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Policy Research Reports
新澳彩开奖's Policy Research Report series brings to a broad audience the results of 新澳彩开奖 research on development policy. The reports are designed to contribute to the debate on appropriate public policies for developing economies.
Resilient Development: Accelerating Climate Resilience of Households, Farmers, and Firms
This forthcoming report on Resilient Development focuses on enhancing resilience to climate shocks in low- and middle-income countries, targeting households, farms, and firms. It builds a micro-foundation for understanding adaptation behaviors under severe climate uncertainty, offering new insights and policy recommendations to boost climate resilience, including behavioral changes, financial instruments, and social protection strategies.
Improving Effective Coverage in Health: Do Financial Incentives Work? (2022)
In many low-and-middle income countries, health coverage has improved dramatically in the last two decades, but health outcomes have not. As such, effective coverage—a measure of service delivery that meets a minimum standard of quality—remains unacceptably low. This forthcoming Policy Research Report examines one specific policy approach to improving effective coverage: financial incentives in the form of performance-based financing (PBF), a package reform that typically includes performance pay to frontline health workers as well as facility autonomy, transparency, and community engagement.
Violence without Borders: The Internationalization of Crime and Conflict (2020)
This report documents how permeable country borders have become in many different domains, and the troubling human and economic costs. Because political stability and law enforcement are, increasingly, global public goods, this provides a rationale for greater international assistance to countries facing fiscal and technical constraints that prevent them from providing stability and the rule of law.
Moving for Prosperity: Global Migration and Labor Markets (2018)
The search for better employment opportunities and wages is the key mechanism by which the majority of the world’s population, and especially the poor, can hope to improve their lives. Migration is therefore an essential path toward worldwide poverty eradication and economic growth. This Policy Research Report examines the determinants and labor market impacts of global migration patterns, and considers the impact on destination and source countries, as well as the migrants themselves.
Making Politics Work for Development: Harnessing Transparency and Citizen Engagement (2016)
The forces of transparency and citizen political engagement are on the rise, and together hold the potential to make politics work for rather than against economic development.
A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals (2014)
This report lays out the conceptual underpinnings of the 新澳彩开奖's twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity, and proposes empirical approaches to tracking this progress.
Localizing Development: Has the Participatory Approach Worked? (2012)
This report examines the conceptual foundations of the participatory approach to local development, assesses the evidence of its efficacy, and draws key lessons for policy.- This report argues that CCTs have been an effective way to redistribute income to the poor, while recognizing that even the best-designed and best-managed program cannot fulfill all of the needs of a comprehensive social protection system.
- This report calls for broader access to finance, saying that access to finance for all is associated with growth as well as with reduction in poverty and income inequality.
- This report highlights that preserving rapidly shrinking tropical forests and improving economic prospects for millions of poor people requires better national forest governance.
- This report recommended directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance.
- This report said that strengthening poor people's land rights and easing barriers to land transactions can set in motion a wide range of social and economic benefits.
- This report challenged the belief that civil wars are inevitable and proposed an agenda for global action.
- This report noted that globalization has helped reduce poverty in a large number of developing countries but it must be harnessed better to help the world’s poorest, most marginalized countries improve the lives of their citizens.
- This report demonstrated that a sound financial sector is a critical ingredient for poverty-reducing economic growth.
- This report focused on gender issues and their broad economic and social implications in developing and transitional countries.
- This report analyzes both the political and economic benefits of regional trade blocs.
- This report showed how recent economic and regulatory policy reforms are reducing industrial pollution in developing countries, without threatening economic growth.
- This report summarizes the findings of a multi-year research program on aid effectiveness.
