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POLICY PAPERS
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 ...
POLICY PAPERS
February 10, 2025
Banks play a central role in both the payments system and the provision of funding for firms and corporations. This role is particularly important in emerging markets and developing economies, where alternative sources of financing are scarce owing to underdeveloped local capital markets. Furthermor...
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...
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...
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October 28, 2024
The movement for localization in foreign aid presents philosophical and practical challenges for providers of foreign aid. In the past, some level of localization (to at least state actors) of both decision-making and spending could be achieved through general and sector budget support, a logistical...