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Mapping 500+ Development Banks

The Institute of New Structural Economics (INSE) at Peking University and the Agence française de développement (AFD) are collaborating to build the first comprehensive database on public development...

From Multi- to National- and Back Again: Realizing the SDG Potential of Public Development Banks

Public multilateral (MDBs) and national development banks (NDBs) are already working to advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But can they do more to help deliver finance at the righ...

The allocation of resources of national development banks

Public financial institutions and National Development Banks (NDBs) in particular are well suited to fill financing gaps in un- or under- served markets. By virtue of their developmental mandate, and...

The Impact of Climate Variability on Inequality: Evidence from Vietnam

Climate instability in Vietnam leads to reduced incomes and greater inequality, especially in areas most affected by climatic events related to El Nino, such as the Central Highlands, Southeast and Me...

Distributional Effects of Healthcare Spending: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Zambia

The distribution of both public healthcare spending and overall healthcare spending has become increasingly egalitarian in Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Zambia, according to a new study. Nevertheless, the...

Assessing Inequalities in Healthcare Spending in Burkina Faso, Malawi, and Zambia: Data and Methods

A new study examines the distributional incidence of healthcare spending in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the techniques used to conduct the analysis will help key decisions on...

Inequalities in Healthcare Spending on Curative Services: Evidence from Burkina Faso

How public and overall health spending on curative health services have become more egalitarian as Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policies have been rolled out in Burkina Faso? Over time, increased e...

Inequalities in Healthcare Spending on Curative Services: Evidence from Malawi

Both public spending and overall spending on curative services have become more egalitarian in Malawi with the rollout of Universal Health Coverage policies across the country. The findings reveal inc...

Inequalities in Maternal Healthcare Spending: Evidence from Malawi

As policies targeting universal maternal care have been rolled out, has public and overall health spending on institutional delivery services become more egalitarian in Malawi? While the distribution...

Inequalities in Healthcare Spending on Curative Services: Evidence from Zambia

Both public spending and overall spending on curative services have become more egalitarian in Zambia with the rollout of Universal Health Coverage policies across the country. New research finds that...

Inequalities in Maternal Healthcare Spending: Evidence from Zambia

Public and overall health spending on institutional delivery services are more egalitarian as policies targeting universal maternal care are being rolled out in Zambia. While the distribution of benef...

Mixed methods approach for research on youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger

This article briefly explores how to combine two qualitative methodologies to inspect the topic of youth inclusion in Niger via a mixed methods analysis. It presents the ethnographic approach develope...

Just transition in Southeast Asia: Exploring the links between social protection and environmental policies

The link between social protection and the environment is expected to become a growing policy intervention area in Southeast Asia. Based on a systematic review of the academic and institutional litera...

Regulating platform delivery work in Argentina. Tensions between regulations and the priorities of workers

The quarantine imposed in March 2020 shed light on the essential labour performed by digital delivery platforms’ workers and their precarious labour conditions. In order to protect them, seven draft b...

Labour market trajectories and conciliation efforts among female Uber drivers

This article examines female Uber drivers’ labour trajectories, paying attention to the way in which gender-based occupational segregation is reproduced and/or challenged in the context of the platfor...

First Out, Last In amid COVID-19: Employment Vulnerability of Youths in the Middle East

This study estimates the impacts of the evolving COVID-19 crisis on the trends in workers’ employment outcomes in Egypt and Jordan. Using panel microdata from ERF COVID-19 MENA Monitors, waves 1–5 (Ju...

Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs

We investigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in four non-oil-exporting MENA countries (Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt). Using data from a recen...

Women and Youth labor market outcomes during Covid19: evidence from Egypt and Jordan

In response to the onslaught of Covid-19, many countries introduced lockdowns and social distancing measures of varying stringency, with severe repercussions for labor market participants. Youth and f...