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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
CGD NOTES
Australia-Tuvalu Climate and Migration Agreement Takeaways and Next Steps
Sam Huckstep
and
Helen Dempster
December 04, 2023

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Biometric Elections in Poor Countries: Wasteful or a Worthwhile Investment? - Working Paper 435
Alan Gelb
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Anna Diofasi
August 15, 2016
Elections have emerged as a leading area for the application of biometric technology in developing countries, despite its high costs and uncertainty over its effectiveness. This paper finds that a reduction in the probability of post-election violence by only a few percentage points could offset the...
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Practical Considerations with Using Mobile Phone Survey Incentives: Experiences in Ghana and Tanzania - Working Paper 431
Robert Morello
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Benjamin Leo
July 13, 2016
As mobile phone surveys are gaining popularity among researchers and practitioners in international development, one primary challenge is improving survey response and completion rates. A common solution is to provide monetary compensation to respondents. This paper reports on our experience with us...
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Donors Funding Technology: 10 Recommendations
Charles Kenny
June 07, 2016
Funding the global public good of technology is a useful way for donors to leverage the impact of their aid. Different types of technologies appear to be important to development progress, and to spread, in different ways. ‘Lab coat technologies’ (inventions) spread easily and improve qu...
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How Does OPIC Balance Risks, Additionality, and Development? Proposals for Greater Transparency and Stoplight Filters
Ben Leo
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Todd Moss
April 26, 2016
As the U.S. government’s development finance institution, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) provides investors with financing, political risk insurance, and support for private equity investment funds when commercial funding cannot be obtained elsewhere. Its mandate is to mobi...
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Using Identification for Development: Some Guiding Principles
Alan Gelb
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Anna Diofasi
February 22, 2016
There is growing recognition of the importance of identification for sustainable development. Its role is recognized formally in target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for providing “legal identity for all, including through birth registration” by 2030. Identificat...
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Commitment to Development Index 2015
Petra Krylová
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Owen Barder
December 04, 2015
The Commitment to Development Index ranks 27 of the richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit poorer nations. Denmark takes first in 2015. The UK is tied for sixth while the United States is 21st. Japan takes last of 27.
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The Role of Identification in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Mariana Dahan
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Alan Gelb
July 01, 2015
The post-2015 development agenda is being shaped as we speak. The role of identification and its importance to development outcomes places it within the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda — specifically as one of the proposed SDG targets (#16.9), but also as a key enabler of the ef...

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