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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

205: Is Climate Finance Towards $100 Billion “New and Additional”?

Ian Mitchell, Euan Ritchie and Atousa Tahmesbei

204: Cost-Effectiveness and Synergies for Emissions Mitigation Projects in Developing Countries

Matt Juden and Ian Mitchell

203: Using Health Taxes to Support Revenue: An Action Agenda for the IMF and World Bank

Chris Lane, Amanda Glassman and Eleni Smitham

202: Evaluating Contraception for Inclusion in Health Benefits Packages: Conceptual Issues and a Proposed Analytical Framework

Rachel Silverman and Julia Kaufman

201: What is the Role of Aid in Middle-Income Countries?

Ranil Dissanyake, Charles Kenny and Mark Plant

200: The Effect of COVID-19 on the Economic Inclusion of Venezuelans in Peru

Martha Ble and Jimmy Graham

199: On the Political Economy Determinants of Tax Reforms: Evidence from Developing Countries

Sanjeev Gupta and Joao Jalles

198: ODA in Turmoil: Why Aid Definitions and Targets Will Come Under Pressure in the Pandemic Age, and What Might be Done About It?

Andrew Rogerson and Euan Ritchie

197: Rising Debt Burdens, The Impact on Public Spending, and the Coronavirus Crisis

Tim Jones

196: The Future of Private Finance for Development in Poor Countries

Nancy Lee and Mauricio Cardenas G.

195: Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Low Income Countries: Where To From Here?

Peter Mullins, Sanjeev Gupta and Jianhong Liu

194: Accelerating Progress of Low-Income Countries Towards the SDGs: Balancing Realism and Ambition in a Post-COVID-19 World

Sudhir Shetty

193: Horizon 2025—End of the Beginning: Development Cooperation in the Pandemic Age

Homi Kharas, Andrew Rogerson and Beata Cichocka

192: Can Better Procurement be the Key to Financing UHC? Potential Savings from Health Sector Procurement Reforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Kalipso Chalkidou, Janeen Keller, A. Over and Alex Jones

191: Institutional and Political Determinants of Statutory Tax Rates: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sanjeev Gupta, Carlos Mulas-Granados, Jianhong Liu, Danial Salman and Kelsey Ross

190: Governing Data for Development: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Michael Pisa, Pam Dixon, Benno Ndulu and Ugonma Nwankwo

189: The Effect of COVID-19 on the Economic Inclusion of Venezuelans in Colombia

Jimmy Graham and Martha Ble

188b: Official Development Assistance, Global Public Goods, and Implications for Climate Finance

Charles Kenny

188a: COVID-19 in Pakistan: A Phone Survey to Assess Education, Economic, and Health-Related Outcomes

Maryam Akmal, Lee Crawfurd, Susannah Hares and Ana Minardi

187: Developing Country Trade Access after Brexit: The UK’s Plans for the Generalized System of Preferences

L. Winters, Mattia Di Ubaldo, Max Mendez-Parra, Lee Robinson and Ian Mitchell

186: A Fiscal Policy Dashboard for Low-Income Economies

Jean-Luc Schneider

185: From Overall Fiscal Space to Budgetary Space for Health: Connecting Public Financial Management to Resource Mobilization in the Era of COVID-19

Hélène Barroy and Sanjeev Gupta

184: Inclusive Coordination: Building an Area-Based Humanitarian Coordination Model

Jeremy Konyndyk, Patrick Saez and Rose Worden

183: COVID-19 Vaccine Predictions: Using Mathematical Modelling and Expert Opinions to Estimate Timelines and Probabilities of Success of COVID-19 Vaccines

Anthony McDonnell, Robert Exan, Steve Lloyd, Laura Subramanian, Kalipso Chalkidou, Adrian La Porta, Jiabin Li, Eddine Maiza, David Reader, Julie Rosenberg, Jack Scannell, Vaughan Thomas, Rebecca Weintraub and Prashant Yadav

182: Private Sector Climate Finance After the Crisis

Alexander Lehmann

181: Digital Technology in Social Assistance Transfers for COVID-19 Relief: Lessons from Selected Cases

Alan Gelb and Anit Mukherjee

180: Medium-Term Revenue Strategies: Are They Realistic for Developing Countries?

Peter Mullins

179: China’s Aid from the Bottom Up: Recipient Country Reporting on Chinese Development Cooperation Flows

Jonathan Glennie, Peter Grinsted and Hannah Ryder

178: Locked Down and Left Behind: The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees’ Economic Inclusion

Helen Dempster, Thomas Ginn, Jimmy Graham, Martha Ble, Daphne Jaysainghe and Barri Shorey

177: Beyond COVID-19: A Whole of Health Look at Impacts During the Pandemic Response

Y-Ling Chi, Lydia Regan, Cassie Nemzoff, Carleigh Krubiner, Yasmine Anwar and Damian Walker

176: Aid-Financed Mechanisms for Technology Development

Lee Robinson, Euan Ritchie and Charles Kenny

175b: Tax Revenue Reforms and Income Distribution in Developing Countries

Maryam Akmal, Sanjeev Gupta and Joao Jalles

175a: Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 School Closures: Insights from Frontline Organizations

Maryam Akmal, Susannah Hares and Megan O’Donnell

174: How to Prioritize Early Childhood? A Note on the Recent Experience in Colombia

Mauricio Cardenas and Ana Cadena

173: Migrant Workers in the Tourism Industry: How has COVID-19 Affected Them, and What Does the Future Hold?

Helen Dempster and Cassandra Zimmer

172: Managing Fiscal Challenges in Contemporary Papua New Guinea

Satish Chand, Junaid Masood and Vijaya Ramachandran

171: Coordinating for Impact: Ideas to Advance DFC’s Interagency Engagement

Clemence Landers, Sarah Rose and Jocilyn Estes

170: Chinese and World Bank Lending Terms: A Systematic Comparison Across 157 Countries and 15 Years

Scott Morris, Brad Parks and Alysha Gardner

169: Actually Navigating by Judgment: Towards a New Paradigm of Donor Accountability Where the Current System Doesn’t Work

Dan Honig

168: The Index Ecosystem and the Commitment to Development Index

Ravi Kanbur

167: Bangladesh: Impediments to Enhanced Revenue Mobilization and Equitable and Efficient Spending

Ahsan Mansur

166: International Taxation and Developing Countries

Peter Mullins

165b: Senegal: Making Domestic Resource Mobilization Work to Sustain Growth and Improve Service Delivery

Birahim Niang and Ahmadou Mbaye

165a: A First Step to Revive the Rules-Based Trading System

Kimberly Elliott

164: Sugar, Rum, and Tobacco: Domestic Resource Mobilization for Low-Income Countries through Excise Taxes

William Savedoff and Ruth Lopert

163: Constraints to Enhanced Revenue Mobilization and Spending Quality in Kenya

Nelson Wawire

162: Nigeria’s Low Tax Collection and Poor Quality of Government Expenditure: Political and Administrative Impediments to Improvement

Festus Egwaikhide