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POLICY PAPER
October 16, 2025
While most stablecoin activity now involves buying and selling other cryptocurrencies, this is starting to change, with increased stablecoin use for remittances and international settlements. The passage of the US GENIUS Act has accelerated their legitimacy and adoption, helping drive stablecoin tra...
POLICY PAPER
October 10, 2025
Country platforms are emerging as a mechanism for developing countries to align priorities, mobilize resources, and coordinate fragmented finance, but unrealistic expectations could set them up for failure. Based on 50+ interviews, this paper identifies key implementation challenges—ownership, seque...
POLICY PAPER
October 09, 2025
This paper begins by looking at private investment and bank credit to the private sector as a share of GDP in EMDEs in this century. It finds worrisome levels and trends, especially compared to private investment ratios for economies that achieved sustained high growth in the last century. As exogen...
POLICY PAPER
September 30, 2025
Healthcare supply chain financing is critical to health system performance but remains neglected—often fragmented, donor-dependent, and inefficient—leading to stockouts and high out-of-pocket costs. With aid declining, the paper develops a new framework linking health financing and supply chains to ...
POLICY PAPER
July 29, 2025
Despite decades of effort, nutrition remains poorly integrated into health systems and universal health coverage, often sidelined in both policy and financing. This paper explores how to better deliver nutrition-specific interventions by comparing vertical (targeted but fragmented), horizontal (syst...
POLICY PAPER
June 09, 2025
This paper examines the changing shape of Chinese investment in Africa, as it evolves from large scale infrastructure toward small scale manufacturing. It looks at the opportunity for the region in the context of a deepening manufacturing labor shortage in China; discusses barriers to that opportuni...
