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WORKING PAPERS
January 29, 2025
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major global challenge, affecting both human health and economies. This research models the potential impacts of AMR on global GDP and various sectors, showing that while better treatment and combined interventions can boost economic growth, accelerated resista...
POLICY PAPERS
January 23, 2025
For official bilateral development agencies, the realities of providing effective development cooperation are increasingly complex, as competing demands and changing international and domestic contexts are raising fundamental questions around what it means to be an effective agency. This paper explo...
WORKING PAPERS
December 18, 2024
Facing major fiscal and balance-of-payments headwinds, Ghana embarked on a comprehensive restructuring of its sovereign debt in December 2022.It was assessed that to return to sustainability, Ghana’s public debt should decline from nearly 90 percent of GDP to 55 percent of GDP with significant debt ...
POLICY PAPERS
December 17, 2024
Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Rwanda, and Senegal invest less than 0.2 percent of GDP and about 2 percent of their education budgets on pre-primary education, below international recommendations. We recommend policies to enhance transparency, prioritize early childhood funding, and use international aid to ...
POLICY PAPERS
December 16, 2024
After decades of research and development, two new malaria vaccines entered routine administration this year, and are projected to save 180,000 children’s lives by 2030. But under current plans, roughly 2.5 million children will die of malaria unvaccinated over the same period. What’s stopping a fas...
POLICY PAPERS
December 10, 2024
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) face significant policy, financial, and operational challenges in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), with the World Bank playing a central role in financing these areas. MDBs have developed strategies to address FCS, but face difficulties in transla...
WORKING PAPERS
December 10, 2024
We study how marriage market considerations influence parental investments in daughters’ education in Pakistan. Using a hypothetical choice methodology, we estimate parents’ preferences and willingness-to-pay for marital customs and daughters’ marital and post-marital outcomes. Our findings highligh...
