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305: Where Will the World’s Poor Live? An Update on Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion

Andy Sumner

304: CARMA Revisited: An Updated Database of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Power Plants Worldwide

Kevin Ummel

303: A Note on the Middle Class in Latin America

Nancy Birdsall

302: Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India’s Maoist Belt

Devash Kapur, Kishore Gawande and Shanker Satyanath

301: Energy+ Country Performance Ratings 2001–2010

David Wheeler

300: No Longer Poor: Ghana’s New Income Status and Implications of Graduation from IDA

Todd Moss and Stephanie Majerowicz

299: Escaping Capability Traps through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)

Lant Pritchett, Matt Andrews and Michael Woolcock

298: State Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India

Victoria Fan, Anup Karan and Ajay Mahal

297: MDGs 2.0: What Goals, Targets, and Timeframe?

Charles Kenny, Jonathan Karver and Andy Sumner

296: Capital Requirements under Basel III in Latin America: The Cases of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Arturo Galindo and Marielle del Valle

295: Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions

Amanda Glassman, Kate McQueston and Rachel Silverman

294: FCPR–Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics

David Wheeler, Dan Hammer and Robin Kraft

293: The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

Lant Pritchett and Amanda Beatty

292: How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Dean Karlan and John List

291: Value for Money in Malaria Programming: Issues and Opportunities

Paul Wilson and Ya'ir Aizenman

290: How Much Does Natural Resource Extraction Really Diminish National Wealth? The Implications of Discovery

Alan Gelb, Kai Kaiser and Lorena Vinuela

289: Credit at Times of Stress: Latin American Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Carlos Montoro

288: Innovative Financing in Early Recovery: The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund

Jacob Hughes, Amanda Glassman and Walter Gwenigale

287: An Index of the Quality of Official Development Assistance in Health

Amanda Glassman and Denizhan Duran

286: Is There Such a Thing As Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values, and Political Orientations in Latin America

Luis Lopez-Calva, Iamele Rigolini and Florencia Torche

285: Remittances and Rashomon

Randall Akee and Devesh Kapur

284: What’s Wrong with Dodd-Frank 1502? Conflict Minerals, Civilian Livelihoods, and the Unintended Consequences of Western Advocacy

Laura Seay

283: Forest Clearing in the Pantropics: December 2005–August 2011

David Wheeler, Robin Kraft and Dan Hammer

282: From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing

David Wheeler, Dan Hammer and Robin Kraft

281: Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies- A Proposal

Shantayanan Devarajan, Hélène Ehrhart, Tuan Minh Le and Gaël Raballan

280: Economic Dynamics and Forest Clearing: A Spatial Econometric Analysis for Indonesia

David Wheeler, Dan Hammer, Robin Kraft, Susmita Dasgupta and Brian Blankespoor

279: The High Return to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country

Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu and Justin Sandefur

278: More Money or More Development: What Have the MDGs Achieved

Charles Kenny and Andy Sumner

277: A China Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

276: Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India

Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav

275: Cash On Delivery Aid for Health: What Indicators Would Work Best

William Savedoff and Katherine Douglas Martel

274: Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Prices

Samuel Bazzi and Christopher Blattman

273: Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistance

Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz

272: Publishing Construction Contracts as a Tool for Efficiency and Good Governance

Charles Kenny

271: Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?

Tessa Bold, Mwangi Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu and Justin Sandefur

270: Global Health and the New Bottom Billion: What Do Shifts in Global Poverty and the Global Disease Burden Mean for GAVI and the Global Fund?

Amanda Glassman, Denizhan Duran and Andy Sumner

269: Dial “A” for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries

Jenny Aker

268: Zap It to Me: The Short-Term Impacts of a Mobile Cash Transfer Program

Jenny Aker, Rachid Boumnijel, Amanda McClelland and Niall Tierney

267: Unity in Diversity: A Global Consensus on Choosing the IMF’s Managing Director—Evidence from CGD’s Online Survey

David Wheeler

266: Iraq’s Last Window: Diffusing the Risks of a Petro-State

Johnny West

265: The Commanders Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Refining U.S. Military Capabilities in Stability and In-Conflict Development Activities

Gregory Johnson, Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz

264: Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?

Michael Clemens

263: Scholars Who Became Practitioners

Nora Lustig

262: Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What Do We Lose?

Nora Lustig

261: Oil for Uganda – or Ugandans? Can Cash Transfers Prevent the Resource Curse?

Alan Gelb and Stephanie Majerowicz

260: Constraints to Domestic Enterprise Financing in Post-Conflict Liberia

John Gorlorwulu

259: Fair Shares: Crediting Poor Countries for Carbon Mitigation

David Wheeler

258: The Health Systems Funding Platform: Resolving Tensions between the Aid and Development Effectiveness Agendas

Amanda Glassman and William Savedoff

257: Globalization, Wages, and Working Conditions: A Case Study of Cambodian Garment Factories

Arianna Rossi and Raymond Robertson

256: Better Factories Cambodia: An Instrument for Improving Industrial Relations in a Transnational Context

Arianna Rossi and Raymond Robertson