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POLICY PAPERS
June 03, 2015
The single most cost-effective way to save lives in developing countries is in the hands of developing countries themselves: raising tobacco taxes. In fact, raising tobacco taxes is better than cost-effective. It saves lives while increasing revenues and saving poor households money when their membe...
Blog Post
March 27, 2015
“Is learning the only result worth financing in education?” That was the question posed to me at a recent World Bank debate about results-based financing in education. The question is germane because the World Bank has a large program of results-based financing in health a...
CGD in the News
March 10, 2015
Anit Mukherjee is quoted on how India’s 14th Finance Commission report has transformed the fiscal relationship between the Center and States; Jonah Busch is quoted on the report’s incentives for States to protect their forests; and Bill Savedoff and Rita Perakis’ work on results-ba...
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2015
1:00—2:30 PM
March 09, 2015
With all the hype (and criticism) over foreign aid programs that pay for results, what do we really know about how they are being implemented and whether they are effective? In their new paper “Does Results-Based Aid Change Anything? Pecuniary Interests, Attention, Accountability and Dis...