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399: Health Benefits Packages Monitoring: A Global Public Good

Abha Mehndiratta, Ursula Giedion, Adrian Gheorghe and Martin Sabignoso

398: Decentralisation of Financing for Essential Medicines and Health Supplies: Finding the Best Fit

Sophie Witter, Anooj Pattnaik, Marianne Moussallem and Pete Baker

397: A Better Outcome for the Poorest: Finding the Right IDA-IBRD Balance

Karen Mathiasen, Clemence Landers and Nico Martinez

396: Childcare at the Multilateral Development Banks: Expansion, Integration, and What’s Next

Kelsey Harris and Astha Mainali

395: Beyond a Blueprint: Reconciling Sovereign Debt Reform Proposals with Impact and Reality

Mary Svenstrup, Masood Ahmed and Charley Ward

394: Papers, Paychecks, and Plans: Analyzing the Venezuelan Diaspora in Latin America

Dany Bahar, Jesús Marcano, Carlos Moya and Roberto Patiño

393: The New Flexi-Lateralism: International Cooperation in an Era of Raw Power Politics

Andy Sumner, Len Ishmael and Stephan Klingebiel

392: IFC and IDA Countries: Past Time for a New Approach

Charles Kenny

391: Which Occupations Should Get Skilled Worker Visas? Informing the UK’s Visa Reform

Sam Huckstep and Helen Dempster

390: The World Bank’s Window for Host Communities and Refugees: Successes, Challenges, and the Way Forward

Helen Dempster and Thomas Ginn

389: Better Debt Shock Absorbers for Poor Countries: A Proposal

Nancy Lee, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Samuel Matthews and James Reid

387: Lead-Acid Battery Recycling in Selected African Settings: Status Quo and Considerations for Sector Policies

Andreas Manhart and Fred Adjei

385: Emigration as a Growth Strategy

Charles Kenny

384: A Renewed EU Budget Support Framework to Maximise Leverage and Impact

Bernat Camps-Adrogue, Tay Drummond, Mikaela Gavas, Laura Granito and Jasper Siegfried

383: Lead-Safe Off-Grid Electrification: Understanding the Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rachel Bonnifield and Caroline Mallory

382: A Landscape Analysis of Green Skills TVET Providers: Focus on Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Senegal

Marcel Ricou, John Mountford, Helen Dempster and Shona Warren

381: Exploring Donor Investments in Green TVET

Ahmed Iqbal and Helen Dempster

380: Linking Labor Mobility and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Helen Dempster and Marcel Ricou

378: Lessons Learned from Projects Linking Green-Skilled Training and Migration

Shona Warren, Nicole Pagan and Helen Dempster

377: A Roadmap for Strengthening and Diversifying Regulatory Pathways in Africa

Javier Guzman and Ainhoa Petri-Hidalgo

376: A Forest Per Worker: Quantifying the CO2 Reduction Contribution of the Marginal “Green” (Migrant) Worker

Sam Huckstep and Johann Harnoss

375: Decreasing Domestic Drudgery: Why It Matters and What We Know About What Works in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Alba Loureiro and Kehinde Ajayi

374: What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Global Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity

Asti Shafira and Anthony McDonnell

372: How to Deprioritise? Selecting Themes, Countries and Instruments for German Development Policy

Sam Hughes, Heiner Janus, Ian Mitchell and Tim Röthel

370: Do Climate Targets Affect Lending at the World Bank?

Charles Kenny

369: World Bank Climate Mitigation: What Gets Measured and What Gets Missed

Euan Ritchie

367: More From Less: Optimising Vaccines in a Constrained World

Witold Więcek

366: The IMF and Climate Change: Focus on What Matters for Greater Impact

Mary Svenstrup

365: Are International Financial Institutions Doing Enough to Prepare for a Stablecoin Tsunami?

Karen Mathiasen and Nico Martinez

364: Platforms that Perform: Navigating Country Platform Implementation

Alexia Latortue and Jared Goodman

363: Weak Private Investment Trends in EMDEs: What Can Governments Do About It?

Nancy Lee, Samuel Matthews and James Reid

360: A “Diagonal” Approach to Integrating Nutrition into Health Systems: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Way Forward

Asti Shafira and Javier Guzman

359: China's Investment Pivot and Africa’s Industrial Prospects: Any Hope for African “Flying Geese”?

Charles Kenny

358: Urban Refugee Policies and Legislation in Kenya and Uganda: 2025 Stocktake

Thomas Ginn and Harrison Tang

355: Does World Bank Climate Adaptation Finance Go to the Most Vulnerable Countries?

Nancy Lee, Samuel Matthews and James Reid

354: Toxic Lead Paint Pigment Exports from Rich to Poor Countries

Rory Todd, Lee Crawfurd and Rachel Bonnifield

352: Planned Relocation of Climate-Vulnerable Communities: Preparing Multilateral Development Banks

Steven Goldfinch and Sam Huckstep

351: Aligning International Banking Regulation with the SDGs

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

349: Childcare and Early Childhood Development Expenditures in Africa: Comparative Policy Insights for Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment

Kelsey Harris, Kehinde Ajayi and Astha Mainali

348: Avoiding Another Lost Decade on Malaria Vaccines

Ryan Duncombe, Karam Elabd and Justin Sandefur

347: Multilateral Development Banks in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Overview of Key Policy, Financial, and Operational Issues

Koldo Echebarria

346: Localization in Theory and Practice

Ranil Dissanayake

345: A Proposal for the IMF: A New Instrument of International Liquidity Provision for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Laura Alfaro, Guillermo Calvo, Jose De Gregorio, Augusto de la Torre, Pablo Guidotti, Enrique Mendoza, Ernesto Talvi, Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Andrés Velasco

344: How Science Diplomacy Can Reshape Global Research Publishing: A Theory of Change

Sophie Gulliver, Anastassia Demeshko, Jon Harle and Tom Drake

343: Making Migration Work for Climate Adaptation: Classifying Remittances as Climate Finance

Sam Huckstep and Jonathan Beynon

342: Africa’s Oil Shock: Are the Bretton Woods Institutions Ready?

Cleo Rose-Innes

341: Conditioned Domestic “Co-financing” Policies in Global Health: A Landscape Analysis

Susan Sparkes, MyMai Yungrattanachai and Victoria Fan

340: A Liquidity Line for MDBs: SDR Rechanneling Revisited

Andrew Powell

339: China as a Provider of International Climate Finance

Beata Cichocka and Ian Mitchell

338: A New Compact for Financing Health Services: Opportunities for Gavi and Partner Countries

Alec Morton, Jamaica Briones, Anastassia Demeshko, Pete Baker and Tom Drake