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- Brazil
  
  People
  
  Population 191.6 mln
  
  Population growth 1%
  
  Life expectancy 72 years
  
  Net migration -229,000
  
  Economy
  
  GDP $1313.36 bln
  
  - per capita $6,855
  
  - growth rate 5%
  
  FDI, net inflows $34.58 bln
  
  Infrastructure
  
  Cellphone users 63%
  
  Internet users 35%
  
  High-tech exports 12%
  
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Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?

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Since the 2010 earthquake, almost $6 billion has been disbursed in official aid to Haiti, a country with a population of just under 10 million. An estimated $3 billion has been donated to NGOs in private contributions in addition to official aid. The United States Government alone has disbursed almost $2 billion of this total amount and has pledged over $3 billion for relief and reconstruction.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 15, 2012

The Global Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the End of the “Development” Agenda?

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In this paper, Nancy Birdsall discusses two themes. The first is the pre-crisis subtle shift in the prevailing model of capitalism in developing countries—away from orthodoxy or so-called market fundamentalism—that the crisis is likely to reinforce. The second theme is better framed as a question than a prediction: will the financial crisis, which is likely to be remembered as marking the end of Western economic dominance, be a trigger for a new twenty-first-century approach to collective more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 08, 2012

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

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Amid debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or merely symptomatic of deeper, ingrained disadvantage, this paper aggregates recent quantitative evidence on the socioeconomic consequences of and methods to reduce of teenage pregnancy in the developing world.Overall, the authors find insufficient empirical evidence to suggest that adolescent fertility per se represents a major development problem since the socioeconomic outcomes of those affected by adolescent more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 09, 2012

Forest Conservation Performance Rating for the Pan-Tropics

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This note introduces and illustrates fCPR (Forest Conservation Performance Rating), a system of color-coded ratings for tropical forest conservation performance that can be implemented for local areas, countries, regions, and the entire pan-tropics. The ratings reward tropical forest conservation in three dimensions: (1) exceeding expectations, given an area’s forest clearing history and development status; (2) meeting or exceeding global REDD+ goals; and (3) achieving an immediate reduction in more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 07, 2012

The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

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Lant Pritchett and Amanda Beatty argue that many education systems are attempting to push children through curricular material faster than their teachers can teach it and their students can learn it. Students fall behind and eventually stop learning. The authors provide a formal model of this phenomenon and provide empirical evidence on its implications.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 19, 2012

UNAIDS Faces Major Challenges in Fight against AIDS in Poor Countries as Economic Crisis Grows

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The global economic crisis has heightened the challenges for UNAIDS in ensuring that UN agencies adequately support governments of countries severely affected by HIV, and in holding rich countries to their financial commitments for the effort, according to a co-author of a new report on the agency.

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Sonia Hossain on June 17, 2009

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

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The reasons why people give to charities vary from individual to individual, but it is clear that large, public gifts to a charity from well-known donors increase the number and size of smaller individual gifts. In this working paper, Dean Karlan and John A. List posit that the effect has to do with overcoming the asymmetry of knowledge about the quality of the charity; they test their model in two natural field experiments in partnership with TechnoServe, a charity focused on international more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 19, 2012

Energizing Rio+20: How the United States Can Promote Sustainable Energy for All at the 2012 Earth Summit

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In this report, visiting senior associate Nigel Purvis and co-author Abigail Jones show how the United States can help with global efforts to expand access to clean energy and reduce the number of people without access to modern energy while advancing global climate-protection goals. Their policy recommendations focus on catalyzing skills and investment from the private sector to help eradicate energy poverty and expand clean energy solutions.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 17, 2012

Value for Money in Malaria Programming: Issues and Opportunities

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In this paper, Paul Wilson and Ya’ir Aizenman examine opportunities for value for money in malaria control, extensively analyzing the effectiveness of interventions and current trends in spending. The authors conclude that on the whole resources for malaria control are well spent, but also note some areas where meaningful efficiencies might be possible, including (i) improving procurement procedures for bed nets, (ii) developing efficient ways to replace bed nets as they wear out, (iii) more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 18, 2012

Incentives for Life: Cash-on-Delivery Aid for Tobacco Control in Developing Countries

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In this joint report, Thomas J. Bollyky, CFR senior fellow for global health, economics, and development, and Amanda Glassman, director of global health policy at the Center for Global Development, propose applying Cash-on-Delivery (COD) Aid as a new incentive mechanism for tobacco control in low- and middle-income countries. The authors discuss identifying the right indicator of progress, country, reward, and funders for such a model, as well as a potential COD Aid pilot project in Uttar more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 17, 2012

Supporting Private Business Growth in African Fragile States: A Guiding Framework for the World Bank Group in South Sudan and Other Nations

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In this report, Benjamin Leo, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Ross Thuotte assess the bank’s private-sector interventions in African fragile states. They summarize and analyze project-level data from IDA, IFC, and MIGA, and introduce a new framework to assist in the design and implementation of projects in fragile states.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 12, 2012

The Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment 2009: Is Aid Quality Improving?

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This report presents the results of the second edition of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) assessment, with a focus on the changes that have occurred in donor performance since the first edition (2008). The new results (based on 2009 data) were released in summary form in November 2011, just before the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea.QuODA is a quantitative assessment and ranking of donors’ performance according to four dimensions of aid more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 04, 2012

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

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The financial systems in emerging market economies performed much better during the 2008–09 global financial crisis during previous crises, albeit with significant differences across regions. Real credit growth, for example, was less affected in Asia and Latin America than in Central and Eastern Europe.This paper identifies the factors that contributed to real credit growth in Latin America during the global financial crisis. The authors find that this resilience was highly related to policies more...

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Moushumi Biswas on February 26, 2012

Preventing Odious Obligations: A New Tool to Pressure Syria’s Bashar Assad

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Countries that throw off a repressive dictator are too often left saddled with illegitimate and odious obligations. To maintain access to international credit markets, legitimate successor governments must honor these debts and comply with other contracts negotiated by dictator, even if the proceeds were stolen or used to violently repress opposition.

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Moushumi Biswas on March 14, 2012

Why is opening the U.S. market to poor countries so hard?

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The rhetorical link between trade and development is strong, but the reality leaves something to be desired. On paper, the world’s poorest countries receive preferential access to the U.S. market; in practice, many do not. The United States is rightly praised for giving Haiti preferential access for most of its exports and for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which provides eligible poor countries duty-free access for everything but sugar, peanuts, and a few other products. But more...

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D C on January 12, 2012

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