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BOOKS
May 28, 2009
Donor spending on global health has surged, yet for many poor people in developing countries even basic prevention and treatment remain elusive. CGD’s newest book, Performance Incentives for Global Health: Potential and Pitfalls, shows how modest payments in cash or kind can get more health from hea...
REPORTS
May 23, 2009
In this CGD report, the Commission on International Migration Data for Development Research and Policy presents their five recommendations to remedy the lack of good data on migration and its effects on development. The recommendations are politically and technically practical and would allow count...
WORKING PAPERS
May 21, 2009
Billions of people depend on rice to survive. During the 2007–08 rice price crisis, the international community increased funding for food aid and governments tried to stabilize their domestic prices—only to further destabilize the world market. In the newest of three CGD working papers on the crisi...
WORKING PAPERS
May 20, 2009
Economists often use instrumental variables to demonstrate a causal relationship between some trait of a country and economic growth. In this new analysis, Samuel Bazzi and Michael Clemens show that a variety of instrumental variables used in top economics journals have severe but hidden limitations...
BOOKS
May 13, 2009
In this timely new book, CGD non-resident fellow Guillermo Perry proposes an innovative risk-management toolkit for multilateral banks to help developing countries become more stable, prosperous, and resilient to external shocks. The book is an important reminder of why the multilaterals must move b...
POLICY MEMOS AND OPEN LETTERS
April 29, 2009
Nandini Oomman, director of CGD's HIV/AIDS Monitor, calls on President-elect Obama to push PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)to release official data on obligations to prime partners, subpartners, and program areas to improve transparency and accountability.