Recent geopolitical challenges have revived the implementation of industrial and innovation policies. Ongoing discussions focus on…
September 2024, Paper. "Many companies offer free access to their technology to encourage outside addon innovation, hoping to later profit…
Background: Provider payment reforms (PPRs) have demonstrated mixed results for improving health system efficiency. Since PPRs require…
Poor entrepreneurs must frequently choose between business investment and children's education. To examine this trade-off, we exploit…
In March 2024, Amin Nasser, president, and CEO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), had just delivered a speech about the future of…
This chapter reviews the extensive literature to date on CCTs for education. Section 2 provides background on the origins and expansion of…
Food environment changes in low- and middle-income countries are increasing diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This paper…
With population aging, national health systems face difficult trade-offs in allocating resources. The World Bank launched the Healthy…
August 31, 2024, Paper: "Physicians are scarce in most low and middle-income countries [LMICs]. In the member countries of the European…
August 2024, Paper: "In the past decade, a new paradigm for fiscal and monetary policy analysis has emerged, combining the canonical macro…