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September 17, 2024
Globally, women’s share in corporate leadership has been steadily rising, including in India. The female director mandate under The Companies Act (2013) in India marked a significant step toward gender-inclusive corporate leadership, requiring listed firms to have at least one woman on their board. ...
POLICY PAPERS
September 11, 2024
As Gavi embarks on its next strategic phase, it faces shifting donor priorities, rising costs of new vaccines, incomplete vaccine coverage, and economic constraints in supported countries. Additionally, health ministries face increasing pressures related to universal health coverage, complex disease...
POLICY PAPERS
September 11, 2024
Adopting a "New Compact" approach, where the Ethiopian government finances top-priority health interventions while donor aid extends coverage to additional high-value services, could significantly enhance health outcomes, potentially increasing healthy life years by 15 percent. However, full impleme...
WORKING PAPERS
September 09, 2024
Deposit insurance is a widely adopted policy to promote financial stability in the banking sector. Deposit insurance helps ensure depositor confidence in the financial system and prevents contagious bank runs, but it also comes with an unintended consequence of encouraging banks to take on excessive...
POLICY PAPERS
September 06, 2024
Launched in December 2023, the Lusaka Agenda laid out a set of shifts and actions to strengthen financing for universal health coverage (UHC). A process for establishing mutual accountability for delivery is ongoing, including within the African Union, but metrics for assessing progress have not yet...
WORKING PAPERS
September 05, 2024
Exams influence how teachers teach, but most of our understanding comes from cross-sectional studies in OECD countries, particularly the USA. These dynamics might not apply elsewhere. We surveyed 321 Kenyan teachers during their transition from high- to low-stakes assessments in primary schools—the ...