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1. The IMF, Africa, and Climate Change—Making Sense of an Implausible Trilogy

2. Social Protection in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from South Africa

3. Stuck Near Ten Billion: Public-Private Infrastructure Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa

4. Convergence, Development, and Energy-Intensive Infrastructure: Getting Africa to High-Income Status

5. Expanding Legal Migration Pathways from Nigeria to Europe: From Brain Drain to Brain Gain

6. Identifying Binding Constraints on Digital Payment Services in Ethiopia: An Application of a Decision Tree Framework

7. Learning Equity Requires More than Equality: Learning Goals and Achievement Gaps between the Rich and the Poor in Five Developing Countries

8. Why “Leapfrogging” in Frontier Markets Isn’t Working

9. Transforming the Institutional Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa: Considerations for Leveraging Africa’s Research Capacity to Achieve Socioeconomic Development

10. Fuel Subsidy Reform and Green Taxes: Can Digital Technologies Improve State Capacity and Effectiveness?

11. Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships

12. The Political Economy of Testing in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

13. Multilingual Assessment of Early Child Development: Analyses from Repeated Observations of Children in Kenya

14. Ethnic Politics and Ebola Response in West Africa

15. Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths

16. The Face of African Infrastructure: Service Availability and Citizens' Demands

17. The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies to Expand Treatment to HIV-Positive South Africans: Scale Economies and Outreach Costs

18. Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa

19. Why Maintaining Tropical Forests Is Essential and Urgent for a Stable Climate

20. To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

21. The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey Administrative Statistics

22. Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

23. Stunted Growth: Why Don't African Firms Create More Jobs?

24. Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa's Missing Middle

25. Planning for Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power in South Africa: Identifying Cost-Effective Deployment Strategies Using Spatiotemporal Modeling

26. The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy

27. Is Anyone Listening? Does US Foreign Assistance Target People's Top Priorities?

28. What's Wrong with Dodd-Frank 1502? Conflict Minerals, Civilian Livelihoods, and the Unintended Consequences of Western Advocacy

29. Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development

30. The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

31. Energizing Rio+20: How the United States Can Promote Sustainable Energy for All at the 2012 Earth Summit

32. Supporting Private Business Growth in African Fragile States: A Guiding Framework for the World Bank Group in South Sudan and Other Nations

33. No Longer Poor: Ghana's New Income Status and Implications of Graduation from IDA

34. Zap It to Me: The Short-Term Impacts of a Mobile Cash Transfer Program

35. Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?

36. Direct Redistribution, Taxation, and Accountability in Oil-Rich Economies: A Proposal

37. Oil for Uganda – or Ugandans? Can Cash Transfers Prevent the Resource Curse?

38. Constraints to Domestic Enterprise Financing in Post-Conflict Liberia

39. West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007–2008

40. Antiretroviral Therapy Awareness and Risky Sexual Behaviors: Evidence from Mozambique

41. Food Crisis, Household Welfare, and HIV/AIDS Treatment: Evidence from Mozambique

42. IDA at 65: Heading Toward Retirement or a Fragile Lease on Life?

43. Peace-Building without External Assistance: Lessons from Somaliland

44. Are Borders Barriers? The Impact of International and Internal Ethnic Borders on Agricultural Markets in West Africa

45. Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa

46. Leveraging World Bank Resources for the Poorest: IDA Blended Financing Facility Proposal

47. Who Are the MDG Trailblazers? A New MDG Progress Index

48. When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages

49. Sudan Debt Dynamics: Status Quo, Southern Secession, Debt Division, and Oil–A Financial Framework for the Future

50. Not Just Aid: How Making Government Work Can Transform Africa