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Facing the Pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance in Brazil
Claudio A. Mora-García et al.
May 18, 2023
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Zambia’s Experience Developing a Roadmap to Support Heath Benefit Package Reform
Warren Mukelabai Simangolwa et al.
June 01, 2023
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The World Bank Should Harness Evidence to Deliver Greater Impact
Eeshani Kandpal et al.
June 05, 2023
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Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice
Andrew Brudevold-Newman et al.
May 17, 2023

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Commitment to Development Index 2013
Owen Barder
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Petra Krylová
November 17, 2013
The Commitment to Development Index ranks 27 of the world’s richest countries on policies that affect the more than five billion people living in poorer nations.
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Privacy and Biometric ID Systems: An Approach Using Fair Information Practices for Developing Countries
Robert Gellman
August 01, 2013
Biometric identification systems that are in place or under consideration in many countries present significant privacy consequences principally relating to information privacy or data protection.  This paper discusses personal privacy in the context of the adoption of biometric identification ...
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Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive Health Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda - Working Paper 332
Julian Jamison et al.
July 11, 2013
We evaluate the impact of a health information intervention implemented through mobile phones, using a clustered randomized control trial augmented by qualitative interviews. The intervention aimed to improve sexual health knowledge and shift individuals towards safer sexual behavior by providing re...
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Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique - Working Paper 328
Jenny Aker et al.
June 19, 2013
Jenny Aker and co-authors present the results of a field experiment implemented in Mozambique based on three interventions providing information to voters and calling for their participation in the elections: an SMS civic education campaign centered on the elections, an SMS hotline to which citizens...
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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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Forest Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) Report 2: Bad News for the Pan-Tropics and Everybody Else - Working Paper 317
David Wheeler et al.
March 07, 2013
This paper updates Working Paper 294. Forest Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) is 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.
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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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