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Wheeler</a>, Robin Kraft, and Dan Hammer</div> <p> This report summarizes recent trends in large-scale tropical forest clearing identified by FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action). FORMA produces indicators that track monthly changes in the number of 1-sq.-km. tropical forest parcels that have experienced clearing with high probability. This report... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425830_image_Wheeler_et_al_REDD_to_Green.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425830/">From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing - Working Paper 282</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 22, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584">David Wheeler</a>, Dan Hammer, and Robin Kraft</div> <p> This paper develops and illustrates a prototype incentive system for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425822_image_Devarajan_Direct_redistribution.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425822/">Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies: A Proposal - Working Paper 281</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 20, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Shantayanan Devarajan, Hélène Ehrhart, Tuan Minh Le, and Gaël Raballand</div> <p> To enhance efficiency of public spending in oil-rich economies, this paper proposes that some of the oil revenues be transferred directly to citizens, and then taxed to finance public expenditures. The argument is that spending that is financed by taxation—rather than by resource revenues... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425820_image_Wheeler_Indonesia_Forest.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425820/">Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia - Working Paper 280</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 19, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584">David Wheeler</a>, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta, and Brian Blankespoor</div> <p> David Wheeler and co-authors use detailed monthly data from FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action) to determine the factors that contribute to deforestation in Indonesia. Their results highlight the importance of incorporating economic dynamics into financial compensation arrangements for forest... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425810_image_zipped_file.png&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425810/">Data Set for Working Paper 279: “The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country”</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 13, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424570">Justin Sandefur</a></div> <p> This set includes data and Stata files to replicate the results in CGD Working Paper 279, “The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country” </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425809_image_Roodman_Due_Diligence_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425809/">Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 13, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2719">David Roodman</a></div> <p> Readers of David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog will immediately recognize his thorough, straightforward, and trenchant analysis of whether microfinance is the boon many think it is. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425807_image_Sandefur_et_al_High_return.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425807/">The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country - Working Paper 279</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424570">Justin Sandefur</a></div> <p> Using data from Kenya—a poor country with weak public institutions—the authors find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425806_image_Kenny_Sumner_MDG.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425806/">More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved? - Working Paper 278</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424569">Charles Kenny</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424772"> Andy Sumner</a></div> <p> This paper reflects on the global goal setting experience of the MDGs and what might be done differently if there is new round of MDGs after 2015. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425799_image_Mattoo_Subramanian_china_round.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425799/">A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations - Working Paper 277</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 10, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Aaditya Mattoo and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/12989">Arvind Subramanian</a></div> <p> Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha Agenda is an aberration because it does not reflect one of the biggest shifts in the international economic and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425798_image_Kenny_broadband.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425798/">Overselling Broadband: A Critique of the Recommendation of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 8, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424569">Charles Kenny</a></div> <p> The Broadband Commission for Digital Development is an ITU (UN International Telecommunications Union) and UNESCO–backed body set up to advocate for greater broadband access worldwide. The commission’s Declaration of Broadband Inclusion for All and other reports call for governments to support... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425795_image_Kapur_Vaishnav_quid_pro_quo.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425795/"><em>Quid Pro Quo</em>: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India - Working Paper 276</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 7, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2705">Devesh Kapur</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424325">Milan Vaishnav</a></div> <p> In developing countries where elections are costly and accountability mechanisms weak, politicians often turn to illicit means of financing campaigns. 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Evidence from Commodity Prices" </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425782_image_Dunning_Honduras_field_report.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425782/">MCA Monitor Report from the Field: Honduras</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 2, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#CADU">Casey Dunning</a></div> <p> This report (the second report from the field for Honduras) examines the enduring results of the compact more than a year after its official closeout. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425135_image_Savedoff_Martel_cod_health.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425135/">Cash On Delivery Aid for Health: What Indicators Would Work Best? - Working Paper 275</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16573">William Savedoff</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#KDoug">Katherine Douglas Martel</a></div> <p> This paper assesses the challenges of applying COD Aid in the health sector. 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We offer a forecast of potential FY2012 eligible countries; it is not an official list of the countries that will...</p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425497_image_Aker_A_agriculture_cover.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425497%20forcerecrawl:%200">Dial "A" for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 29, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16350">Jenny Aker</a></div> <p>Agriculture can serve as an important engine for economic growth in developing countries, yet yields in these countries have lagged far behind those in developed countries for decades. 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Approaching the discussion by delineating between cultural differences across the...</p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/11619_image_how_to_do_xtabond.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/11619">How to Do xtabond2: An Introduction to "Difference" and "System" GMM in Stata - Working Paper 103</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 6, 2006</span> </div> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">David Roodman</div> <p>This working paper by CGD research fellow David Roodman provides an original synthesis and exposition of the literature on a particular class of econometric techniques called "dynamic panel estimators," and presents the first implementation of some of these techniques in Stata, a statistical...</p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425324_image_Over_AIDS_Transition_thumb.jpg&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425324">Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 15, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/10007">Mead Over</a></div> <p>Five million people in poor countries are receiving AIDS treatment, but international AIDS policy is still in crisis. 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Making the details of construction contracts public is one proven way to help citizens get what they are paying for.</p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425646_image_Kenny_middle_class.gif&w=60&h=60&zc=1" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <div class="item-title"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425646">Where Is the Virtue in the Middle Class?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 11, 2011</span> </div> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="">Charles Kenny</a></div> <p>It is widely agreed that the middle class is vital to progress because of its many virtues, but defining middle class in any meaningful way is difficult. And survey evidence suggests the middle class is not culturally unique, particularly socially progressive, or entrepreneurial.</p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> <a class="more-link" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/">More Publications</a> </div> <div class="tab-box briefs"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425642_image_Quoda_Busan_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425642/">Measuring the Quality of Aid: QuODA Second Edition (Brief for the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan, South Korea)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 14, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483">Nancy Birdsall</a>, Homi Kharas, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#RPER">Rita Perakis</a></div> <p> This brief provides a summary of the forthcoming second edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) Assessment sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425614_image_Over_AIDS_Tr_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425614/">Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment (CGD Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 3, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/10007">Mead Over</a></div> <p> This brief summarizes the recommendations in Achieving an AIDS Transition to use focused policies and well-designed incentives to finally bring the AIDS epidemic under control. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425586_image_CDI_2011_brief_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425586/">Commitment to Development Index 2011</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2719">David Roodman</a></div> <p> The Commitment to Development Index ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5.5 billion people living in poorer nations. 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width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425426_image_Glassman_NCDs.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425426/">Affordable Interventions to Prevent Noncommunicable Diseases Worldwide</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 8, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424518">Amanda Glassman</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#KMcQ">Kate McQueston</a></div> <p> Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and mental illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. The good news is that much of the NCD burden can be prevented through interventions that are affordable in most countries.... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425413_image_CERP_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425413/">The Commander’s Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Five Practical Recommendations (CGD Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 6, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Gregory Johnson, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2717">Vijaya Ramachandran</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#JWAL">Julie Walz</a></div> <p> The U.S. military has become substantially engaged in economic development and stabilization and will likely continue to be for some time to come. This brief takes U.S. military involvement in development as a given and concentrates on five recommendations for it to operate more efficiently and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425178_image_Migration_postdisaster_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425178/">Beyond Aid: Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery (CGD Brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 6, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2570/">Michael Clemens</a> and Kaci Farrell</div> <p> This policy brief explores the various legal channels through which the U.S. government could leverage the power of migration to help provide disaster relief. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424991_image_UNFPA_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424991/">Focus UNFPA: Four Recommendations for Action (brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 11, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#KSTE">Katie Stein</a></div> <p> The Center for Global Development Working Group on UNFPA’s Leadership Transition urges the UNFPA to sharpen its focus in pursuing the Programme of Action developed at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424993_image_Perry_Direct_Support_brief.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424993/">Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks’ Direct Support to Private Firms (brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 11, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/15190">Guillermo Perry</a></div> <p> Guillermo Perry assesses whether arguments in favor of such MDB direct support are valid and whether MDBs are living up to priorities coherent with such arguments and finds that they do so only partially. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424685_image_COD_Aid_pakistan.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424685/">The Challenge of Aid in Pakistan: Is Cash on Delivery Part of the Solution?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 29, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#WELH">Wren Elhai</a></div> <p> This brief examines options for a COD Aid contract in Pakistan’s education sector and its potential benefits for improving the relationship between official donors and the government of Pakistan, and for increasing the effectiveness of aid spending in Pakistan. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424922_image_Sumner_new_bottom_billion.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424922/">The New Bottom Billion: What If Most of the World's Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 18, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424772">Andy Sumner</a></div> <p> Most of the world’s poor no longer live in low-income countries. An estimated 960 million poor people—a new bottom billion—live in middle-income countries, a result of the graduation of several populous countries from low-income status. That is good news, but it has repercussions. Donors will... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424603_image_COD_Aid_brief_200.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424603/">Cash on Delivery: A New Approach to Foreign Aid (brief)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 15, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483/">Nancy Birdsall</a>, Ayah Mahgoub, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16573">William D. Savedoff</a></div> <p> This brief describes a new approach, Cash on Delivery Aid, which gives recipients full responsibility and authority over funds paid in proportion to verified measures of progress. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424561_image_CDI_2010.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424561/">Commitment to Development Index 2010</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 4, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2719">David Roodman</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#JWAL">Julie Walz</a></div> <p> The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) ranks 22 of the world’s richest countries on their dedication to policies that benefit the five billion people living in poorer nations. Moving beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid volumes, the CDI quantifies a range of rich country policies that... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> <a class="more-link" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/?type=48">More Briefs</a> </div> <div class="tab-box working_papers"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425835_image_Wheeler_FORMA_pantropics.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425835/">Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011 - Working Paper 283</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 28, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584">David Wheeler</a>, Robin Kraft, and Dan Hammer</div> <p> This report summarizes recent trends in large-scale tropical forest clearing identified by FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action). FORMA produces indicators that track monthly changes in the number of 1-sq.-km. tropical forest parcels that have experienced clearing with high probability. This report... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425830_image_Wheeler_et_al_REDD_to_Green.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425830/">From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing - Working Paper 282</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 22, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584">David Wheeler</a>, Dan Hammer, and Robin Kraft</div> <p> This paper develops and illustrates a prototype incentive system for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425822_image_Devarajan_Direct_redistribution.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425822/">Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies: A Proposal - Working Paper 281</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 20, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Shantayanan Devarajan, Hélène Ehrhart, Tuan Minh Le, and Gaël Raballand</div> <p> To enhance efficiency of public spending in oil-rich economies, this paper proposes that some of the oil revenues be transferred directly to citizens, and then taxed to finance public expenditures. The argument is that spending that is financed by taxation—rather than by resource revenues... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425820_image_Wheeler_Indonesia_Forest.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425820/">Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia - Working Paper 280</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 19, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584">David Wheeler</a>, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta, and Brian Blankespoor</div> <p> David Wheeler and co-authors use detailed monthly data from FORMA (Forest Monitoring for Action) to determine the factors that contribute to deforestation in Indonesia. Their results highlight the importance of incorporating economic dynamics into financial compensation arrangements for forest... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425807_image_Sandefur_et_al_High_return.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425807/">The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country - Working Paper 279</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424570">Justin Sandefur</a></div> <p> Using data from Kenya—a poor country with weak public institutions—the authors find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425806_image_Kenny_Sumner_MDG.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425806/">More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved? - Working Paper 278</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 12, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424569">Charles Kenny</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424772"> Andy Sumner</a></div> <p> This paper reflects on the global goal setting experience of the MDGs and what might be done differently if there is new round of MDGs after 2015. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425799_image_Mattoo_Subramanian_china_round.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425799/">A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations - Working Paper 277</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 10, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Aaditya Mattoo and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/12989">Arvind Subramanian</a></div> <p> Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha Agenda is an aberration because it does not reflect one of the biggest shifts in the international economic and... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425795_image_Kapur_Vaishnav_quid_pro_quo.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425795/"><em>Quid Pro Quo</em>: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India - Working Paper 276</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 7, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2705">Devesh Kapur</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424325">Milan Vaishnav</a></div> <p> In developing countries where elections are costly and accountability mechanisms weak, politicians often turn to illicit means of financing campaigns. This paper examines one such channel of illicit campaign finance: India’s real estate sector. Politicians and builders allegedly engage in a quid... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425135_image_Savedoff_Martel_cod_health.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425135/">Cash On Delivery Aid for Health: What Indicators Would Work Best? - Working Paper 275</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16573">William Savedoff</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#KDoug">Katherine Douglas Martel</a></div> <p> This paper assesses the challenges of applying COD Aid in the health sector. After clarifying how COD Aid differs from results-based financing approaches, the paper presents four key characteristics for designing a successful agreement. It discusses features of the health sector and foreign aid... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425755_image_Bazzi_Blattman_price_shocks.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425755/">Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Prices - Working Paper 274</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Samuel Bazzi and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/13993">Chris Blattman</a></div> <p> One of the most influential ideas in the study of political instability is that income shocks provoke conflict. “State prize” theories argue that higher revenues increase incentives to capture the state.“Opportunity cost” theories argue that higher prices decrease individual incen-tives to... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425691_image_Walz_Ramachandran_brave_new_world.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425691/">Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistance - Working Paper 273</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 21, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#JWAL">Julie Walz</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2717/">Vijaya Ramachandran</a></div> <p> This paper investigates the scale and scope of emerging donors and ways the international donor community could encourage their greater transparency and accountability. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425688_image_Kenny_construction.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425688/">Publishing Construction Contracts as a Tool for Efficiency and Good Governance - Working Paper 272</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 21, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424569">Charles Kenny</a></div> <p> Construction is a vital part of development, but it often falls prey to poor governance and corruption. Making the details of construction contracts public is one proven way to help citizens get what they are paying for. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425590_image_Sandefur_Kenya_fees.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425590/">Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya? - Working Paper 271</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 31, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, and <a href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424570">Justin Sandefur</a></div> <p> Previous studies suggest that abolishing user fees would increase enrollment in public schools, but the results of this research show that the opposite is true in Kenya. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425581_image_New_Bottom_Billion_health_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425581/">Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: What Do Shifts in Global Poverty and the Global Disease Burden Mean for GAVI and the Global Fund? - Working Paper 270</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 27, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424518">Amanda Glassman</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#DDUR">Denizhan Duran</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424772">Andy Sumner</a></div> <p> After a decade of rapid growth in average incomes, many countries have attained middle-income country (MIC) status, while poverty hasn’t fallen as much as one might expect. As a result, there are up to a billion poor people or a ‘new bottom billion’ living not in the world’s poorest... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425497_image_Aker_A_agriculture_cover.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425497/">Dial "A" for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 29, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16350">Jenny Aker</a></div> <p> Agriculture can serve as an important engine for economic growth in developing countries, yet yields in these countries have lagged far behind those in developed countries for decades. One potential mechanism for increasing yields is the use of improved agricultural technologies, such as... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425470_image_Aker_et_al_Zap_it_to_me.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425470/">Zap It to Me: The Short-Term Impacts of a Mobile Cash Transfer Program - Working Paper 268</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 20, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/16350">Jenny Aker</a>, Rachid Boumnijel, Amanda McClelland, and Niall Tierney</div> <p> This paper reports on the first randomized evaluation of a cash transfer program delivered via mobile phone. The trial households in targeted villages monthly cash transfers and finds that the mobile phone–based program saves costs and has greater benefits for recipients. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425454_image_Wheeler_IMF_selection_survey.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425454/">Unity in Diversity: A Global Consensus on Choosing the IMF’s Managing Director—Evidence from CGD’s Online Survey - Working Paper 267</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 15, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/11584">David Wheeler</a></div> <p> David Wheeler analyzes the results of CGD's online survey on selecting the IMF managing director </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425433_image_West_Iraq_oil.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425433/">Iraq’s Last Window: Diffusing the Risks of a Petro-State - Working Paper 266</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 12, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Johnny West</div> <p> Johnny West describes how an oil-dividend program could be structured by, for example, taking advantage of Iraq’s existing rationing system, ubiquitous mobile phone networks, and new biometric ID cards. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425397_image_Johnson_Ramachandran_Walz_CERP.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425397/">The Commanders Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Refining U.S. Military Capabilities in Stability and In-Conflict Development Activities - Working Paper 265</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 6, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Gregory Johnson, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2717">Vijaya Ramachandran</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#JWAL">Julie Walz</a></div> <p> The U.S. military has become substantially engaged in the development and stabilization space and will likely continue to operate in this space for some time to come. This paper proposed five policy changes for the military to improve its development activities. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425376_image_Clemens_Economics_Emigration.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425376/">Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? - Working Paper 264</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 18, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2570/">Michael Clemens</a></div> <p> Barriers to emigration cost the world economy much more than all remaining barriers to the international movement of goods and capital combined, but they are given little attention by economists. Michael Clemens writes that they deserve a much higher research priority and sketches a four-point... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> </ul> <a class="more-link" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/?type=50">More Working Papers</a> </div> <div class="tab-box reports"> <ul> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425623_image_Dunning_McCarthy_preview.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425623/">Which Countries Pass the FY2012 Selection Hard Hurdles? A Preview into Round 9 of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Country Selection</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 7, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#CADU">Casey Dunning</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#OWMC">Owen McCarthy</a></div> <p> This note offers a preliminary assessment of MCC candidate country scores on the FY2012 hard hurdles. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425588_image_Bollyky_Clinical_trials.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425588/">Safer, Faster, Cheaper: Improving Clinical Trials and Regulatory Pathways to Fight Neglected Diseases</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 31, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Thomas Bollyky, chair</div> <p> This report of the Working Group on Clinical Trials and Regulatory Pathways provides practical policy recommendations to help provide better, safer, and cheaper medicine and treatment to the 1 billion people suffering from neglected diseases. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425457_image_Veillette_Future_Aid_Reform.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425457/">The Future of U.S. Aid Reform: Rhetoric, Reality, and Recommendations</a> <span class="item-date"> - Sep 19, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1424455">Connie Veillette</a></div> <p> This report takes a look at the Obama administration's FY2012 budget request and congressional reaction to gauge the potential for implementing foreign aid reforms as spelled out in the administration's policy documents. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1425136_image_Pakistan_report.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1425136/">Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 1, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/483">Nancy Birdsall,</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#WELH">Wren Elhai,</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1423273/">Molly Kinder</a></div> <p> In a new CGD report, U.S. and Pakistani development experts urge a substantial revamp of the U.S. approach to Pakistan, saying that U.S. efforts to build prosperity in the nuclear-armed nation with a fledgling democratic government, burgeoning youth population, and shadowy intelligence services are... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424988_image_UNFPA_report_200.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424988/">Focus UNFPA: Four Recommendations for Action</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 11, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">The CGD Working Group on UNFPA’s Leadership Transition</div> <p> The time is right to reinvigorate UNFPA. Seventeen years after the groundbreaking ICPD meeting, UNFPA needs to make itself the lead agency for population, sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights in the UN system, as well as be more visible externally. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424992_image_Perry_MDB_Direct_Support.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424992/">Growing Business or Development Priority? Multilateral Development Banks' Direct Support to Private Firms</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 11, 2011</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/15190"> Guillermo Perry</a></div> <p> Private sector lending by international financial institutions (IFIs) is soaring. Guillermo Perry finds it’s a mixed bag and suggests improvements, including more support to small and medium firms and avoidance of procyclical lending. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424663_image_Georgia_report.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424663/">MCA Monitor Report from the Field: Republic of Georgia</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 9, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#CADU">Casey Dunning</a></div> <p> This report offers a snapshot analysis of the Republic of Georgia’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact implementation. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424647_image_FY11_selection.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424647/">Round Eight of the MCA: Which Countries Will the MCC Board Likely Select as Eligible in FY2011</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 6, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#CADU">Casey Dunning</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#OWMC">Owen McCarthy</a>, and<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/8092"> Sarah Jane Staats</a></div> <p> This analysis draws upon two recent congressionally mandated reports and country indicator performance to predict which countries the MCC board will select as eligible to apply for FY2011 compact or threshold assistance. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424593_image_More_than_Money.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424593/">More than Money: Impact Investing for Development</a> <span class="item-date"> - Dec 6, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/1420956/">John Simon</a> and Julia Barmeier</div> <p> In this report John Simon and Julia Barmier assess past and current efforts to indicate whether direct development investment is worth promoting as a matter of public policy. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424618_image_Odious_Debt_cover.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424618/">Preventing Odious Obligations: A New Tool for Protecting Citizens from Illegitimate Regimes</a> <span class="item-date"> - Nov 22, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/topics/debt/odious_debt">The Prevention of Odious Debt Working Group</a></div> <p> The Prevention of Odious Debt Working Group proposes a new tool to alleviate the burden that unjust transactions impose on successor governments and their citizens. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424481_image_Quoda_cover_2.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424481/">Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment (report)</a> <span class="item-date"> - Oct 5, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">Nancy Birdsall and Homi Kharas</div> <p> QuODA is an assessment of the Quality of Official Development Assistance provided by 23 countries and more than 150 aid countries. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424385_image_Zeroing_in_thumb.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424385/">Zeroing In: AIDS Donors and Africa’s Health Workforce</a> <span class="item-date"> - Aug 26, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/6727">Nandini Oomman,</a> David Wendt, and Christina Droggitis</div> <p> This report focuses on the workforce strengthening strategies of three of the major HIV/AIDS donors—the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), and the World Bank’s Africa Multi-country HIV/AIDS... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424207_image_race_against_drug_resistance_report.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424207/">The Race Against Drug Resistance</a> <span class="item-date"> - Jun 14, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/13109">Rachel Nugent,</a> Emma Back, and Alexandra Beith</div> <p> In an increasingly interconnected world, drug resistance does not stop at a patient’s bedside—it threatens global health. The conclusions of the Center for Global Development’s Drug Resistance Working Group make clear the need for urgent action to address this growing crisis. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1424030_image_hiv_aids_monitor_are_funding_decisions_based_on_performance.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424030/">HIV/AIDS Monitor: Are Funding Decisions Based on Performance?</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 6, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/6727/">Nandini Oomman</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/about/staff#SRos">Steven Rosenzweig</a>, and Michael Bernstein</div> <p> This report examines the use of performance-based funding (PBF) among the big three funders of HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries: the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank’s Multi-Country... </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423918_image_Open_markets_report.gif&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423918/">Open Markets for the Poorest Countries: Trade Preferences That Work</a> <span class="item-date"> - Apr 1, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;">The CGD Working Group on Global Trade Preference Reform<br><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2700">Kimberly Ann Elliott</a>, chair</div> <p> The CGD Working Group on Global Trade Preference Reform shows how changes to trade preference programs could greatly benefit those living in the poorest countires at very little cost to preference-giving countries. </p> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </li> <li> <div style="float:left; width:60px"> <img src="/web/20120104143956im_/http://cgdev.org/layout/timthumb.php?src=/files/1423783_image_a_doing_business_facility.jpg&w=50&h=50" alt=""/> </div> <div style="margin-left:70px"> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="/web/20120104143956/http://cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1423783/">A Doing Business Facility: A Proposal for Enhancing Business Climate Reform Assistance</a> <span class="item-date"> - Mar 30, 2010</span> <div class="item-description"> <div style="font-style: italic;margin: 2px 0 0 0;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/section/topics/regions/africa/advancing_africa_s_private_sector_working_group">The Supporting Business Climate Reforms Working Group</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120104143956/http://www.cgdev.org/content/expert/detail/2713">Todd Moss</a>, chair</div> <p> Africa remains extremely difficult for entrepreneurs. Donors are increasingly targeting assistance to address the investment-climate constraints that hinder private-sector growth. 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