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Jan
9
2008
12:00—2:00 PM
December 20, 2007
Abstract: It is widely believed that cost-sharing—charging a subsidized, positive price—for a health product is necessary to avoid wasting resources on those who will not use or do not need the product. We explore this argument in the context of a field experiment in Kenya, in which we randomized th...
Dec
18
2007
12:00—1:00 PM
December 10, 2007
The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development. A book just published ...
Dec
14
2007
12:00—2:00 PM
December 06, 2007
President Kikwete will offer his perspective on infrastructure obstacles to growth in Tanzania, including how the donor community, private sector, and African governments can work together to find new and innovative ways to bring power and roads to Africa. The president’s remarks will be followed by...
Dec
17
2007
12:30—2:00 PM
December 05, 2007
Abstract: This paper argues that there are two major factors underlying improved global health outcomes. These are, first, the discovery of cheap (and some free) technologies that can dramatically improve health outcomes and, second, the adoption of these technologies thanks to the spread of knowle...
Dec
11
2007
12:30—1:30 PM
December 04, 2007
Abstract: Analyses of how coveted central government resources in Africa are transferred to different regions within a country have shown widespread patronage, ethnic cronyism and pork barrel politics. Politics as the basis of relative development between tribes, classes and geographic regions elici...
Dec
4
2007
12:00—1:30 PM
November 20, 2007
Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early childhood nutrition on education in developing countries by using unique longitudinal data begun during a nu...
Dec
3
2007
10:30—12:00 PM
November 19, 2007
Access to financial services in Latin America remains low and has improved little in recent years, despite a favorable international financial climate, sound macroeconomic policies and ample liquidity in most countries. Why hasn't the sharp decline in regional interest rates increased the use of fin...
Nov
28
2007
2:00—4:00 PM
November 16, 2007
"Governance Matters: Debunking the Afro-pessimism Myth” will use the recent update of the World Bank Institute's (WBI) well-known global governance indicators (www.govindicators.org) to spark a policy discussion about measuring governance, policy actions to improve governance, and whether "afro-pess...
Nov
29
2007
2:00—4:00 PM
November 14, 2007
On December 12th, the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will announce which countries will be eligible to apply for funding in 2008. With funding tight, new countries passing the eligibility indicators test, nine of sixteen countries with signed MCC compacts failing the indicators test, an...
Nov
15
2007
3:30—5:00 PM
November 12, 2007
His Eminence, Sa'ad Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto, is the spiritual heir to the leadership of the Sokoto Caliphate in Nigeria. As such, he is also the president of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, and formal leader of Nigeria's 70 million Muslims, roughly 50 percent of the nation's...