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Jun
8
2022
12:00—1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
June 02, 2022
Developing countries have made tremendous progress in reducing poverty in the last fifty years, supported by international cooperation and more open societies and economies. However, in recent years, nationalist and populist movements as well as geopolitical fractures have hindered multilateralism, ...
Apr
16
2020
9:00—10:15 AM ET
April 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens lives, well-being, and economies in low- and middle-income countries. Yet many of the interventions implemented in high-income countries may be ineffective, impractical, or carry heavier consequences in LMIC contexts than they do elsewhere. In communities where most o...
Blog Post
June 05, 2018
While donor countries have poured significant resources into branding aid—emblazing a donor’s flag or aid agency logo on everything from food aid to bridges—the benefits of branding are iffy at best and counterproductive at worst. Studies of its impact tend to pay little attention to how branding af...
Blog Post
August 29, 2016
India’s shift towards direct benefit transfers (DBTs) is on the fast track. According to official statements, in the 2015-16 fiscal year the central government deposited nearly $5 billion of subsidy and welfare payments directly into the bank accounts of 300 million beneficiaries. It has ...