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The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 (Report)

April 2013, Laurence Chandy, Natasha Ledlie and Veronika Penciakova

Era of Big Oil Secrecy is Over

April 24, 2013, Daniel Kaufmann

The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 (Interactive)

April 24, 2013, Laurence Chandy, Natasha Ledlie and Veronika Penciakova

Why Congress Should Care About the International Aid Transparency Initiative

April 17, 2013, George Ingram

The Sprint to the 2015 Development Goals: Reaching the Marginalized with Quality Education and Learning

April 17, 2013

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Transforming Foreign Assistance

April 15, 2013, Rev. David Beckmann, George Ingram and Jim Kolbe

Democracy and Poverty: A Lesson from Mongolia

April 2013, Nyamosor Tuya

Can the Poor Be Organized? Evidence from Rural India

March 2013, Raj M. Desai and Shareen Joshi

The Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services Program on Household Production and Welfare in Uganda

March 2013, Geofrey Okoboi, Annette Kuteesa and Mildred Barungi

The Declaration of the Millennium Development Goals

March 6, 2013, John McArthur

M-Paisa has made a big contribution toward eliminating corruption and theft in Afghanistan’s public sector. It fundamentally changes what it means to be poor.

March 2, 2013, Laurence Chandy, TIME

Own the Goals: What the Millennium Development Goals Have Accomplished

March/April 2013, John McArthur

The United States and Global Development: An Approach in Transition

February 19, 2013

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Clicks into Bricks, Technology into Transformation, and the Fight Against Poverty

February 2013, Laurence Chandy, Kemal Derviş and Steven Rocker

South Sudan: Searching for a Credible Development Path

February 4, 2013, John Mukum Mbaku

How Effective Is the World Bank at Targeting Sub-National Poverty in Africa? A Foray into the Murky World of Geo-Coded Data

February 4, 2013, Laurence Chandy, Natasha Ledlie and Veronika Penciakova

How Education Fits into the Discussions of the UN High-Level Panel: Puzzle Piece Monrovia

February 1, 2013, Allison Anderson and Lauren Greubel

Arab Spring Countries: Beyond Political Upheaval and toward Inclusive Growth

January 31, 2013

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Scaling Up Programs for the Rural Poor: IFAD's Experience, Lessons and Prospects (Phase 2)

January 2013, Arntraud Hartmann, Homi Kharas, Richard Kohl, Johannes F. Linn, Barbara Massler and Cheikh Sourang

Top Priorities for Africa in 2013

January 9, 2013

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A ZEN Approach to Post-2015: Addressing the Range of Perspectives across Asia

January 2013, Douglas H. Brooks, Kaushal Joshi, John McArthur, Changyong Rhee and Guanghua Wan

Discordant Development and Insecurity in Africa

January 2013, Richard Joseph

The Second Obama Administration Should Close Africa's Energy Poverty Gap

January 2013, Stephanie Majerowicz and Todd Moss

Foresight Africa: Top Priorities for the Continent in 2013

January 2013

The Education Link: Why Learning is Central to the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda

December 2012, Anda Adams