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132: Moving Toward A Consensus on Climate Policy: The Essential Role of Global Public Disclosure

David Wheeler

131: The Pentagon and Global Development: Making Sense of the DoD’s Expanding Role

Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown

130: Reflections on the Macro Foundations of the Middle Class in the Developing World

Nancy Birdsall

129: Generation of Political Priority for Global Health Initiatives: A Framework and Case Study of Maternal Mortality

Jeremy Shiffman and Stephanie Smith

128: How Do the BRICs Stack Up? Adding Brazil, Russia,India, and China to the Environment Component of the Commitment to Development Index

David Roodman

127: How Does Influence-Peddling Impact Industrial Competition? Evidence from Enterprise Surveys in Africa

Vijaya Ramachandran, Manju Kedia Shah and Gaiv Tata

126: Aiding Transparency: What We Can Learn About China ExIm Bank’s Concessional Loans

Paul Hubbard

125: A Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments

David Roodman

124: The Provision of Banking Services in Latin America: Obstacles and Recommendations

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

123: It's One World Out There: The Global Consensus on Selecting the World Bank's Next President

David Wheeler

122: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: A Way to Improve Tuberculosis Detection and Treatment Completion?

Alexandra Beith, Rena Eichler and Diana Weil

121: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Six Years of Results from Supply-Side Programs in Haiti

Rena Eichler, Paul Auxila, Uder Antoine and Bernateau Desmangles

120: Performance-Based Incentives for Health: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Amanda Glassman and Jessica Todd

119: Performance-based Incentives for Health: Demand- and Supply-Side Incentives in the Nicaraguan Red de Protección Social

Ferdinando Regalía and Leslie Castro

118: Income Distribution: Effects on Growth and Development

Nancy Birdsall

117: Cost-Effective Prevention of Diarrheal Diseases: A Critical Review

Michael Kremer and Alix Peterson Zwane

116: What Have IMF Programs With Low-Income Countries Assumed About Aid Flows?

David Goldsbrough and Ben Elberger

115: Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis: An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia

Neil McCulloch, Charles Timmer and Julian Weisbrod

114: Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration

Michael Clemens

113: Do No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions, and the Missing Middle in Africa

Nancy Birdsall

112: Why Doesn't Africa Get More Equity Investment? Frontier Stock Markets, Firm Size and Asset Allocations of Global Emerging Market Funds

Todd Moss, Vijaya Ramachandran and Scott Standley

111: Group Versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines

Dean Karlan and Xavier Gine

110: Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microcredit

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

109: Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Report

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

108: Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts

Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

107: Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions

Dean Karlan and Martín Valdivia

106: Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines*

Dean Karlan, Nava Ashraf and Wesley Yin

105: AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya

Harsha Thirumurthy, Joshua Graff Zivin and Markus Goldstein

104: Why Are There So Few Black-Owned Firms in Africa? Preliminary Results from Enterprise Survey Data

Vijaya Ramachandran and Manju Kedia Shah

103: How to Do xtabond2: An Introduction to "Difference" and "System" GMM in Stata

David Roodman

102: Payments for Progress: A Hands-Off Approach to Foreign Aid

Nancy Birdsall and Owen Barder

101: Microfinance as Business

David Roodman and Uzma Qureshi

100: Artificial States

William Easterly, Alberto Alesina and Janina Matuszeski

99: Beyond the IMF

Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb

98: Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines Working Paper and Spread Sheet

Ruth Levine, Ernst Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Georg Weizsäcker and Heidi Williams

97: A Millennium Learning Goal: Measuring Real Progress in Education

Deon Filmer, Amer Hasan and Lant Pritchett

96: Fragile States and U.S. Foreign Assistance: Show Me the Money

Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown

95: A New Database of Health Professional Emigration from Africa

Michael Clemens and Gunilla Pettersson Gelander

94: Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth

William Easterly, Jozef Ritzan and Michael Woolcock

93: Development, Democracy, and Mass Killings

William Easterly

92: A Primer on Foreign Aid

Steve Radelet

91: A Policymakers' Guide to Dutch Disease

Owen Barder

90: Are the planned increases in aid too much of a good thing?

Owen Barder

89: Competitive Proliferation of Aid Projects: A Model

David Roodman

88: Will Debt Relief Make a Difference? Impact and Expectations of the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative

Todd Moss

87: Privatization: A Summary Assessment

John Nellis

86: The U.S. External Deficit and the Developing Countries

William Cline

85: The Economics of Young Democracies: Policies and Performance

Ethan Kapstein and Nathan Converse

84: Back to the Future for African Infrastructure? Why State-Ownership Is No More Promising the Second Time Around

John Nellis

83: The Role of the IMF in Well-Performing Low-Income Countries

Steve Radelet