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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

388: What Will It Mean for Development Agencies to Be Effective in the Years Ahead?

Rachael Calleja, Beata Cichocka and Sara Bellés

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

Andreas Manhart and Fred Adjei

386: A New Compact for Health Financing: From Principle to Practice

Tom Drake, Anastassia Demeshko, Mizan Mirutse, Solomon Memirie, Ole Norheim, Miloud Kaddar, Kalipso Chalkidou, Pete Baker and Nadia Yakhelef

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

379: What Role Can Routine Vaccination Play in Pandemic Prevention and Preparedness? An Economic Evaluation of Mpox Vaccination

Tim Laurence, Caroline Moore, Janeen Keller and Rosie Eldridge

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

373: Effectiveness In Practice: What It Means and How It Is Implemented by Four Development Agencies

Beata Cichocka, Sara Bellés and Rachael Calleja

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

Sam Hughes, Heiner Janus, Ian Mitchell and Tim Röthel

371: Financing at a Crossroads: How the Global Fund Can Adapt to a Shrinking Aid Landscape

Janeen Keller, Clemence Landers and Rowan Rockafellow

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

368: Geographical Diversification of Vaccine Production: Challenges for Africa and Latin America

William Savedoff

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

362: Financing of Healthcare Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Novel Conceptual Framework

Pete Baker, Katherine Klemperer, Yacine Ndao, Maraki Merid, Cheryl Cashin, Anooj Pattnaik and Ibnou Diaw

361: SDG 1 and Corruption: No Poverty

Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta and Joao Jalles

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

357: The European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus: Maximising the EU Guarantee for Leverage and Impact

Jasper Siegfried, Bernat Adrogué, Tay Drummond, Mikaela Gavas and Laura Granito

356: Unhealthy Subsidies: How Much Do Taxpayers Contribute to Promote Disease?

William Savedoff, Katherine Klemperer and Pete Baker

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

353: The Evolving Global Landscape for Nutrition-Specific Financing: Taking Stock, Moving Forward

Janeen Keller and Rosie Eldridge

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

350: What Does It Mean for Agencies to Be Effective in a Changing Development Landscape?

Rachael Calleja, Sara Bellés and Beata Cichocka