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What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage: Key...

What’s In, What’s Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage: Key Messages for Donors and AdvocatesPublications10/6/17Many low- and middle-income countries aspire to universal health...

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Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the...

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills - Working Paper...

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Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in a Mobile...

Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in a Mobile World (brief)Publications10/11/17Within a decade, Europe will require hundreds of thousands more nurses than it is likely to...

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Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in Settings of...

Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in Settings of Forced DisplacementPublications10/11/17The world urgently needs innovation to shape how international migration happens....

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Can Africa Be a Manufacturing Destination? Labor Costs in Comparative...

Can Africa Be a Manufacturing Destination? Labor Costs in Comparative Perspective - Working Paper 466Publications10/6/17Our central question is whether African countries can break into global...

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Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries -...

Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries - Working Paper 467Publications10/18/17We analyzed a large-scale municipal water disinfection program in Mexico in 1991 that...

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SEWA Gitanjali Cooperative: A Social Enterprise in the Making

SEWA Gitanjali Cooperative: A Social Enterprise in the MakingPublications10/23/17In 1995, India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) organized women waste pickers in Ahmedabad into a cooperative...

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An Index of Regulatory Practices for Financial Inclusion in Latin America:...

An Index of Regulatory Practices for Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Enablers, Promoters, and Preventers - Working Paper 468Publications10/26/17This paper constructs an index of regulatory...

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Estimating the SDGs' Demand for Innovation - Working Paper 469

Estimating the SDGs' Demand for Innovation - Working Paper 469Publications10/26/17How much innovation will be needed to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals? Our results suggest that...

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The Perils of Partial Attribution: Let’s All Play for Team Development

The Perils of Partial Attribution: Let’s All Play for Team DevelopmentPublications10/26/17The debate about whether it is more important to have good individual statistics or be a team player that...

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Energy in Africa Promotes US Economic and Security Interests

Energy in Africa Promotes US Economic and Security InterestsPublications11/1/17Todd Moss testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multilateral...

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The IMF: Crawling the Walk on Gender?

The IMF: Crawling the Walk on Gender?Publications11/2/17Under managing director Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become a champion for gender equality. This note examines...

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Six Reasons Why the Global Fund Should Adopt Health Technology Assessment

Six Reasons Why the Global Fund Should Adopt Health Technology AssessmentPublications11/8/17With aid budgets shrinking and even low-income countries increasingly faced with cofinancing requirements,...

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Rethinking Global Development Policy for the 21st Century

Rethinking Global Development Policy for the 21st CenturyPublications11/9/17CGD Board Chair Lawrence H. Summers delivered this keynote speech at an event hosted at the Center for Global Development on...

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When Do Subsidy Reforms Stick? Lessons from Iran, Nigeria, and India

When Do Subsidy Reforms Stick? Lessons from Iran, Nigeria, and IndiaPublications11/17/17This paper covers qualitative case studies from Iran, Nigeria, and India to illustrate a series of lessons for...

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Billions to Trillions? Issues on the Role of Development Banks in Mobilizing...

Billions to Trillions? Issues on the Role of Development Banks in Mobilizing Private FinancePublications11/17/17It is time to take a fresh look at the PSWs and to ask some basic questions about their...

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Leveraging the Links between Migration and Development: US Government Policy,...

Leveraging the Links between Migration and Development: US Government Policy, Practice, and PotentialPublications11/20/17This paper reviews the positions and activities of the US government that have...

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Toward Better Multilateral Development Banks: Can the United States and China...

Toward Better Multilateral Development Banks: Can the United States and China Lead Together?Publications11/21/17The purpose of this note is to provide a realistic analysis of where MDBs have made...

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Working Itself Out of a Job: USAID and Smart Strategic Transitions

Working Itself Out of a Job: USAID and Smart Strategic TransitionsPublications12/1/17USAID has announced its intention to pursue “strategic transitions”—shifting select countries which have achieved an...

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The Need for a Bilateral Labor Agreement Between the US and Mexico, and the...

The Need for a Bilateral Labor Agreement Between the US and Mexico, and the Responsibility for LeadershipPublications12/4/17From his keynote speech in Mexico City, Michael Clemens writes:Mexico and the...

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