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POLICY PAPER
April 16, 2025
Health taxes are a well-known fiscal measure for discouraging consumption of unhealthy products like tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages. Less well known are opportunities to eliminate government subsidies. This paper is an inquiry into subsidies for tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages, produc...
POLICY PAPER
April 10, 2025
Global underinvestment in climate adaptation increases the importance of ensuring that such finance is well targeted and well spent. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are the largest public source of adaptation finance for developing countries, and the World Bank accounts for about half of the M...
POLICY PAPER
April 09, 2025
Lead poisoning affects one in three children globally, with large but neglected impacts on health and education. One important source of exposure is lead in paint, of which one key additive is the pigment lead chromate. Lead chromate is toxic and safe alternatives exist: its use is effectively prohi...
WORKING PAPER
March 31, 2025
Constraints that inhibit small business growth are potentially amplified for groups with limited access to existing business networks like refugees and women. Programs that facilitate intergroup contact, in addition to capital, could potentially raise welfare, especially if incentives are aligned fo...
WORKING PAPER
March 18, 2025
This paper tests the hypothesis that the growing proportion of World Bank contracts granted to Chinese firms, particularly in the infrastructure sector, may undermine results by exposing projects to lower standards of work. We find that such concerns are unfounded. We create a dataset of World Bank ...
POLICY PAPER
March 04, 2025
Despite strong evidence of impact and cost-effectiveness, nutrition interventions are consistently underprioritized and underresourced within the health sector. Drawing from relevant experiences in the broader global health landscape, this paper proposes four policy recommendations to enhance the ne...
POLICY PAPER
February 12, 2025
Planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities is increasingly necessary as climate shocks become more frequent and intense. It is also becoming more feasible as modelling of future scenarios improves and adaptation limits become clearer. Still, many governments are underprepared for planning ...
