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Assessing the Quality of Regulations for Improving Financial Inclusion in Eight Latin American Countries
Liliana Rojas-Suarez
and
Lucía Pacheco
January 30, 2018
Many factors could be cited for the low ratios of financial inclusion in Latin America, but in a recent paper we focus on the potential role of financial regulation. We assessed and compared the quality of the policies and regulations that impinge on financial inclusion in eight Latin Amer...
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Envisioning Pay-for-Success: Learning from an Eye Health DIB in Cameroon
Amanda Glassman
and
Roxanne Oroxom
January 29, 2018
In 2013, a CGD working group signaled important benefits of development impact bonds, and worked through some of the “how-to” of design and implementation. Yet five years later, only three development impact bonds have launched.
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Structuring and Funding Development Impact Bonds for Health: Nine Lessons from Cameroon and Beyond
Roxanne Oroxom et al.
January 26, 2018
Despite the considerable interest in Development Impact Bonds, only a few have reached the implementation phase. We use information from stakeholder interviews to describe the design of one DIB in-depth and use lessons from a range of impact bonds to develop recommendations for potential partners to...
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Is the IFC Taking On Even Less Risk Than We Suggest? Our Readers Respond
Vijaya Ramachandran
and
Charles Kenny
January 25, 2018
Since the publication of our paper on the IFC’s project portfolio last week, we have received several helpful comments from readers. They plausibly suggest that the portfolio may be (even) less risky than we suggested, with even more space to pivot towards the low income countries wh...