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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

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

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

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

Charles Kenny

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

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

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

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

Maryam Akmal, Susannah Hares and Megan O’Donnell

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

Helen Dempster and Cassandra Zimmer

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

166: International Taxation and Developing Countries

Peter Mullins

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

William Savedoff and Ruth Lopert

160: Lending Terms for IFAD Projects

Scott Morris and Jessie Lu

159: Ecological Fiscal Transfers and Subnational Budgets: Did Forest-Based Fiscal Devolution Lead Indian States to Increase Forestry Expenditure?

Jonah Busch, Avani Kapur and Anit Mukherjee

158: Can the US Development Finance Corporation Compete?

Charles Kenny

157: Five Principles for Use of Aid in Subsidies to the Private Sector

Charles Kenny

156: Marginal, Not Transformational: Development Finance Institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals

Charles Kenny

155: People-Driven Response: Power and Participation in Humanitarian Action

Jeremy Konyndyk and Rose Worden

154: Digital Technology and State Capacity in Kenya

Njuguna Ndung’u

153: “Contractors or Collectives?” Earmarked Funding of Multilaterals, Donor Needs and Institutional Integrity: The World Bank as a Case Study

Owen Barder, Euan Ritchie and Andrew Rogerson

152: UK Research Aid: Tied, Opaque and Off-Topic?

Lee Robinson, Euan Ritchie and Charles Kenny

151: Trends in Private Capital Flows to Low-Income Countries: Good and Not-So-Good News

Nancy Lee and Asad Sami

150: Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships

Michael Clemens, Helen Dempster and Katelyn Gough

149: Fuel Subsidy Reform and Green Taxes: Can Digital Technologies Improve State Capacity and Effectiveness?

Alan Gelb and Anit Mukherjee

147: Transforming the Institutional Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for Leveraging Africa’s Research Capacity to Achieve Socioeconomic Development

Alex Ezeh and Jessie Lu

144: Public Financial Management and the Digitalization of Payments

Marco Cangiano, Alan Gelb and Ruth Goodwin-Groen

143: Does the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Help or Hinder Financial Inclusion? A Study of FATF Mutual Evaluation Reports

Michael Pisa

142: The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project

Scott Morris

141: Downsizing Defense in Development: Unpacking DOD’s Development Assistance

Sarah Rose

140: The Quality of UK Aid Spending, 2011–2018: An Analysis of Evaluations by the Independent Commission on Aid Impact

Ian Mitchell and Arthur Baker

139: Improving Global Health Supply Chains through Traceability

Michael Pisa and Denise McCurdy