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Snakes on a Log Frame: Cobra Effects and Payment by Results

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August 08, 2014

Administrators in colonial-era Delhi, the story goes, had a problem. The growing capital city bordered agricultural land, bringing more people into occasionally deadly contact with a subcontinental rogues gallery that included cobras and banded kraits.

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What Is Good about the Good Country Index?

Petra Krylová

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Owen Barder

August 04, 2014

The Good Country Index (GCI), aiming “to measure what each country on earth contributes to the common good of humanity,” has just been launched by Simon Anholt at TEDsalon in Berlin.

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12:30—2:00 PM

A CGD Europe Research Seminar: Migrant Networks and Trade

Matt Collin

July 23, 2014

In the UK, the heated public debate over immigration does not always take account of all the evidence of the effects of migration on receiving countries. In this CGD Europe research seminar, Pierre-Louis Vezina discusses his recent research paper "Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat...

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How Much Are Developing Countries Losing from Commodity Mispricing Really?

Alex Cobham

July 22, 2014

In 2010 I calculated (for a Christian Aid report) that if Zambia had received in 2008 the same export prices in each copper category as had been declared on Swiss exports, then Zambia’s recorded GDP would have been 80 percent bigger.