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Location, Location, Location
Can renewable energy be cheaper and more reliable, depending on where we put it? Kevin Ummel tackles the case of South Africa using (really, really) big data.
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Lend Me Your Workers
Proposed new W-visas for more temporary workers in the United States are good for all concerned. Lant Pritchett and Michael Clemens show why.
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Trade, Tax, and Transparency
Alex Cobham tells how illicit financial flows reached the top of the global economic agenda—and why this could be especially good news for developing countries.
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Miscounting Aid?
Owen Barder wants you to pay attention when a former chair of the OECD-DAC says rich countries are “getting away with murder” by miscounting aid.
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It’s All About MeE
Lant Pritchett and co-authors propose structured experiential learning as a way to build real-time evaluation loops into development projects.
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Good News in Obama’s Budget
President Obama’s FY2014 budget proposal would reform US food aid and smartly reallocate foreign assistance, using a scalpel not an ax.
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IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings
Nancy Birdsall and Todd Moss offer an overview of issues facing the World Bank and IMF in advance of this year’s spring meetings.
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Trouble Scaling Up
Justin Sandefur tells how a Kenyan education innovation proven successful in an RCT fell flat when rolled out nationwide.
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Counting Chickens
CGD research wins the Royal Economic Society Prize. Nancy Birdsall congratulates Michael Clemens, saying such world-class research is at the heart of CGD’s work.
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Who Should Lead the WTO?
Kim Elliott on the considerations and candidates for Pascal Lamy's successor as the next director-general of the World Trade Organization.
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