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60: The Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership: A Murder Mystery

Robin Davies

59: Antibiotics on the Farm: Agriculture’s Role in Drug Resistance

Kimberly Elliott

58: The World Bank at 75

Scott Morris and Madeleine Gleave

57: Benchmarking Supply Chains for Better Performance

Ananth Iyer, Gemma Berenguer, Prashant Yadav and Amanda Glassman

56: The Indonesia-Norway REDD+ Agreement: A Glass Half-Full

Frances Seymour, Nancy Birdsall and William Savedoff

55: Evolution of Finance for REDD+ in the UK: A History and Overview of the UK Government’s Engagement with Forest Finance, with a Focus on Performance- Based Payments for REDD+

Kate Dooley and Charlie Parker

54: When Agglomeration Theory Meets Development Reality: Preliminary Lessons from Twenty World Bank Private Sector Projects

Alan Gelb, Gaiv Tata, Vijaya Ramachandran and Ivan Rossignol

53: Better Hospitals, Better Health Systems: The Urgency of a Hospital Agenda

Maureen Lewis

52: Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountability and Discretion in Four Case Studies

Rita Perakis and William Savedoff

51: Biofuel Policies: Fuel versus Food, Forests, and Climate

Kimberly Elliott

50: The Future of Aid: Building Knowledge Collectively

Ruth Levine and William Savedoff

49: The $138.5 Billion Question: When Does Foreign Aid Work (and When Doesn’t It)?

Jonathan Glennie and Andy Sumner

48: US Support for REDD+: Reflections on the Past and Future Outlook

Michael Wolosin and Donna Lee

47: Should Countries Be More Like Shopping Malls? A Proposal for Service Performance Guarantees for Africa

Alan Gelb, Vijaya Ramachandran and Alice Rossignol

46: Birth Registration, Legal Identity, and the Post-2015 Agenda

Casey Dunning, Alan Gelb and Sneha Raghavan

45: Citizen Voice in a Globalized World

Lawrence MacDonald, Bobby Fishkin and David Witzel

44: Straightening the Measuring Stick: A 14-Point Plan for Reforming the Definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA)

David Roodman

43: Money to the People: Estimates of the Potential Scale of Direct Dividend Payments in Africa

Marcelo Giugale and Nga Thi Viet Nguyen

42: Towards Strong and Stable Capital Markets in Emerging Market Economies

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

41: Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Development Finance: Risks and Opportunities

Alan Gelb, Silvana Tordo, Håvard Halland, Noora Arfaa and Gregory Smith

40: Global Skill Partnerships: A Proposal for Technical Training in a Mobile World

Michael Clemens

39: The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank: Fit for 21st Century Purpose?

Nancy Birdsall

38: Balancing Energy Access and Environmental Goals in Development Finance: The Case of the OPIC Carbon Cap

Todd Moss, Roger Pielke and Morgan Bazilian

37: Regional Public Goods in Finance, Trade, and Infrastructure: An Agenda for Latin America

Guillermo Perry

35: Armageddon or Adolescence? Making Sense of Microfinance’s Recent Travails

David Roodman

34: Illicit Financial Flows and the 2013 Commitment to Development Index

Petr Janský

33: HIV/AIDS Intervention Packages in Five Countries: A Review of Budget Data

Victoria Fan, Denizhan Duran, Rachel Silverman and Amanda Glassman

32: Subsidizing Farmers and Biofuels in Rich Countries: An Incoherent Agenda for Food Security

Kimberly Elliott

31: Grant Performance and Payments at the Global Fund

Victoria Fan, Denizhan Duran, Rachel Silverman and Amanda Glassman

30: Moving Beyond Mines and Mobiles: How Can IFC Add Value in Fragile States?

Charles Kenny

29: The United States: From Multilateral Champion to Handicapped Donor…and Back Again?

Nancy Birdsall and Alexis Sowa

28: Privacy and Biometric ID Systems: An Approach Using Fair Information Practices for Developing Countries

Robert Gellman

27: The Financial Flows of PEPFAR: A Profile

Victoria Fan, Rachel Silverman, Denizhan Duran and Amanda Glassman

26: The Global Partnership for Development: A Review of MDG 8 and Proposals for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Charles Kenny and Sarah Dykstra

25: Measuring Think Tank Performance: An Index of Public Profile

Julia Clark and David Roodman

24: Oil-to-Cash Won't Work Here! Ten Common Objections

Todd Moss and Stephanie Majerowicz

23: An Index of Constructive External Engagement (ICEE)

David Roodman

22: Après la Dette, le Déluge? How a Generous Debt Deal in Paris Could Add to an Aid Flood in Myanmar

David Roodman

21: Four Changes to Trade Rules to Facilitate Climate Change Action

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

20: Performance Lessons from India’s Universal Identification Program

Alan Gelb and Julia Clark

19: Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Maternal and Newborn Health

Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran and Marge Koblinsky

18: What’s Yours Is Mine: New Actors and New Approaches to Asset Recovery in Global Corruption Cases

Andrew Marshall

17: Is My Fair Trade Coffee Really Fair? Trends and Challenges in Fair Trade Certification

Kimberly Elliott

16: Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy

Saugato Datta and Sendhil Mullainathan

15: Mobilizing the Private Sector: Quantity-Performance Instruments for Public Climate Funds

Arunabha Ghosh, Benito Müller, William Pizer and Gernot Wagner

14: Governance of New Global Partnerships: Challenges, Weaknesses, and Lessons

Keith Bezanson and Paul Isenman

13: Economic Assistance in Conflict Zones: Lessons from Afghanistan

Ethan Kapstein and Kamna Kathuria

12: From Schooling Goals to Learning Goals: How Fast Can Student Learning Improve?

Amanda Beatty and Lant Pritchett

11: Publish What You Buy: The Case for Routine Publication of Government Contracts

Charles Kenny and Jonathan Karver

10: Assessing the Quality of Aid for Agriculture

Kimberly Elliott and Edward Collins

9: A Commitment to Vaccination Index: Measuring Government Progress toward Global Immunization

Amanda Glassman, Juan Zoloa and Denizhan Duran

8: The Evolution of India’s UID Program: Lessons Learned and Implications for Other Developing Countries

Frances Zelazny

7: The World Bank and Climate Change: Forever a Big Fish in a Small Pond?

Nancy Birdsall

6: FORMA and fCPR: Accelerating a Performance-Based Payment System for REDD+

Michele de Nevers

5: Ag Aid and Tech Breakthroughs: Pull Funding for Smallholder Productivity

Kimberly Elliott

4: Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?

Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz

3: The Global Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the End of the “Development” Agenda?

Nancy Birdsall

2: Incentives for Life: Cash-on-Delivery Aid for Tobacco Control in Developing Countries

Thomas Bollyky and Amanda Glassman

1: Adaptation Finance: How to Get Out from between a Rock and a Hard Place

Nancy Birdsall and Michele de Nevers