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The Future of UK Global Health Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
Peter Baker
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Lydia Regan
November 30, 2023
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Women's Underrepresentation in IFI Leadership
Eeshani Kandpal et al.
November 27, 2023
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EU-Africa Strategy: State of Play
Mikaela Gavas
November 24, 2023
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Australia-Tuvalu Climate and Migration Agreement Takeaways and Next Steps
Sam Huckstep
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Helen Dempster
December 04, 2023

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Does Poor Mean Cheap? A Comparative Look at Africa's Industrial Labor Costs - Working Paper 325
Alan Gelb et al.
May 13, 2013
Africa’s industrial progress has been disappointing. Part of the reason is that labor costs are higher than one might expect, given GDP per capita. Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer, and Vijaya Ramachandran distill the policy lessons.
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Performance Lessons from India’s Universal Identification Program
Alan Gelb
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Julia Clark
May 07, 2013
Biometric identification is spreading rapidly across the developing world, where it is helping to close the “identification gap” that separates poor countries from rich ones. India’s Unique Identification (UID) project offers important lessons for other countries.
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Implementing a Results-Based Approach to Strengthen IDA Support for Fragile States
Alan Gelb
March 08, 2013
This brief outlines how to implement a results-based approach in a way consistent with the World Bank’s recent experience with results-based disbursement, including its approval of the new Program for Results (PforR) instrument.
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Identification for Development: The Biometrics Revolution - Working Paper 315
Alan Gelb
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Julia Clark
January 08, 2013
This paper surveys 160 cases where biometric identification has been used for economic, political, and social purposes in developing countries. One primary conclusion is that identification should be considered as a component of development policy, rather than being seen as just a cost on a program-...
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Oil for Uganda – or Ugandans? Can Cash Transfers Prevent the Resource Curse? - Working Paper 261
Alan Gelb
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Stephanie Majerowicz
July 26, 2011
Uganda has sought to finance its development agenda with oil since discovering the resource in its Albertine Lakes Basin in 2009. This paper considers alternative methods for distributing the rents from oil that mitigate some of the governance risks associated with natural resource revenues.
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Fine-Tuning the MCC Selection Process and Indicators
Casey Dunning et al.
July 21, 2011
To inform the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s review of its country selection process, the MCA Monitor has conducted a parallel review and offers five key recommendations.
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Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfers in Developing and Resource-Rich Countries - Working Paper 253
Alan Gelb
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Caroline Decker
June 02, 2011
This paper surveys the arguments for and against cash-transfer programs in resource-rich states, discusses some of the new biometric identification technologies, and reaches preliminary conclusions about their potentially very large benefits for developing countries.

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