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Data Set for Working Paper 280: “Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia”
- Feb 8, 2012
David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta, and Brian Blankespoor
This data set includes the data and programs needed to replicate the analysis in Working Paper 280, Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia by David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta, and Brian Blankespoor.
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GHI Mid-Term Review and a Way Forward
- Jan 30, 2012
As the Global Health Initiative moves into its third year of implementation, Nandini Oomman and Rachel Silverman summarize the current status of this major development initiative, highlight the challenges for the GHI, and propose specific recommendations for a way forward.
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Is There Such a Thing As Middle Class Values? - Working Paper 286
- Jan 26, 2012
Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Jamele Rigolini, and Florencia Torche
In this working paper, the authors investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries.
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This brief provides a summary of the forthcoming second edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) Assessment sponsored
by the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development.
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This paper reflects on the global goal setting experience of the MDGs and what might be done differently if there is new round of MDGs after 2015.
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Former senior fellow Steven Radelet with an introduction by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Since 1995, 17 African countries have defied expectations and have launched a remarkable, if little-noticed, turnaround. Emerging Africa describes this revitalization and why it is likely to continue.
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Readers of David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog will immediately recognize his thorough, straightforward, and trenchant analysis of whether microfinance is the boon many think it is.
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This paper investigates the scale and scope of emerging donors and ways the international donor community could encourage their greater transparency and accountability.
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In this essay, Andrew Natsios gives a first-hand account of what he finds most hinders USAID—layers of bureaucracy that misguide and derail development work.
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After a decade of rapid economic growth, many developing countries have attained middle-income status, but poverty reduction in these countries has not kept pace with economic growth. Most of the world’s poor—up to a billion people—now live in these new middle-income countries. These...
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Laura E. Seay
In this working paper, Laura E. Seay traces the development of section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, examines the effects of the legislation, and recommends new courses of action to move forward.
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Using data from Kenya—a poor country with weak public institutions—the authors find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation.
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This analysis draws upon MCC reports and country indicator performance
to predict which countries will be made eligible to apply for FY2012
compact or threshold assistance. We offer a forecast of potential FY2012
eligible countries; it is not an official list of the countries that will...
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After a decade of rapid growth in average incomes, many countries have attained middle-income country (MIC) status, while poverty hasn’t fallen as much as one might expect. As a result, there are up to a billion poor people or a ‘new bottom billion’ living not in the world’s poorest...
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With the Doha Round dead if not buried, the United States has no excuse for not acting on its rhetoric and providing improved market access for all of the world’s least developed countries.
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The Broadband Commission for Digital Development is an ITU (UN International Telecommunications Union) and UNESCO–backed body set up to advocate for greater broadband access worldwide. The commission’s Declaration of Broadband Inclusion for All and other reports call for governments
to support...
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Previous studies suggest that abolishing user fees would increase enrollment in public schools, but the results of this research show that the opposite is true in Kenya.
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The Commitment to Development Index ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5.5 billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid volumes, the CDI quantifies a range of rich-country policies that affect...
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David Roodman he offers practical recommendations to those involved
in providing microfinance services, including donors, social investors,
and microfinance leaders.
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David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch
CGD fellow David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch a landmark evaluation of the impact of microcredit on poor households in Bangladesh. They replicate the study's statistical analysis and put an end to the controversy surrounding it by showing that it fails to rule out reverse causation. A positive...
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Construction is a vital part of development, but it often falls prey to poor governance and corruption. Making the details of construction contracts public is one proven way to help citizens get what they are paying for.
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This report summarizes recent trends in large-scale tropical forest clearing identified by FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action). FORMA produces indicators that track monthly changes in the number of 1-sq.-km. tropical forest parcels that have experienced clearing with high probability. This report...
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This set includes data and Stata files to replicate the results in CGD Working Paper 279, “The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country”
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Commitment to Development Index 2011
- Nov 1, 2011
The Commitment to Development Index ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5.5 billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid volumes, the CDI quantifies a range of rich-country policies that affect...
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Regional Development Banks (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
- Sep 23, 2011
This brief on the Regional Development Banks is one of a suite of policy briefs that provides basic background information and practical analysis of the financial and governance issues facing the international financial institutions.
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International Finance Corporation (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
- Sep 23, 2011
This brief on the International Finance Corporation is one of a suite of policy briefs that provides basic background information and practical analysis of the financial and governance issues facing the international financial institutions.
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International Monetary Fund (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
- Sep 23, 2011
This brief on the IMF is one of a suite of policy briefs that provides basic background information and practical analysis of the financial and governance issues facing the international financial institutions.
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The ABCs of the General Capital Increase (ABCs of IFIs Brief)
- Sep 23, 2011
This brief on the General Capital Increase is one of a suite of policy briefs that provides basic background information and practical analysis of the financial and governance issues facing the international financial institutions.
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World Bank (ABCs of the IFIs Brief)
- Sep 23, 2011
This brief on the World Bank is one of a suite of policy briefs that provides basic background information and practical analysis of the financial and governance issues facing the international financial institutions.
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Affordable Interventions to Prevent Noncommunicable Diseases Worldwide
- Sep 8, 2011
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and mental illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. The good news is that much of the NCD burden can be prevented through interventions that are affordable in most countries....
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Focus UNFPA: Four Recommendations for Action (brief)
- Apr 11, 2011
The Center for Global Development Working Group on UNFPA’s Leadership
Transition urges the UNFPA to sharpen its focus in pursuing the Programme of
Action developed at the 1994 International Conference on Population and
Development.
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Is There Such a Thing As Middle Class Values? - Working Paper 286
- Jan 26, 2012
Luis F. Lopez-Calva, Jamele Rigolini, and Florencia Torche
In this working paper, the authors investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American countries.
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A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations - Working Paper 277
- Dec 10, 2011
Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha Agenda is an aberration because it does not reflect one of the biggest shifts in the international economic and...
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GHI Mid-Term Review and a Way Forward
- Jan 30, 2012
As the Global Health Initiative moves into its third year of implementation, Nandini Oomman and Rachel Silverman summarize the current status of this major development initiative, highlight the challenges for the GHI, and propose specific recommendations for a way forward.
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Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan
- Jun 1, 2011
In a new CGD report, U.S. and Pakistani development experts urge a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a fledgling democratic government, burgeoning youth population, and shadowy intelligence services are...
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Focus UNFPA: Four Recommendations for Action
- Apr 11, 2011
The CGD Working Group on UNFPA’s Leadership Transition
The time is right to reinvigorate UNFPA. Seventeen years after the groundbreaking ICPD meeting, UNFPA needs to make itself the lead agency for population, sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights in the UN system, as well as be more visible externally.
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Zeroing In: AIDS Donors and Africa’s Health Workforce
- Aug 26, 2010
This report focuses on the workforce strengthening strategies of three of the major HIV/AIDS donors—the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), and the World Bank’s Africa Multi-country HIV/AIDS...
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The Race Against Drug Resistance
- Jun 14, 2010
In an increasingly interconnected world, drug resistance does not stop at a patient’s bedside—it threatens global health. The conclusions of the Center for Global Development’s Drug Resistance Working Group make clear the need for urgent action to address this growing crisis.
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HIV/AIDS Monitor: Are Funding Decisions Based on Performance?
- Apr 6, 2010
This report examines the use of performance-based funding (PBF) among the big three funders of HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries: the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank’s Multi-Country...
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Partnerships with the Private Sector in Health
- Dec 4, 2009
Private Sector Advisory Facility Working Group
The Private Sector Advisory Facility Working Group recommends a practical way for donors and technical agencies to support successful public-private interactions to strenghthen health systems in developing countries.
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Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment
- Aug 15, 2011
Five million people in poor countries are receiving AIDS treatment, but international AIDS policy is still in crisis. This book shows how to reach an “AIDS transition,” which would keep AIDS deaths down by sustaining treatment while pushing new infections even lower, so that the total number of...
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Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way
- Sep 16, 2010
Former senior fellow Steven Radelet with an introduction by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Since 1995, 17 African countries have defied expectations and have launched a remarkable, if little-noticed, turnaround. Emerging Africa describes this revitalization and why it is likely to continue.
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Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid
- Mar 16, 2010
Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what works.
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Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls
- Jun 15, 2009
Rena Eichler, Ruth Levine, and the Performance-Based Incentives Working Group
Donor spending on global health has surged, yet for many poor people in developing countries even basic prevention and treatment remain elusive. CGD’s newest book, Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls, shows how modest payments in cash or kind can get more health from...
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Africa's Private Sector: What's Wrong with the Business Environment and What to Do About It
- Mar 23, 2009
Vijaya Ramachandran, Alan Gelb, and Manju Kedia Shah
What's keeping private business from flourishing in Africa? On the basis of unique enterprise surveys, Vijaya Ramachandran and her co-authors identify poor roads and unreliable power as major physical challenges; ethnic segmentation and the economic predominance ethnic minorities further constrain...
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Reinventing Foreign Aid
- Jul 31, 2008
edited by William Easterly foreword by Nancy Birdsall
In Reinventing Foreign Aid, CGD non-resident fellow William Easterly has gathered top scholars in the field to discuss how to improve foreign aid. These authors, Easterly points out, are not claiming that their ideas will (to invoke a current slogan) Make Poverty History. Rather, they take on...
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George Bush's Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos?
- May 16, 2008
Carol Lancaster
In this new CGD book, visiting fellow Carol Lancaster analyzes the dramatic changes in U.S. foreign aid during the Bush administration, including the increased use of aid to address failed states and to fight the global war on terror, the establishment of an entirely new aid agency—the Millennium...
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Exclusion, Gender and Education: Case Studies from the Developing World
- Sep 24, 2007
Maureen Lewis & Marlaine Lockheed, eds.
Girls have achieved remarkable increases in primary schooling over the past decade, yet millions are still not in school. In Inexcusable Absence, CGD visiting fellows Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed reported the startling new finding that nearly three-quarters of out-of-school girls belong to...
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Global Warming and Agriculture: Impact Estimates by Country
- Sep 12, 2007
William R. Cline
While the threat of global warming is increasingly accepted, little attention has been paid to the likely impact at the country level, especially in the developing world. In this new book, Bill Cline, a joint senior fellow at CGD and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, provides...
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African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors
- Mar 5, 2007
Todd Moss
Bill Easterly calls Moss' new introduction to Africa "compulsively readable and accessible" and "a masterpiece of clear thinking." Each chapter is organized around three fundamental questions: Where are we now? How did we get to this point? What are the current debates? CGD's package of materials...
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Delivering on Doha: Farm Trade and the Poor
- Dec 5, 2006
Kimberly Ann Elliott
Agricultural market liberalization is the linchpin for a successful conclusion to the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations because these are the most protected markets remaining in most rich countries. But the implications for developing countries, especially the poorest, are...
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Where Is the Virtue in the Middle Class?
- Nov 11, 2011
It is widely agreed that the middle class is vital to progress because of its many virtues, but defining middle class in any meaningful way is difficult. And survey evidence suggests the middle class is not culturally unique, particularly socially progressive, or entrepreneurial.
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Incentive Proliferation? Making Sense of a New Wave of Development Programs
- Aug 31, 2011
A new wave of development programs that explicitly use incentives to achieve their aims is under way.They are part of a trend, accelerating in recent years, to disburse development assistance against specific and measurable outputs or outcomes. With a proliferation of new ideas under names such as...
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Can Aid Work? Written Testimony Submitted to the House of Lords
- Jul 13, 2011
The main body of this short essay comprises written testimony that Owen Barder submitted to Britain’s House of Lords in response to a question about the effectiveness of foreign aid. In a brief introduction Barder draws upon his recent experience living in Ethiopia for three years to shed light...
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Bentham from the Crypt Once More: Politicians in Pursuit of Happiness
- Jun 14, 2011
Subjective-well-being (SWB) polls help to illustrate some
of the absurdities of taking income per capita as our measure of the ultimate good. Polls do not capture a be-all and end-all measure of the good. Considerable caution is required in the use of such polls for policymaking.
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The Peace Corps in a Smaller World: A New Model for the Next 50 Years
- Apr 4, 2011
Charles Kenny takes a look at the Peace Corps, fifty years after its founding. Demand from developing countries for volunteers outstrips the Peace Corps’ capacity to respond. Nonetheless, he argues, the agency operates on a model designed for a very different world, and an evolutionary change in...
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Solow’s Return: Inventions, Ideas, and the Quality of Life
- Feb 27, 2011
In his latest essay, Charles Kenny seeks to revive Solow's model of exogenous growth; growth driven by the global diffusion of new technologies and ideas. He suggests that when it comes to quality of life improvements, institutions may be less important than exogenous factors, like new vaccines,...
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Getting Better in Pictures
- Feb 25, 2011
Charles Kenny attempts to dispel development pessimists' fears in this essay summarizing his latest book Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding - And How We can Improve the World Even More (Basic Books). According to Charles, better health, education, greater access to civil and...
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Shared Goals: Measuring Overall Development Progress in Pakistan
- Jan 14, 2011
A new focus on measuring development results would have far-reaching benefits for U.S. development
strategy, for U.S. public diplomacy efforts, and for the strength of Pakistan’s democratic institutions.
In this essay, Nancy Birdsall and Wren Elhai suggest five possible indicators that...
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The Arc of the Jubilee
- Oct 26, 2010
The Jubilee 2000 movement, which called for the cancellation of the foreign debts of the poorest nations, became one of the most successful international, nongovernmental movements in history. David Roodman provides thumbnail assessments of Jubilee 2000 from several perspectives, deemphasizing...
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