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CGD NOTES
May 27, 2020
The economic innovation agenda in pandemic response should be rooted in what we know about human behavior, and getting sustained scale in important mitigation solutions will require creativity. Behavior change initiatives such as handwashing, encouraging facemasks, and avoiding mass gatherings will ...
May
28
2020
9:30—11:00 AM ET
May 19, 2020
Many are focused on the response of governments to the pandemic and its economic impact, and the scale of support needed from the IMF and development banks, both multilateral and bilateral. But the private sector must lead as well, not just in the recovery phase but also in crisis response. Its capa...
Working Groups
September 15, 2016
CGD and IRC are convening a joint study group to explore what a sound partnership framework between host governments and development and humanitarian actors might look like in protracted displacement scenarios. This effort is guided by a vision of displaced people having meaningful opportunities tha...
Nov
6
2014
12:00—1:30 PM
October 29, 2014
Education programs in rural areas of developing countries are often implemented through local agents, such as community teachers. With this knowledge, Jenny Aker and co-author Christopher Ksoll tested mobile phone monitoring systems to see if they could improve learning outcomes as part of an adult ...
Mar
15
2012
4:00—5:30 PM
March 02, 2012
The Center for Global Development presents
Fostering Innovation Success: Road Safety in Kenya
Thursday, March 15, 2012
4:00pm–5:30pm
Featuring
Michael Kremer
Scientific Director, Development Innovation Ventures
U.S. Agency for International Development
Presenting the Road Safety Camp...
Apr
23
2010
12:00—1:30 PM
April 16, 2010
Abstract: We investigate one of the world's most pernicious forms of exploitation: child soldiering. Most theories can be captured by a principal-agent model that incorporates punishments, indoctrination, and
age-varying productivity. For rebel leaders, we show it is almost always optimal to coerce...
CGD in the News
May 04, 2009
The New York Times' Freakanomics blog cites CGD visiting fellow James Habyarimana's paper on traffic safety, Heckle and Chide: Results of a Randomized Road Safety Intervention in Kenya.
From the article:
"It’s interesting how we hear all the time about malaria and mosquito nets (it was even World ...
May
12
2009
12:00—1:30 PM
April 30, 2009
Abstract: In economies with weak enforcement of traffic regulations, drivers who adopt excessively risky behavior impose externalities on other vehicles, and on their own passengers. In light of the difficulties of correcting inter-vehicle externalities associated with weak third-party enforcement, ...
WORKING PAPERS
April 13, 2009
This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at improving road safety in Kenya, in which long-distance minibus passengers were encouraged to speak up and admonish their driver when they felt their safety was being compromised. Evocative messages designed to empower passengers were placed in a random s...
