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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.
POLICY PAPER

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...
Blog Post

Refugees Are a Boon Not a Burden: Here’s How to Get the Best Results for Everyone
Owen Barder
and
Euan Ritchie
December 18, 2017
We need to stop talking about refugees as if they are burden to be shared. Refugees benefit both economy and the community—and if we invested more and better in giving them a good start, they would be able to make an even bigger contribution. Here we suggest innovative finance mechanisms to...
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How to Make Disasters Predictable
April 27, 2017
Last year more than 83 million people in low- and middle-income countries were affected by natural disasters. We may not know when or where the next disaster will strike, but we know it will. So why do we still treat disasters like surprises? A new CGD report urges a different approach: ma...