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255: Migration as a Tool for Disaster Recovery: A Case Study on U.S. Policy Options for Post-Earthquake Haiti

Royce Bernstein Murray and Sarah Petrin Williamson

254: New SME Financial Access Initiatives: Private Foundations’ Path to Donor Partnerships

Ben Leo

253: Cash at Your Fingertips: Biometric Technology for Transfers in Developing and Resource-Rich Countries

Alan Gelb and Caroline Decker

252: The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge and Global Health

Ursula Casabonne and Charles Kenny

251: Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics

Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig and Darryl McLeod

250: The Future of Development Finance

Nemat Shafik

249: Toward Results-Based Social Policy Design and Implementation

Miguel Szekely

248: Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods

Nancy Birdsall and Benjamin Leo

247: TrAid+ Channeling Development Assistance to Results

Alex Ergo and Ingo Puhl

246: IDA at 65: Heading Toward Retirement or a Fragile Lease on Life?

Todd Moss and Ben Leo

245: A Green Venture Fund to Finance Clean Technology for Developing Countries

Darius Nassiry and David Wheeler

244: The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis

Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama

243: Failed States, Vicious Cycles, and a Proposal

Raghuram Rajan

242: West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007-2008

Jenny Aker, Steven Block, Vijaya Ramachandran and Charles Timmer

241: Getting Real on Trade with Pakistan: Duty-Free Market Access as Development Policy

Kimberly Elliott and Caroline Decker

240: Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Adaptation Assistance

David Wheeler

239: Antiretroviral Therapy Awareness and Risky Sexual Behaviors: Evidence from Mozambique

Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga and Arthur Over

238: Food Crisis, Household Welfare, and HIV/AIDS Treatment: Evidence from Mozambique

Damien de Walque, Harounan Kazianga, Arthur Over and Julia Vaillant

237: Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers

Todd Moss

236: Learning about Schools in Development

Charles Kenny

235: Global Prospects for Utility-Scale Solar Power: Toward Spatially Explicit Modeling of Renewable Energy Systems

Kevin Ummel

234: Capability Traps? The Mechanisms of Persistent Implementation Failure

Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and Matt Andrews

233: Sudan Debt Dynamics: Status Quo, Southern Secession, Debt Division, and Oil - A Financial Framework for the Future

Benjamin Leo

232: Confronting the American Divide on Carbon Emissions Regulation

David Wheeler

231: Giving Money Away? The Politics of Direct Distribution in Resource Rich States

Alexandra Gillies

230: China in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Benedicte Vibe Christensen

229: The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries

David Wheeler and Dan Hammer

228: Where Have All the Donors Gone? Scarce Donor Funding for Non-Communicable Diseases

Rachel Nugent and Andrea Feigl

227: How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States? A Proposal for IDA

Alan Gelb

226: Can Donors Be Flexible within Restrictive Budget Systems? Options for Innovative Financing Mechanisms

Benjamin Leo

225: When is the Rigorous Impact Evaluation of Development Projects a Luxury, and When Is It a Necessity?

Michael Clemens and Gabriel Demombynes

224: Aid for Trade: Supporting Trade Preference Reform

Susan Prowse

223: ABC, 123: The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes

Jenny Aker, Christopher Ksoll and Travis Lybbert

222: Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index

Benjamin Leo and Julia Barmeier

221: How Should Oil Exporters Spend Their Rents?

Alan Gelb and Sina Grasmann

220: Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development

Joel Cohen

219: Concentrating Solar Power in China and India: A Spatial Analysis of Technical Potential and the Cost of Deployment

Kevin Ummel

218: The End of ODA (II): The Birth of Hypercollective Action

Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray

217: Bridging the Gap: Improving Clinical Development and the Regulatory Pathways for Health Products for Neglected Diseases

Thomas Bollyky

216: Inside the World Bank’s Black Box Allocation System: How Well Does IDA Allocate Resources to the Neediest and Most Vulnerable Countries?

Benjamin Leo

215: Pulling Agricultural Innovation and the Market Together

Kimberly Elliott

214: Leveraging World Bank Resources for the Poorest: IDA Blended Financing Facility Proposal

Benjamin Leo

213: The Washington Consensus: Assessing a Damaged Brand

Nancy Birdsall

212: The Roots of Global Wage Gaps: Evidence from Randomized Processing of U.S. Visas

Michael Clemens

211: Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa

Jenny Aker and Isaac Mbiti

210: How to Pay “Cash-on-Delivery” for HIV Infections Averted: Two Measurement Approaches and Ten Payout Functions

Timothy Hallett and Arthur Over

209: Financing Food Assistance: Options for the World Food Programme to Save Lives and Dollars

Vijaya Ramachandran, Benjamin Leo and Owen McCarthy

208: Are Borders Barriers? The Impact of International and Internal Ethnic Borders on Agricultural Markets in West Africa

Jenny Aker, Michael Klein, Stephen O’Connell and Muzhe Yang

207: The (Indispensable) Middle Class in Developing Countries; or, The Rich and the Rest, Not the Poor and the Rest

Nancy Birdsall

206: The Costs and Benefits of Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Poor Countries: Who and What Matters

Antoine Bouët, David Laborde Debucquet, Elisa Dienesch and Kimberly Elliott