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WORKING PAPERS
Management, Supervision, and Healthcare: A Field Experiment
Felipe A. Dunsch et al.
April 14, 2021
We used a randomized management consulting intervention with 80 public-sector healthcare facilities in Nigeria to study the role of information, training, and supervision on the adoption of improved organizational practices.
CGD NOTES
“Tens of Millions” to “Hundreds of Millions”: Synthetic Credit to Enable Private Funding for Infrastructure in Low-Income Countries
W. Gyude Moore
April 08, 2021
As the Biden administration turns its attention to infrastructure legislation in the United States, it is important to focus on the role investment in infrastructure financing can play in the recovery. This note covers a policy proposal for a credit enhancement instrument, using concessional financi...
Blog Post
The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Emerging Findings from Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda
Carleigh Krubiner et al.
March 30, 2021
Much of the initial COVID response focused on limiting cases and deaths, without sufficient attention to the broader indirect impacts. A new CGD series investigates.
WORKING PAPERS
Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Lockdown in South Africa
Benjamin Smart et al.
March 30, 2021
This paper investigates both the potential impact of national lockdown measures on COVID-19 transmission, and other health and non-health indicators in South Africa, based on available data. We present findings relating to both “costs” and “benefits” in health terms of the national lockdown side by ...
WORKING PAPERS
Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Services and Mitigation Measures in Uganda
Nazarius Tumwesigye et al.
March 30, 2021
On 21st March 2020, Uganda reported its first COVID-19 case. The government responded by instituting a lockdown and other measures. We assess the effects of the COVID-19 containment measures on health services to better inform the next preventive measures. We use a case study approach that involved ...
WORKING PAPERS
Assessing the Indirect Health Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya
Edwine Barasa et al.
March 30, 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the indirect health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya. We employed a mixed-methods approach, combining the analysis of secondary quantitative data obtained from the Kenya Health Information System database (from January 2019 to November 2020) and a qualitat...
Blog Post
Technology or Labor Costs? Why Has Africa Missed Out on a Manufacturing Takeoff? And Is Manufacturing Still a Viable Path to Development?
Christian Meyer et al.
March 08, 2021
Debates on Sub-Saharan Africa’s development path and prospects often focus on two questions. Looking back, why have countries not experienced the structural transformation towards labor-intensive manufactures that has played such an important a role in the rapid development of Asian countries? And, ...