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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

148: Steps Toward Forest Landscape Restoration in The Context of The Rohingya Influx: Creating Opportunities to Advance Environmental, Humanitarian, and Development Progress in Bangladesh

Heather Tallis, Cindy Huang, John Herbohn, Karen Holl, Sharif Mukul and Kam Morshed

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

146: Developing a More Inclusive US Trade Policy at Home and Abroad

Kimberly Elliott

145: Imagining the Alternative Worlds of 2030: Policy Implications for the Future of Global Health Procurement

Janeen Keller and William Savedoff

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

138: Governing Big Tech’s Pursuit of the “Next Billion Users”

Michael Pisa and John Polcari

137: The Two Hundred Billion Dollar Question: How to Get the Biggest Impact from the 2019 Replenishments

Andrew Rogerson and Owen Barder

136: The EU’s Financial Architecture for External Investment: Progress, Challenges, and Options

Mikaela Gavas and Hannah Timmis

135: Examining World Bank Lending to China: Graduation or Modulation?

Scott Morris and Gailyn Portelance

134: UK Aid Quality Indicators

Caitlin McKee, Ian Mitchell and Arthur Baker

133: Development Impact Bonds Targeting Health Outcomes

Lorcan Clarke, Kalipso Chalkidou and Cassandra Nemzoff

132: Should Developing Countries Sign the OECD Multilateral Instrument to Address Treaty-Related Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Measures?

Annet Oguttu

131: Trusted Digital Identity Provision: GOV.UK Verify’s Federated Approach

Edgar Whitley

130: Energy Dividends in Bolivia: Are There Any Alternatives to Price Subsidies?

Roberto Laserna

129: What Are We Getting from Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Coffee?

Kimberly Elliott

128: What Mining Can Learn from Oil: A Study of Special Transfer Pricing Practices in the Oil Sector, and their Potential Application to Hard Rock Minerals

Alexandra Readhead

127: Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: Proposed Governance Arrangements for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility

Michele de Nevers, Patricia Bliss-Guest, Kenneth Lay and Michael Wolosin

126: Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: Proposed Financing Strategy for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility

Kenneth Lay, Michele de Nevers, Michael Wolosin and Patricia Bliss-Guest

125: Creating a Multilateral Wealth Fund for a Global Public Good: A Proposal for a Tropical Forest Finance Facility

Michele de Nevers, Kenneth Lay, Michael Wolosin and Patricia Bliss-Guest

124: Atoms for Africa: Is There a Future for Civil Nuclear Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Abigail Sah, Jessica Lovering, Omaro Maseli and Aishwarya Saxena

123: Illicit Financial Flows, Trade Misinvoicing, and Multinational Tax Avoidance: The Same or Different?

Maya Forstater

122: Perspective in Economic Evaluations of Healthcare Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: One Size Does Not Fit All

Kalipso Chalkidou, Anthony Culyer and Cassandra Nemzoff

121: Examining the Debt Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative from a Policy Perspective

John Hurley, Scott Morris and Gailyn Portelance

120: What Can We Learn about Energy Access and Demand from Mobile-Phone Surveys? Nine Findings from Twelve African Countries

Ben Leo, Jared Kalow and Todd Moss

119: Deterring Emigration with Foreign Aid: An Overview of Evidence from Low-Income Countries

Michael Clemens and Hannah Postel

118: Tax and Development: New Frontiers of Research and Action

Maya Forstater

117: Structuring and Funding Development Impact Bonds for Health: Nine Lessons from Cameroon and Beyond

Roxanne Oroxom, Amanda Glassman and Lachlan McDonald

116: Comparing Five Bilateral Development Finance Institutions and the IFC

Charles Kenny, Jared Kalow, Ben Leo and Vijaya Ramachandran

115: Inside the Portfolio of the International Finance Corporation: Does IFC Do Enough in Low-Income Countries?

Charles Kenny, Jared Kalow and Vijaya Ramachandran

114: Fuel Subsidy Reform in Developing Countries: Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG Cooking Gas Subsidy in India

Neeraj Mittal, Anit Mukherjee and Alan Gelb

113: Working Itself Out of a Job: USAID and Smart Strategic Transitions

Sarah Rose, Erin Collinson and Jared Kalow

112: Leveraging the Links between Migration and Development: US Government Policy, Practice, and Potential

Kathleen Newland

111: When Do Subsidy Reforms Stick? Lessons from Iran, Nigeria, and India

Priscilla Atansah, Masoomeh Khandan, Todd Moss, Anit Mukherjee and Jennifer Richmond