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Davos 2025: Ideas from across the IGC for the Intelligent Age

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How Sierra Leone can join West Africa’s mobile money revolution

Marta Bertanzetti, Mohamed Ibrahim Justice Ganawah
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The IGC Blog: A year in review

Hina Shaikh, Nikita Mujumdar, Oliver Hanney, Paola Davila, Tim Dobermann, Oliver Harman, Nalini Gulati
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Climate priorities in developing countries

Bridging the climate finance gap: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable growth

Tim Dobermann
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What is needed to scale up solar mini grids in fragile contexts

Sarah Logan
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Escaping the fragility trap

Can transboundary climate risks lead to conflicts?

Amna Mahmood
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Can climate information improve the production efficiency of farmers in Ethiopia?

Fissha Asmare, Seid Yimam, Gebeyehu Fetene, Yalew Mekonnen

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Maximising value-added in African exports: Understanding the role of Rules of Origin

Bernard Hoekman, Christian Lippitsch, Marcelo Olarreaga, Marco Sanfilippo, Rohit Ticku

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Climate information and farm productivity

Wang Sheng Lee, Seneshaw Tamru, Emilia Tjernström, Mekonnen Bekele Wakeyo

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TIGRAY, ETHIOPIA - FEBRUARY 19: Farmers Desta Gebreyesus (L), 26, and Berhanu Gereyesus, 23, channel water pumped up to fields from a hole dug deep into a dried out river bed in the Yechila district
IGC's call for proposals

Caleb Andreason

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Building new informal bus routes to advance transportation equity: An experiment in Uganda

Tamara Kerzhner

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One of the busy main streets (Burton St) of Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
Understanding the challenges around waste management in Addis Ababa

Shivani Wadehra, Zihan Nie

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Landfill in Addis Ababa (Zacharias Abubeker/AFP via Getty Images)
How non-economic objectives in trade policies impact low-income countries

Christian Lippitsch, Nathalie Raschka

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Container ships from international trunk lines such as Europe, Africa, India, Pakistan and Southeast Asia load and unload containers at the container terminal of Qianwan Port Area of Qingdao Port, Shandong province, China, April 4, 2024.
Cost-effective tools to incentivise vaccination: Evidence from lotteries in Pakistan

Hina Khalid, Agha Ali Akram, Naeem Majeed, Ashley M. Fox

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How to unlock Zambia’s agricultural potential

Simon Roberts, Grace Nsomba, Christian Teschemacher

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Crops in Livingston, Zambia
Resultados socioeconómicos y de salud de las personas intersexuales en México

Ercio A. Munoz, Melanie Saavedra, Dario Sansone

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