted Growth: Why Don't African Firms Create More Jobs?
Authors: Leonardo Iacovone, Vijaya Ramachandran, Martin Schmidt
Date: February 2014Title: Scarcity without Leviathan: The Violent Effects of Cocaine Supply Shortages in the Mexican Drug War
Authors: Juan Camilo Castillo, Daniel Mejia, Pascual Restrepo
Date: February 2014Title: Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development
Authors: Michael Clemens, Timothy N. Ogden
Date: February 2014Title: Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development
Authors: Michael Clemens, Timothy N. Ogden
Date: February 2014Title: From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector
Authors: Oeindrila Dube, Omar Garcia-Ponce, Kevin Thom
Date: February 2014Title: Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa's Missing Middle
Authors: Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer, Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: February 2014Title: Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa's Missing Middle
Authors: Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer, Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: February 2014Title: The Median Is the Message: A Good-Enough Measure of Material Well-Being and Shared Development Progress
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Christian Meyer
Date: January 2014Title: Rethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank
Authors: Devesh Kapur, Arjun Raychaudhuri
Date: January 2014Title: Estimating Illicit Flows of Capital via Trade Mispricing: A Forensic Analysis of Data on Switzerland
Authors: Alex Cobham, Petr Janský, Alex Prats
Date: January 2014Title: Primary Schooling, Student Learning, and School Quality in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury
Date: December 2013Title: Is Anyone Listening? Does US Foreign Assistance Target People's Top Priorities?
Authors: Ben Leo
Date: December 2013Title: Supplementing REDD+ with Biodiversity Payments: The Paradox of Paying for Multiple Ecosystem Services
Authors: Jonah Busch
Date: November 2013Title: Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda
Authors: Dean Karlan, Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Jonathan Zinman
Date: November 2013Title: HIV/AIDS Intervention Packages in Five Countries: A Review of Budget Data
Authors: Victoria Fan, Denizhan Duran, Rachel Silverman, Amanda Glassman
Date: October 2013Title: Can Results-Based Payments Reduce Corruption?
Authors: Charles Kenny, William Savedoff
Date: October 2013Title: The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy
Authors: Michael Clemens, Gabriel Demombynes
Date: September 2013Title: The Geography of Inequality: Where and by How Much Has Income Distribution Changed since 1990?
Authors: Peter Edward, Andy Sumner
Date: September 2013Title: Social Capital and Disaster Recovery: Evidence from Sichuan Earthquake in 2008
Authors: Chun Wing Tse, Jianwen Wei, Yihan Wang
Date: September 2013Title: Planning for Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power in South Africa: Identifying Cost-Effective Deployment Strategies Using Spatiotemporal Modeling
Authors: Kevin Ummel
Date: September 2013Title: Is It All About the Tails? The Palma Measure of Income Inequality
Authors: Alex Cobham, Andy Sumner
Date: September 2013Title: Estimating Income / Expenditure Differences across Populations: New Fun with Old Engel's Law
Authors: Lant Pritchett Marla Spivack
Date: August 2013Title: When Is Prevention More Profitable than Cure? The Impact of Time-Varying Consumer Heterogeneity
Authors: Michael Kremer, Christopher M. Snyder
Date: July 2013Title: The Case for Direct Transfers of Resource Revenues in Africa
Authors: Shantayanan Devarajan, Marcelo Giugale
Date: July 2013Title: Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda
Authors: Julian Jameson, Dean Karlan, Pia Raffler
Date: July 2013Title: First Steps toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (QUODA-CF)
Authors: Katherine Sierra, Timmons Roberts, Michele de Nevers, Claire Langley, Cory Smith
Date: July 2013Title: The Future of Global Poverty in a Multi-Speed World: New Estimates of Scale and Location, 2010–2030
Authors: Peter Edward, Andy Sumner
Date: June 2013Title: Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique
Authors: Jenny Aker, Paul Collier, Pedro C. Vicente
Date: June 2013Title: The Effect of Foreign Labor on Native Employment: A Job-Specific Approach and Application to North Carolina Farms
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: May 2013Title: Split Decisions: Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Authors: Michael Clemens, Erwin Tiongson
Date: May 2013Title: Does Poor Mean Cheap? A Comparative Look at Africa's Industrial Labor Costs
Authors: Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer, Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: May 2013Title: Après la Dette, le Déluge? How a Generous Debt Deal in Paris Could Add to an Aid Flood in Myanmar
Authors: David Roodman
Date: May 2013Title: It's All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning ("e") to Crawl the Design Space
Authors: Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji, Jeffrey Hammer
Date: April 2013Title: China's Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection
Authors: Austin Strange, Bradley C. Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher, Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: April 2013Title: Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education
Authors: Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Alice Ng'ang'a, Justin Sandefur
Date: March 2013Title: Nowhere Left to Hide? Stock Market Correlation, Regional Diversification, and the Case for Investing in Africa
Authors: Todd Moss, Ross Thuotte
Date: March 2013Title: Macroprudential Regulations in Central America
Authors: Alejandro Izquierdo, Rudy Loo-Kung, Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Date: March 2013Title: Macroprudential Regulations in Andean Countries
Authors: Arturo J. Galindo, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Marielle del Valle
Date: March 2013Title: Forest Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) Report 2: Bad News for the Pan-Tropics and Everybody Else
Authors: David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft
Date: March 2013Title: Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Authors: Jenny Aker
Date: March 2013Title: Getting to Normal with the Two Sudans
Authors: ate Almquist Knopf
Date: February 2013Title: What Is Governance?
Authors: Francis Fukuyama
Date: January 2013Title: Identification for Development: The Biometrics Revolution
Authors: Alan Gelb, Julia Clark
Date: January 2013Title: Europe Beyond Aid: Assessing Europe's Commitment to Development
Authors: Owen Barder, Julia Clark, Alice Lépissier, Liza Reynolds, David Roodman
Date: December 2012Title: The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Authors: Nora Lustig
Date: November 2012Title: Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development
Authors: Dean Karlan, Ryan Knight, Christopher Udry
Date: November 2012Title: Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Authors: Dean Karlan, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Christopher Udry
Date: November 2012Title: The Buoyant Billions: How "Middle Class" Are the New Middle Classes in Developing Countries? (And Why Does It Matter?)
Authors: Andy Sumner
Date: October 2012Title: Migration and Disaster-Induced Displacement: European Policy, Practice, and Perspective
Authors: Michael D. Cooper
Date: October 2012Title: Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Authors: Nora Lustig, Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
Date: October 2012Title: Where Will the World's Poor Live? An Update on Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion
Authors: Andy Sumner
Date: September 2012Title: Direct Distribution of Oil Revenues in Venezuela: A Viable Alternative?
Authors: Pedro L. Rodríguez, José R. Morales, Francisco J. Monaldi
Date: September 2012Title: The Evolution of India's UID Program: Lessons Learned and Implications for Other Developing Countries
Authors: Frances Zelazny
Date: August 2012Title: Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India's Maoist Belt
Authors: Devesh Kapur, Kishore Gawande, Shanker Satyanath
Date: August 2012Title: Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India's Maoist Belt
Authors: Devesh Kapur, Kishore Gawande, Shanker Satyanath
Date: August 2012Title: CARMA Revisited: An Updated Database of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants Worldwide
Authors: Kevin Ummel
Date: August 2012Title: Assessing the Quality of Aid for Agriculture
Authors: Kimberly Elliott, Edward Collins
Date: August 2012Title: A Note on the Middle Class in Latin America
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: August 2012Title: A Note on the Middle Class in Latin America
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: August 2012Title: A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization
Authors: Amanda Glassman, Juan Ignacio Zoloa, Denizhan Duran
Date: August 2012Title: No Longer Poor: Ghana's New Income Status and Implications of Graduation from IDA
Authors: Todd Moss, Stephanie Majerowicz
Date: July 2012Title: Energy+ Country Performance Ratings, 2001–2010
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: July 2012Title: State Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India
Authors: Victoria Fan, Anup Karan, Ajay Mahal
Date: June 2012Title: MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe?
Authors: Jonathan Karver, Charles Kenny, Andy Sumner
Date: June 2012Title: Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)
Authors: Matt Andrews, Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock
Date: June 2012Title: Competitiveness in Central America: The Road to Sustained Growth and Poverty Reduction
Authors: José Luis Guasch, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Veronica Gonzales
Date: June 2012Title: Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran, Julie Walz
Date: May 2012Title: FCPR–Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics
Authors: Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft
Date: May 2012Title: Capital Requirements under Basel III in Latin America: The Cases of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
Authors: Arturo J. Galindo, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Marielle del Valle
Date: May 2012Title: Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
Authors: Kate McQueston, Rachel Silverman, Amanda Glassman
Date: May 2012Title: Value for Money in Malaria Programming: Issues and Opportunities
Authors: Paul Wilson, Ya'ir Aizenman
Date: April 2012Title: The Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment 2009: Is Aid Quality Improving?
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Homi Kharas, Rita Perakis
Date: April 2012Title: The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Authors: Lant Pritchett, Amanda Beatty
Date: April 2012Title: The Global Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the End of the "Development" Agenda?
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: April 2012Title: Supporting Private Business Growth in African Fragile States: A Guiding Framework for the World Bank Group in South Sudan and Other Nations
Authors: Benjamin Leo, Vijaya Ramachandran, Ross Thuotte
Date: April 2012Title: Incentives for Life: Cash-on-Delivery Aid for Tobacco Control in Developing Countries
Authors: Thomas J. Bollyky, Amanda Glassman
Date: April 2012Title: Energizing Rio+20: How the United States Can Promote Sustainable Energy for All at the 2012 Earth Summit
Authors: Nigel Purvis, Abigail Jones
Date: April 2012Title: How Much Does Natural Resource Extraction Really Diminish National Wealth? The Implications of Discovery
Authors: Alan Gelb, Kai Kaiser, Lorena Viñuela
Date: March 2012Title: Is There Such a Thing As Middle Class Values?
Authors: Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Jamele Rigolini, Florencia Torche
Date: February 2012Title: Credit at Times of Stress: Latin American Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis
Authors: Carlos Montoro, Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Date: February 2012Title: An Index of the Quality of Official Development Assistance in Health
Authors: Denizhan Duran, Amanda Glassman
Date: February 2012Title: What's Wrong with Dodd-Frank 1502? Conflict Minerals, Civilian Livelihoods, and the Unintended Consequences of Western Advocacy
Authors: Laura E. Seay
Date: January 2012Title: Remittances and Rashomon
Authors: Randall Akee, Devesh Kapur
Date: January 2012Title: The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country
Authors: Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur
Date: December 2011Title: Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India
Authors: Devesh Kapur, Milan Vaishnav
Date: December 2011Title: Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendation of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development
Authors: Charles Kenny
Date: December 2011Title: More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved?
Authors: Charles Kenny, Andy Sumner
Date: December 2011Title: From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing
Authors: David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft
Date: December 2011Title: Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011
Authors: David Wheeler, Robin Kraft, Dan Hammer
Date: December 2011Title: Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia
Authors: David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta, Brian Blankespoor
Date: December 2011Title: Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies: A Proposal
Authors: Shantayanan Devarajan, Hélène Ehrhart, Tuan Minh Le, Gaël Raballand
Date: December 2011Title: A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Authors: Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
Date: December 2011Title: Publishing Construction Contracts as a Tool for Efficiency and Good Governance
Authors: Charles Kenny
Date: November 2011Title: Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistance
Authors: Julie Walz, Vijaya Ramachandran
Date: November 2011Title: Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?
Authors: Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur
Date: October 2011Title: Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: What Do Shifts in Global Poverty and the Global Disease Burden Mean for GAVI and the Global Fund?
Authors: Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran, Andy Sumner
Date: October 2011Title: Zap It to Me: The Short-Term Impacts of a Mobile Cash Transfer Program
Authors: Jenny Aker, Rachid Boumnijel, Amanda McClelland, Niall Tierney
Date: September 2011Title: Unity in Diversity: A Global Consensus on Choosing the IMF's Managing Director—Evidence from CGD's Online Survey
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: September 2011Title: The Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Five Practical Recommendations (CGD Brief)
Authors: Gregory Johnson, Vijaya Ramachandran, Julie Walz
Date: September 2011Title: Iraq's Last Window: Diffusing the Risks of a Petro-State
Authors: Johnny West
Date: September 2011Title: Dial "A" for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries
Authors: Jenny Aker
Date: September 2011Title: Scholars Who Became Practitioners
Authors: Nora Lustig
Date: August 2011Title: Incentive Proliferation? Making Sense of a New Wave of Development Programs
Authors: William Savedoff
Date: August 2011Title: Economics and Emigration: Trillion-dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: August 2011Title: The Health Systems Funding Platform: Resolving Tensions between the Aid and Development Effectiveness Agendas
Authors: Amanda Glassman, William Savedoff
Date: July 2011Title: Oil for Uganda – or Ugandans? Can Cash Transfers Prevent the Resource Curse?
Authors: Alan Gelb, Stephanie Majerowicz
Date: July 2011Title: Fair Shares: Crediting Poor Countries for Carbon Mitigation
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: July 2011Title: Constraints to Domestic Enterprise Financing in Post-Conflict Liberia
Authors: John Gorlorwulu
Date: July 2011Title: New SME Financial Access Initiatives: Private Foundations' Path to Donor Partnerships
Authors: Ben Leo
Date: June 2011Title: Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery: A Case Study on U.S. Policy Options for Post-Earthquake Haiti
Authors: Royce Bernstein Murray, Sarah Petrin Williamson
Date: June 2011Title: Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories
Authors: Cael Warren, Raymond Robertson
Date: June 2011Title: GAVI's Future: Steps to Build Strategic Leadership, Financial Sustainability, and Better Partnerships
Authors: Lisa Carty, Amanda Glassman, J. Stephen Morrison, Margaret Reeves
Date: June 2011Title: Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfers in Developing and Resource-Rich Countries
Authors: Alan Gelb, Caroline Decker
Date: June 2011Title: Better Factories Cambodia: An Instrument for Improving Industrial Relations in a Transnational Context
Authors: Arianna Rossi, Raymond Robertson
Date: June 2011Title: The Future of Development Finance
Authors: Nemat Shafik
Date: May 2011Title: The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge and Global Health
Authors: Ursula Casabonne, Charles Kenny
Date: May 2011Title: Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, Darryl McLeod
Date: May 2011Title: How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?
Authors: Dean Karlan, John A. List
Date: April 2011Title: Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Benjamin Leo
Date: April 2011Title: TrAid+ Channeling Development Assistance to Results
Authors: Alex Ergo, Ingo Puhl
Date: March 2011Title: The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Francis Fukuyama
Date: March 2011Title: IDA at 65: Heading Toward Retirement or a Fragile Lease on Life?
Authors: Todd Moss, Benjamin Leo
Date: March 2011Title: Failed States, Vicious Cycles, and a Proposal
Authors: Raghuram G. Rajan
Date: March 2011Title: A Green Venture Fund to Finance Clean Technology for Developing Countries
Authors: Darius Nassiry, David Wheeler
Date: March 2011Title: West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007– 2008
Authors: Jenny Aker, Steven Block, Vijaya Ramachandran, Peter Timmer
Date: February 2011Title: Getting Real on Trade with Pakistan: Duty-Free Market Access as Development Policy
Authors: Kimberly Ann Elliott
Date: February 2011Title: Where Have All the Donors Gone? Scarce Donor Funding for Non-Communicable Diseases
Authors: Rachel Nugent, Andrea B. Feigl
Date: January 2011Title: Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Adaptation Assistance
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: January 2011Title: Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers
Authors: Todd Moss
Date: January 2011Title: Food Crisis, Household Welfare, and HIV/AIDS Treatment: Evidence from Mozambique
Authors: Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga, Mead Over, Julia Vaillant
Date: January 2011Title: Antiretroviral Therapy Awareness and Risky Sexual Behaviors: Evidence from Mozambique
Authors: Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga, Mead Over
Date: January 2011Title: Sudan Debt Dynamics: Status Quo, Southern Secession, Debt Division, and Oil—A Financial Framework for the Future
Authors: Benjamin Leo
Date: December 2010Title: Not Just Aid: How Making Government Work Can Transform Africa
Authors: Tony Blair
Date: December 2010Title: Learning about Schools in Development
Authors: Charles Kenny
Date: December 2010Title: Global Prospects for Utility-Scale Solar Power: Toward Spatially Explicit Modeling of Renewable Energy Systems
Authors: Kevin Ummel
Date: December 2010Title: Confronting the American Divide on Carbon Emissions Regulation
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: December 2010Title: Capability Traps? The Mechanisms of Persistent Implementation Failure
Authors: Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, Matt Andrews
Date: December 2010Title: The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries
Authors: David Wheeler, Dan Hammer
Date: November 2010Title: Giving Money Away? The Politics of Direct Distribution in Resource Rich States
Authors: Alexandra Gillies
Date: November 2010Title: China in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Authors: Benedicte Vibe Christensen
Date: November 2010Title: When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages
Authors: Michael Clemens, Gabriel Demombynes
Date: October 2010Title: The Legacy of the Jubilee Debt Relief Movement: Agreements, Lessons, and Remaining Challenges
Authors: Ben Leo
Date: October 2010Title: The Arc of the Jubilee
Authors: David Roodman
Date: October 2010Title: How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States? A Proposal for IDA
Authors: Alan Gelb
Date: October 2010Title: Can Donors Be Flexible within Restrictive Budget Systems? Options for Innovative Financing Mechanisms
Authors: Benjamin Leo
Date: October 2010Title: Austerity and the IMF
Authors: Kenneth Rogoff
Date: October 2010Title: Aid for Trade: Supporting Trade Preference Reform
Authors: Susan Prowse
Date: September 2010Title: Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index
Authors: Benjamin Lee, Julia Barmeier
Date: August 2010Title: Twenty Concrete Steps to Improve the United States' Commitment to Development
Authors: Cindy Prieto, David Roodman
Date: July 2010Title: The End of ODA (II): The Birth of Hypercollective Action
Authors: Jean-Michel Severino, Olivier Ray
Date: July 2010Title: Concentrating Solar Power in China and India: A Spatial Analysis of Technical Potential and the Cost of Deployment
Authors: Kevin Ummel
Date: July 2010Title: Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development
Authors: Joel E. Cohen
Date: July 2010Title: The Roots of Global Wage Gaps: Evidence from Randomized Processing of U.S. Visas
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: June 2010Title: Pulling Agricultural Innovation and the Market Together
Authors: Kimberly Elliott
Date: June 2010Title: Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa
Authors: Jenny C. Aker, Isaac M. Mbiti
Date: June 2010Title: Leveraging World Bank Resources for the Poorest: IDA Blended Financing Facility Proposal
Authors: Benjamin Leo
Date: June 2010Title: Inside the World Bank's Black Box Allocation System: How Well Does IDA Allocate Resources to the Neediest and Most Vulnerable Countries?
Authors: Ben Leo
Date: June 2010Title: Bridging the Gap: Better, Faster, and Cheaper Clinical Trials for Health Products for Neglected Diseases
Authors: Thomas Bollyky
Date: June 2010Title: The Washington Consensus: Assessing a Damaged Brand
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Augusto de la Torre, Felipe Valencia Caicedo
Date: May 2010Title: The U.S. Aid "Surge" to Pakistan: Repeating a Failed Experiment? Lessons for U.S. Policymakers from the World Bank's Social-Sector Lending in the 1990s
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Molly Kinder
Date: May 2010Title: Open Markets for the Poorest Countries: Trade Preferences That Work
Authors: Kimberly Ann Elliott
Date: April 2010Title: How to Pay "Cash-on-Delivery" for HIV Infections Averted: Two Measurement Approaches and Ten Payout Functions
Authors: Timothy B. Hallett, Mead Over
Date: April 2010Title: Financing Food Assistance: Options for the World Food Programme to Save Lives and Dollars
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran, Benjamin Leo, Owen McCarthy
Date: April 2010Title: Are Funding Decisions Based on Performance?
Authors: Nandini Oomman, Steven Rosenzweig, Michael Bernstein
Date: April 2010Title: Are Borders Barriers? The Impact of International and Internal Ethnic Borders on Agricultural Markets in West Africa
Authors: Jenny C. Aker, Michael W. Klein, Stephen A. O'Connell, Muzhe Yang
Date: April 2010Title: The Costs and Benefits of Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Poor Countries: Who and What Matters
Authors: Antoine Bouët, David Laborde Debucquet, Elisa Dienesch, Kimberly Elliott
Date: March 2010Title: The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: March 2010Title: Technologies, Rules, and Progress: The Case for Charter Cities
Authors: Paul Romer
Date: March 2010Title: Less Smoke, More Mirrors: Where India Really Stands on Solar Power and Other Renewables
Authors: David Wheelter, Saurabh Shome
Date: March 2010Title: Financial Integration and Foreign Banks in Latin America: Do They Amplify External Financial Shocks?
Authors: Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Date: February 2010Title: The International Financial Crisis: Eight Lessons for and from Latin America
Authors: Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Date: January 2010Title: The Economics of Adaptation to Extreme Weather Events in Developing Countries
Authors: Brian Blankespoor, Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, David Wheeler
Date: January 2010Title: Peace-Building without External Assistance: Lessons from Somaliland
Authors: Nicholas Eubank
Date: January 2010Title: From Predation to Production Post-conflict
Authors: Satish Chand
Date: January 2010Title: Bases, Bullets, and Ballots: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia - Working Paper 197
Authors: Oeindrila Dube, Suresh Naidu
Date: January 2010Title: A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: January 2010Title: It's One Climate Policy World Out There--Almost - Working Paper 195
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Jan von der Goltz
Date: December 2009Title: Development Assistance, Institution Building, and Social Cohesion after Civil War: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Liberia - Working Paper 194
Authors: James Fearon, Macartan Humphreys, Jeremy M. Weinstein
Date: December 2009Title: Aid, Dutch Disease, and Manufacturing Growth - Working Paper 196
Authors: Raghuram G. Rajan, Arvind Subramanian
Date: December 2009Title: Will World Bank and IMF Lending Lead to HIPC IV? Debt Deja-Vu All Over Again - Working Paper 193
Authors: Benjamin Leo
Date: November 2009Title: Reconciling Climate Change and Trade Policy - Working Paper 189
Authors: Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Jianwu He
Date: November 2009Title: Moving Mugabe's Mountain: Zimbabwe's Path to Arrears Clearance and Debt Relief - Working Paper 190
Authors: Benjamin Leo, Todd Moss
Date: November 2009Title: Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates - Working Paper 191
Authors: Arvind Subramanian
Date: November 2009Title: FORMA: Forest Monitoring for Action--Rapid Identification of Pan-tropical Deforestation Using Moderate-Resolution Remotely Sensed Data - Working Paper 192
Authors: Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, David Wheeler
Date: November 2009Title: Energy Needs and Efficiency, Not Emissions: Re-framing the Climate Change Narrative - Working Paper 187
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Arvind Subramanian
Date: November 2009Title: Can Global De-Carbonization Inhibit Developing-Country Industrialization? - Working Paper 188
Authors: Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Jianwu He
Date: November 2009Title: Saving Ghana from Its Oil: The Case for Direct Cash Distribution - Working Paper 186
Authors: Todd Moss, Lauren Young
Date: October 2009Title: Opening Markets for Poor Countries: Are We There Yet? - Working Paper 184
Authors: Kimberly Ann Elliott
Date: October 2009Title: Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid - Working Paper 185
Authors: Owen Barder
Date: October 2009Title: Learning to Share: Explaining the Conditions under Which States Delegate Governance - Working Paper 181
Authors: Aila M. Matanock
Date: September 2009Title: Countering Drug Resistance in the Developing World: An Assessment of Incentives across the Value Chain and Recommendations for Policy Interventions - Working Paper 183
Authors: Prashant Yadav
Date: September 2009Title: Climate Change and the Future Impacts of Storm-Surge Disasters in Developing Countries
Authors: Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray, David Wheeler
Date: September 2009Title: The Illusion of Equality: The Educational Consequences of Blinding Weak States, For Example
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Date: August 2009Title: Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development - Working Paper 180
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: August 2009Title: Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Antiretrovirals - Working Paper 179
Authors: Ethan Kapstein, Josh Busby
Date: August 2009Title: Making Markets for Merit Goods: The Political Economy of Antiretrovirals
Authors: Ethan B. Kapstein, Josh Busby
Date: August 2009Title: Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Authors: Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
Date: August 2009Title: Climate Change Negotiating Positions of Major Developing Country Emitters
Authors: Jan von der Goltz
Date: August 2009Title: To Formalize or Not to Formalize? Comparisons of Microenterprise Data from Southern and East Africa
Authors: Alan Gelb, Taye Mengistae, Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah
Date: July 2009Title: The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence
Authors: David Roodman, Jonathan Morduch
Date: June 2009Title: The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration
Authors: John Gibson, David McKenzie
Date: May 2009Title: Rice Price Formation in the Short Run and the Long Run
Authors: C. Peter Timmer
Date: May 2009Title: Blunt Instruments: On Establishing the Causes of Economic Growth
Authors: Samuel Bazzi, Michael Clemens
Date: May 2009Title: What Is Poverty Reduction?
Authors: Owen Barder
Date: April 2009Title: Heckle and Chide: Results of a Randomized Road Safety Intervention in Kenya
Authors: James Habyarimana, William Jack
Date: April 2009Title: Estimating Fully Observed Recursive Mixed-Process Models with cmp
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Date: April 2009Title: The End of ODA: Death and Rebirth of a Global Public Policy
Authors: Jean-Michel Severino, Olivier Ray
Date: March 2009Title: Supermarkets, Modern Supply Chains, and the Changing Food Policy Agenda
Authors: Peter Timmer
Date: March 2009Title: Schooling Inequality, Crises, and Financial Liberalization in Latin America
Authors: Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall, Gunilla Pettersson
Date: March 2009Title: Rice Crisis Forensics: How Asian Governments Carelessly Set the World Rice Market on Fire
Authors: Tom Slayton
Date: March 2009Title: Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
Authors: Nora Lustig
Date: March 2009Title: Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
Authors: Christopher Blattman, Edward Miguel
Date: March 2009Title: AIDS Treatment in South Asia: Equity and Efficiency Arguments for Shouldering the Fiscal Burden When Prevalence Rates Are Low
Authors: Mead Over
Date: February 2009Title: A Fresh Look at Global Governance: Exploring Objective Criteria for Representation
Authors: Enrique Rueda-Sabater, Vijaya Ramachandran, Robin Kraft
Date: February 2009Title: Pricing and Access: Lessons from Randomized Evaluations in Education and Health
Authors: Alaka Holla, Michael Kremer
Date: January 2009Title: Do Regulatory Reforms Stimulate Investment and Growth? Evidence from the Doing Business Data
Authors: Benjamin P. Eifert
Date: January 2009Title: Rainfall Shocks, Markets, and Food Crises: Evidence from the Sahel
Authors: Jenny C. Aker
Date: December 2008Title: Desert Power: The Economics of Solar Thermal Electricity for Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East
Authors: Kevin Ummel, David Wheeler
Date: December 2008Title: Thought for Food: The Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices
Authors: Nora Lustig
Date: November 2008Title: Multilateralism Beyond Doha
Authors: Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
Date: October 2008Title: Does Digital Divide or Provide? The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Niger
Authors: Jenny Aker
Date: October 2008Title: Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment
Authors: Satish Chand, Michael Clemens
Date: September 2008Title: Biofuels and the Food Price Crisis: A Survey of the Issues - Working Paper 151
Authors: Kimberly Elliott
Date: August 2008Title: Why Warner-Lieberman Failed and How to Get America's Working Families behind the Next Cap-and-Trade Bill -- Working Paper 149
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: July 2008Title: The Structural Transformation as a Pathway out of Poverty: Analytics, Empirics and Politics - Working Paper 150
Authors: Selvin Akkus, Peter Timmer
Date: July 2008Title: The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the U.S. Border - Working Paper 148
Authors: Michael Clemens, Claudio E. Montenegro, Lant Pritchett
Date: July 2008Title: Measuring Progress with Tests of Learning: Pros and Cons for "Cash on Delivery Aid" in Education - Working Paper 147
Authors: Marlaine Lockheed
Date: June 2008Title: Intellectual Property and Public Health: An Overview of the Debate with a Focus on U.S. Policy - Working Paper 146
Authors: Carsten Fink
Date: June 2008Title: Prevention Failure: The Ballooning Entitlement Burden of U.S. Global AIDS Treatment Spending and What to Do About It - Working Paper 144
Authors: Mead Over
Date: May 2008Title: Calculating CARMA: Global Estimation of CO2 Emissions from the Power Sector - Working Paper 145
Authors: Kevin Ummel, David Wheeler
Date: May 2008Title: Income Per Natural: Measuring Development for People rather than Places - Working Paper 143
Authors: Michael Clemens, Lant Pritchett
Date: March 2008Title: How Soon Can Donors Exit From Post-Conflict States? - Working Paper 141
Authors: Satish Chand, Ruth Coffman
Date: February 2008Title: Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New Role for the World Trade Organization - Working Paper 142
Authors: Aaditya Mattoo, Arvind Subramanian
Date: February 2008Title: Crossroads at Mmamabula: Will the World Bank Choose the Clean Energy Path? - Working Paper 140
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: February 2008Title: Beyond the ABCs: Higher Education and Developing Countries - Working Paper 139
Authors: Megan Crowley, Devesh Kapur
Date: February 2008Title: Through the Looking-Glass, and What OLS Found There: On Growth, Foreign Aid, and Reverse Causality - Working Paper 137
Authors: David Roodman
Date: January 2008Title: Putting the Power of Transparency in Context: Information's Role in Reducing Corruption in Uganda's Education Sector - Working Paper 136
Authors: Paul Hubbard
Date: December 2007Title: The Pentagon and Global Development: Making Sense of the DoD's Expanding Role - Working Paper 131
Authors: Kaysie Brown, Stewart Patrick
Date: November 2007Title: Reviving Economic Growth in Liberia - Working Paper 133
Authors: Steve Radelet
Date: November 2007Title: Information Disclosure and Climate: The Thinking Behind CARMA - Working Paper 132
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: November 2007Title: Reflections on the Macro Foundations of the Middle Class in the Developing World - Working Paper 130
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: October 2007Title: How Do the BRICs Stack Up? Adding Brazil, Russia, India, and China to the Environment Component of the Commitment to Development Index - Working Paper 128
Authors: David Roodman
Date: October 2007Title: Generation of Political Priority for Global Health Initiatives: A Framework and Case Study of Maternal Mortality - Working Paper 129
Authors: Jeremy Shiffman, Stephanie Smith
Date: October 2007Title: Does Influence-Peddling Impact Industrial Competition? Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Africa - Working Paper 127
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah, Gaiv Tata
Date: October 2007Title: Aiding Transparency: What We Can Learn About China Exim Bank's Concessional Loans - Working Paper 126
Authors: Paul Hubbard
Date: September 2007Title: A Short Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments
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Date: August 2007Title: The Provision of Banking Services in Latin America: Obstacles and Recommendations - Working Paper 124
Authors: Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Date: June 2007Title: The Provision of Banking Services in Latin America: Obstacles and Recommendations
Authors: Liliana Rojas-Suarez
Date: June 2007Title: It's One World Out There: The Global Consensus on Selecting the World Bank's Next President - Working Paper 123
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: June 2007Title: It's One World Out There: The Global Consensus on Selecting the World Bank's Next President
Authors: David Wheeler
Date: June 2007Title: The World Bank: Toward a Global Club
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: May 2007Title: Generating Political Priority for Public Health Causes in Developing Countries: Implications From a Study on Maternal Mortality
Authors: Jeremy Shiffman
Date: May 2007Title: Following the Money: Toward Better Tracking of Global Health Resources
Date: May 2007Title: A Risky Business: Saving Money and Improving Global Health Through Better Demand Forecasts
Date: May 2007Title: What Have IMF Programs With Low-Income Countries Assumed About Aid Flows?
Authors: Ben Elberger, David Goldsbrough
Date: April 2007Title: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Six Years of Results from Supply-Side Programs in Haiti - Working Paper 121
Authors: Uder Antoine, Paul Auxila, Bernateau Desmangles, Rena Eichler
Date: April 2007Title: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Six Years of Results from Supply-Side Programs in Haiti
Authors: Marie Gaarder, Amanda Glassman, Jessica Todd
Date: April 2007Title: Performance-based Incentives for Health: Demand- and Supply-Side Incentives in the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social - Working Paper 119
Authors: Leslie Castro, Ferdinando Regalía
Date: April 2007Title: Performance-based Incentives for Health: Demand- and Supply-Side Incentives in the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social
Authors: Leslie Castro, Ferdinando Regalía
Date: April 2007Title: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean - Working Paper 120
Authors: Marie Gaarder, Amanda Glassman, Jessica Todd
Date: April 2007Title: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Authors: Marie Gaarder, Amanda Glassman, Jessica Todd
Date: April 2007Title: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: A Way to Improve Tuberculosis Detection and Treatment Completion? - Working Paper 122
Authors: Alexandra Beith, Rena Eichler, Diana Weil
Date: April 2007Title: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: A Way to Improve Tuberculosis Detection and Treatment Completion?
Authors: Alexandra Beith, Rena Eichler
Date: April 2007Title: Liberia's External Debt: Moving Towards Comprehensive Debt Relief
Authors: Steven Radelet
Date: April 2007Title: Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in School and What to do About It
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Date: April 2007Title: Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development - Working Paper 118
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: April 2007Title: Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: April 2007Title: Cost-Effective Prevention of Diarrheal Diseases: A Critical Review
Authors: Michael Kremer, Alex Peterson Zwane
Date: April 2007Title: Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis: An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia
Authors: Neil McCulloch, Peter Timmer
Date: March 2007Title: Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration
Authors: Michael Clemens
Date: March 2007Title: Do No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions, and the Missing Middle in Africa
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: March 2007Title: Why Doesn't Africa Get More Equity Investment? Frontier Stock Markets, Firm Size and Asset Allocations of Global Emerging Market Funds
Authors: Todd Moss, Vijaya Ramachandran, Scott Standley
Date: February 2007Title: Why Are There So Few Black-Owned Firms in Africa? Preliminary Results from Enterprise Survey Data
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah
Date: January 2007Title: Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
Authors: Dean Karlan, Martin Valdivia
Date: January 2007Title: Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Report
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Date: January 2007Title: Group Versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines
Authors: Xavier Giné, Dean Karlan
Date: January 2007Title: Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Authors: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin
Date: January 2007Title: Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Date: January 2007Title: Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microcredit
Authors: Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman
Date: January 2007Title: AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
Authors: Markus Goldstein, Harsha Thirumurthy, Joshua Graff Zivin
Date: January 2007Title: Payments for Progress: A Hands-Off Approach to Foreign Aid
Authors: Owen Barder, Nancy Birdsall
Date: December 2006Title: How to Do xtabond2: An Introduction to "Difference" and "System" GMM in Stata
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Date: December 2006Title: Microfinance as Business
Authors: Uzma Qureshi, David Roodman
Date: November 2006Title: An Index of Donor Performance
Authors: David Roodman
Date: November 2006Title: Artificial States
Authors: Alberto Alesina, William Easterly, Janina Matuszeski
Date: October 2006Title: Beyond the IMF
Authors: Devesh Kapur, Richard Webb
Date: September 2006Title: Social Cohesion, Institutions
Authors: William Easterly, Jozef Ritzen, Michael Woolcock
Date: August 2006Title: New data on African health professionals abroad
Authors: Michael A. Clemens, Gunilla Petterson
Date: August 2006Title: Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money
Authors: Kaysie Brown, Stewart Patrick
Date: August 2006Title: Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Working Paper and Spread Sheet
Authors: Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael R. Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine, Georg Weizsacker, Heidi Williams
Date: August 2006Title: A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education
Authors: Deon Filmer, Amer Hasan, Lant Pritchett
Date: August 2006Title: Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings
Authors: William Easterly
Date: July 2006Title: A Primer on Foreign Aid
Authors: Steven Radelet
Date: July 2006Title: A Policymakers' Guide to Dutch Disease
Authors: Owen Barder
Date: July 2006Title: Competitive Proliferation of Aid Projects: A Model
Authors: David Roodman
Date: June 2006Title: Will Debt Relief Make a Difference? Impact and Expectations of the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
Authors: Todd Moss
Date: May 2006Title: The Globalizers in Search of a Future: Four reasons why the IMF and World Bank must change, and four ways they can
Authors: Ngaire Woods
Date: April 2006Title: The U.S. External Deficit and the Developing Countries
Authors: William R. Cline
Date: March 2006Title: The U.S. External Deficit and the Developing Countries
Authors: William Cline
Date: March 2006Title: The Economics of Young Democracies: Policies and Performance
Authors: Nathan Converse, Ethan Kapstein
Date: March 2006Title: The Economics of Young Democracies: Policies and Performance
Authors: Nathan Converse, Ethan Kapstein
Date: March 2006Title: Privatization: A Summary Assessment
Authors: John Nellis
Date: March 2006Title: Privatization--A Summary Assessment
Authors: John Nellis
Date: March 2006Title: The Role of the IMF in Well-Performing Low-Income Countries
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Date: February 2006Title: The Role of the IMF in Well-Performing Low-Income Countries
Authors: Steven Radelet
Date: February 2006Title: The Costs and Benefits of Front-loading and Predictability of Immunization
Authors: Owen Barder, Ethan Yeh
Date: February 2006Title: The Costs and Benefits of Front-loading and Predictability of Immunization
Authors: Owen Barder, Ethan Yeh
Date: February 2006Title: Tax policies to promote private charitable giving in DAC countries
Authors: David Roodman, Scott Standley
Date: February 2006Title: Tax policies to promote private charitable giving in DAC countries
Authors: David Roodman, Scott Standley
Date: February 2006Title: Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: February 2006Title: Stormy Days on an Open Field: Asymmetries in the Global Economy
Authors: Nancy Birdsall
Date: February 2006Title: How Multinational Investors Evade Developed Country Laws
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Date: February 2006Title: How Multinational Investors Evade Developed Country Laws
Authors: Theodore Moran
Date: February 2006Title: Back to the Future for African Infrastructure? Why State-Ownership Is No More Promising the Second Time Around
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Date: February 2006Title: Back to the Future for African Infrastructure? Why State-Ownership is No More Promising the Second Time Around
Authors: John Nellis
Date: February 2006Title: Weak States and Global Threats: Assessing Evidence of Spillovers
Authors: Stewart Patrick
Date: January 2006Title: Governance and Corruption in Public Health Care Systems
Authors: Maureen Lewis
Date: January 2006Title: Governance and Corruption in Public Health Care Systems
Authors: Maureen Lewis
Date: January 2006Title: Does the Private Sector Care About AIDS?
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah, Ginger Turner
Date: January 2006Title: Does the Private Sector Care About AIDS?
Authors: Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah, Ginger Turner
Date: January 2006Title: An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Todd Moss, Gunilla Pettersson, Nicolas Van de Walle
Date: January 2006Title: Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity
Authors: David Roodman
Date: January 2006Title: Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity
Authors: David Roodman
Date: January 2006Title: A Stability and Social Investment Facility for High Debt Countries
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Kemal Dervis
Date: January 2006Title: A Stability and Social Investment Facility for High Debt Countries
Authors: Nancy Birdsall, Kemal Dervis
Date: January 2006