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77: Do the Results Match the Rhetoric? An Examination of World Bank Gender Projects

Charles Kenny and Megan O’Donnell

76: Anti-Corruption Strategies in Foreign Aid: From Controls to Results

William Savedoff

75: Assessing the US Feed the Future Initiative: A New Approach to Food Security?

Kimberly Elliott and Casey Dunning

74: Balancing Financial Integrity with Financial Inclusion: The Risk-Based Approach to “Know Your Customer”

Alan Gelb

73: Alternatives to HIPC for African Debt-Distressed Countries: Lessons from Myanmar, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe

Tendai Biti, Benjamin Leo, Scott Morris and Todd Moss

72: How the Green Climate Fund Could Promote REDD+ through a Cash on Delivery Instrument: Issues and Options

William Savedoff

71: The Role of Industrial Policy as a Development Tool: New Evidence from the Globalization of Trade-and-Investment

Theodore Moran

70: Payment System Regulation for Improving Financial Inclusion

Maria Malaguti

69: Can Stopping 'Tax Dodging' by Multinational Enterprises Close the Gap in Development Finance?

Maya Forstater

68: Missed Opportunities in Global Health: Identifying New Strategies to Improve Mental Health in LMICs

Victoria de Menil

67: SkyShares: Modelling the Economic Implications of a Future Global Emissions Budget

Owen Barder, Alex Evans and Alice Lépissier

66: Finding Cash for Infrastructure in Addis: Blending, Lending and Guarantees in Finance for Development

Charles Kenny

65: Enabling Digital Financial Inclusion through Improvements in Competition and Interoperability: What Works and What Doesn't?

Marc Bourreau and Tommaso Valletti

64: Indonesia’s Missing Millions: Erasing Discrimination in Birth Certification in Indonesia

Cate Sumner

63: Technology, Development, and the Post-2015 Settlement

Charles Kenny and Owen Barder

62: The Single Best Health Policy in the World: Tobacco Taxes

William Savedoff and Albert Alwang

61: Basel III in Chile: Advantages, Disadvantages and Challenges of Implementing the New International Standard for Bank Capital (English and Spanish Versions)

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

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