Innovation

CGD’s work in innovation for development investigates how to create incentives to catalyze technology creation, testing, and adoption. Research encompasses many fields including better management of cash transfers, social marketing, intellectual property rights, research institutions, prizes, and advance market commitments. A central role for monitoring and evaluation also helps to address the common mistake of financing the wrong technology, or advocating for its use in areas and with people where it just will not work. Senior fellow Charles Kenny heads a major portion of CGD’s innovation research.

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FCPR–Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics - Working Paper 294 - May 1, 2012

This paper introduces and illustrates fCPR (Forest Conservation Performance Rating), a system of color-coded ratings for tropical forest conservation performance that can be implemented for local areas, countries, regions, and the entire pan-tropics.
Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendation of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development - Dec 8, 2011

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...
Dial "A" for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269 - Sep 29, 2011

Agriculture can serve as an important engine for economic growth in developing countries, yet yields in these countries have lagged far behind those in developed countries for decades. One potential mechanism for increasing yields is the use of improved agricultural technologies, such as...
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,...

FCPR–Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics - Working Paper 294 - May 1, 2012

This paper introduces and illustrates fCPR (Forest Conservation Performance Rating), a system of color-coded ratings for tropical forest conservation performance that can be implemented for local areas, countries, regions, and the entire pan-tropics.
Dial "A" for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269 - Sep 29, 2011

Agriculture can serve as an important engine for economic growth in developing countries, yet yields in these countries have lagged far behind those in developed countries for decades. One potential mechanism for increasing yields is the use of improved agricultural technologies, such as...
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,...
Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendation of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development - Dec 8, 2011

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...

FCPR–Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics - Working Paper 294 - May 1, 2012

This paper introduces and illustrates fCPR (Forest Conservation Performance Rating), a system of color-coded ratings for tropical forest conservation performance that can be implemented for local areas, countries, regions, and the entire pan-tropics.
Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendation of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development - Dec 8, 2011

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...
Dial "A" for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269 - Sep 29, 2011

Agriculture can serve as an important engine for economic growth in developing countries, yet yields in these countries have lagged far behind those in developed countries for decades. One potential mechanism for increasing yields is the use of improved agricultural technologies, such as...
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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