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268: Is There a Better Way to Use Global Reserves?

Mark Plant

267: What’s the Best Way to Bolster the IMF’s Capacity to Lend to Low-Income Countries?

David Andrews

266: Learning from Different Nations' Experiences with COVID-19: Models of Public Inquiry, Methods to Globally Network

Amanda Glassman, Christopher Kirchhoff, Brin Datema and Matthew Hoisch

265: Why and How Development Agencies Facilitate Labor Migration

Helen Dempster and Beza Tesfaye

264: The IMF, Africa, and Climate Change—Making Sense of an Implausible Trilogy

Daniel Citrin and Daouda Sembene

263: Let Them Eat Carbon

Vijaya Ramachandran and Arthur Baker

262: Assessment of Expenditure Choices by Low- and Low- Middle-Income Countries During the Pandemic and Their Impact on SDGs

Sanjeev Gupta and Lucas Sala

260: COVID-19, Long-Term Care, and Migration in Asia

Azusa Sato and Helen Dempster

258: Enhancing the Development Impact of the UK’s Immigration Pathways

Helen Dempster, Jenniffer Dew, Sam Huckstep, Martina Castiglioni and Cassandra Zimmer

257: Beyond India’s Lockdown: PMGKY Benefits During the COVID-19 Crisis and the State of Digital Payments

Alan Gelb, Anurodh Giri, Anit Mukherjee, Ritesh Rautela, Mitul Thapliyal and Brian Webster

256: Opportunities for US–Africa Space Cooperation and Development

Rose Croshier

255: Development Effectiveness in the “New Normal”: What Do the Changing Roles and Purposes of ODA Mean for the Effectiveness Agenda?

Rachael Calleja and Beata Cichocka

254: East Asian Cities: Past Development and Onrushing Challenges

Shahid Yusuf

253: Domestic Revenue Mobilization and Debt Relief: The Lack of Any Link

Mark Plant and Nancy Lee

252: Social Protection in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from South Africa

Lena Gronbach, Jeremy Seekings and Vayda Megannon

250: Greening the US Sovereign Bond Guarantee Program: A Proposal to Boost Climate-Directed Sovereign Finance in Developing Countries

Scott Morris, Rowan Rockafellow and Alan Cameron

249: Country Platforms and Delivery of Global Public Goods

Daouda Sembene, Nancy Lee and Mark Plant

248: IDB COVID-19 Response Projects and Gender Integration

Shelby Bourgault, Kelsey Ross and Megan O’Donnell

247: Two Birds, One Budget: Using ODA for Influence and Development in the Indo-Pacific?

Rachael Calleja, Samuel Hughes and Beata Cichocka

243: Addressing the “Root Causes” of Irregular Migration from Central America: An Evidence Agenda for USAID

Sarah Rose, Reva Resstack, Helen Dempster, Elisa Cascardi and Jeremy Weinstein

242: Who’s Responsible for Climate Change? New Evidence Based on Country-Level Estimates of Climate Debt

Benedict Clements, Sanjeev Gupta and Jianhong Liu

241: Mapping China’s Multilateralism: A Data Survey of China’s Participation in Multilateral Development Institutions and Funds

Scott Morris, Rowan Rockafellow and Sarah Rose

240: Meeting the Global Health Challenge to Reduce Death and Disability from Alcohol, Tobacco, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption with Corrective Taxes

Chris Lane and Vinayak Bhardwaj

239: Navigating the Straits: Pull Financing for Climate and Development Outcomes

Ranil Dissanayake

238: How Do Humanitarian Donors Make Decisions, and What Is the Scope for Change?

Rose Worden and Patrick Saez

237: Translating Results-Based Financing from Theory to Operational Reality: Lessons from the Practical Application of RBF at the European Commission

Rachel Silverman

236: Some Unpleasant ODA Arithmetic

Ranil Dissanayake and Atousa Tahmasebi

235: Are Development Finance Institutions Good Value for Money?

Paddy Carter

233: Valuing Climate Liabilities: Calculating the Cost of Countries’ Historical Damage from Carbon Emissions to Inform Future Climate Finance Commitments

Lee Robinson, Ian Mitchell and Atousa Tahmasebi

232: Effective Humanitarian Governance

Patrick Saez, Jeremy Konyndyk and Rose Worden

230: Convergence, Development, and Energy-Intensive Infrastructure: Getting Africa to High-Income Status

Vijaya Ramachandran

229: Strengthening the Global Care Economy: A Roadmap for the Biden-Harris Administration

Megan O’Donnell, Mayra Buvinic and Shelby Bourgault

228: Operationalizing Climate Adaptation at the US International Development Finance Corporation: The Case for an Agriculture-Led Agenda in Low-Income Countries

Clemence Landers, Jocilyn Estes and Scott Morris

226: How Effectively Is the Asian Development Bank Responding to COVID-19? An Early Assessment

Azusa Sato, Rakan Aboneaaj and Scott Morris

224: Enabling US Government Participation in Pull Mechanisms for Social Impact Innovation: A Survey of Federal Authorities, Budgetary Barriers, and Potential Solutions

Steven Kosiak and Rachel Silverman

223: A Review of Multilateral Development Banks’ Investments in Childcare

Megan O’Donnell, Kelsey Ross and Shelby Bourgault

222: One Year after COVID: The Challenges and Outlook of Chinese Micro and Small Enterprises

Tao Sherry Kong, Xiaohan Yang, Ranran Wang, Zijun Cheng, Changyu Ren, Shuo Liu, Zhenhua Li, Fang Wang, Xiaoyin Ma, Junxing Gu and Xiaobo Zhang

221: Binding Constraints on Digital Financial Inclusion in Indonesia: An Analysis Using the Decision Tree Approach

Firman Witoelar, T Yudo Wicaksono and Carlos Mangunsong

220: Identifying Binding Constraints on Digital Payment Services in Ethiopia: An Application of a Decision Tree Framework

Getnet Alemu, Tadele Ferede and Alejandro Fiorito

219: A Decision Tree for Digital Payment Services: The Case of Mexico

Ivonne Acevedo and Miguel Székely

217: Social Assistance and Information in the Initial Phase of the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons from a Household Survey in India

Alan Gelb, Anurodh Giri, Anit Mukherjee, Kritika Shukla, Mitul Thapliyal and Brian Webster

215: Financing the Humanitarian Public Good: Towards a More Effective Humanitarian Financing Model

Patrick Saez, Jeremy Konyndyk and Rose Worden

214: Improving Performance in the Multilateral Humanitarian System: New Models of Donorship

Patrick Saez, Lewis Sida, Rachel Silverman and Rose Worden

213: A Path to Resiliency: Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Essential Medicines Supply Chains

Anthony McDonnell, Elizabeth Pisani, Somya Singhvi, Kalipso Chalkidou and Prashant Yadav

211: Incentivising Investment in Human Capital through the European Fund for Sustainable Development

Mikaela Gavas and Samuel Pleeck

210: An Analysis of the Binding Constraints on Digital Financial Inclusion in India Using a Decision Tree Methodology

Nandini Harihareswara and Howard Miller

209: Unpacking Gender Gaps and Data Gaps in Public Sector Employment and Pay

Ugonma Nwankwo, Megan O’Donnell and Charles Kenny

208: A Review of the 2X Women’s Initiative: Recommendations for the Biden-Harris Administration

Megan O’Donnell and Jocilyn Estes

207: How Do Development Agencies Support Climate Action?

Rachael Calleja

206: Mobilizing External Financing for Africa’s Crisis Recovery

Daouda Sembene