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  • IDENTIFICATION REVOLUTION
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    IDENTIFICATION REVOLUTION
    ALAN GELB / ANNA DIOFASI / ANNA DIOFASI METZ
    Explores how digital ID systems can drive sustainable development while addressing risks of exclusion, misuse, and inequality. Some 600 million children worldwide do not legally exist. Without verifiable identification, theyand unregistered adultscould face serious difficulties in proving their identity, whether to open a bank account, purchase a SIM card, or cast a vote. Lack ...

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  • FROM DAY ONE
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    FROM DAY ONE
    JOYCE BANDA / CAROLINE LAMBERT
    The case for narrowing the gender gap is well established, and programs seeking to empower women in sub-Saharan Africa have multiplied. Yet a critical piece is missing: a focus on rural girls from zero to 10 years old. Discrimination and social norms that penalize girls and women do not start at adolescence, and by the time girls are 10, it is often too late to undo the damage ...

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  • GLOBAL AGRICULTURE AND THE AMERICAN FARMER
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    GLOBAL AGRICULTURE AND THE AMERICAN FARMER
    KIMBERLY ANN ELLIOT / KIMBERLY ANN ELLIOTT
    The United States is one of the world's largest producers and exporters of a range of agricultural commodities, and the largest provider of foreign assistance, so US policies have big effects on global food security and other global public goods linked to agriculture. But those effects are not always positive, as US support for farmers often comes in forms that distort global m...

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  • RESULTS NOT RECEIPTS
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    RESULTS NOT RECEIPTS
    CHARLES KENNY
    Agency for International Development supported the Afghan Ministry of Public Health to deliver basic healthcare to 90 percent of the population, at a cost of $4.50 a head. The program played a vital role in improving the countrys health; the number of children dying before the age of five dropped by 100,000 a year. But accounting standards at the Ministry of Public Health conce...

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  • WHY FORESTS? WHY NOW?
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    WHY FORESTS? WHY NOW?
    FRANCES SEYMOUR / JONAH BUSCH
    Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our timeaverting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a ...

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  • MILLIONS SAVED
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    MILLIONS SAVED
    AMANDA GLASSMAN / MIRIAM TEMIN
    Authored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Global Health, shows what worksand what doesn'tin global health. In a foreword to the book, Bill Gates says, I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Mil...

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  • GREENPRINT
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    GREENPRINT
    ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN / AADITYA MATTOO
    International cooperation on climate change has floundered. With mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and shifting economic and bargaining power from old CO2 emitters to newwhat Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian call the narrative, adding up, and new world problemsthe wonder is not the current imp...

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  • DUE DILIGENCE
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    DUE DILIGENCE
    DAVID ROODMAN
    The idea that small loans can help poor families build businesses and exit poverty has blossomed into a global movement. The concept has captured the public imagination, drawn in billions of dollars, reached millions of customers, and garnered a Nobel Prize. Radical in its suggestion that the poor are creditworthy and conservative in its insistence on individual accountability,...

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  • THE GOVERNOR'S SOLUTION
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    THE GOVERNOR'S SOLUTION
    TODD MOSS
    Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. The Governor's Solution features his firsthand account (PDF) that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humor, the b...

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  • ACHIEVING AN AIDS TRANSITION
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    ACHIEVING AN AIDS TRANSITION
    MEAD OVER / A. MEAD OVER
    An unprecedented surge in donor support for HIV/AIDS treatment over the last decade has lengthened and improved the lives of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS. But because the rate of new infections outpaces the rate of AIDS-related deaths, the number of people living with AIDSand therefore the number of people needing treatmentis growing faster than the funding needed to...

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  • CASH ON DELIVERY
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    CASH ON DELIVERY
    NANCY BIRDSALL / WILLIAM D. SAVEDOFF / AYAH MAHGOUB / KATHERINE VYBORNY
    Foreign aid has no shortage of critics. Some argue that it undermines development and inherently does more harm than good; others insist that aid must be seriously reformed to work properly. Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes serious reform to make aid work well by forcing accountability, aligning the objectives of funders and recipients, and sharing information about what wor...

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