Julia Tobias
Julia Tobias is Executive, Development Impact, at CDC Group. She was formerly a Policy Economist in the IGC London Hub. She provided thematic leadership over IGC’s work in energy and state effectiveness. Previously, she has worked with the World Bank, Global Innovation Fund, and the National Team for Accelerating Poverty Reduction under the Vice President of Indonesia. Her interests focus on poverty reduction, social protection, governance, and innovative approaches to public services delivery. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Yale University.
Content by Julia Tobias
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Seeding success: Increasing agricultural technology adoption through information
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Publication - Growth Brief
Seeding success: Increasing agricultural technology adoption through information
Modern agricultural technologies have enormous potential to drive poverty reduction and economic growth, but adoption remains low in many countries. New models of information sharing could help resolve this. With over half of working adults in sub-Saharan Africa employed in agriculture, improving agricultural productivity is an important way to raise living standards. This...
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Publication - Growth Brief
Rewarding bureaucrats: Can incentives improve public sector performance?
This brief synthesises lessons from the latest research on strategies to improve the performance of public sector workers, including government administrators and frontline service providers, such as teachers and health workers. The focus is on strategies for recruiting and motivating the public sector workforce.
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Rewarding bureaucrats: Can incentives improve public sector performance?
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Publication - Growth Brief
Growth Brief: The cost of violence - Estimating the economic impact of conflict
Alongside its dire humanitarian costs, armed conflict poses a range of risks to a country’s economic growth and development. Measuring the economic impacts of violence matters because it can inform resilience strategies and drive resources toward conflict prevention. Fragile states often struggle to maintain resilience to conflict and other shocks; conflict, economic...
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The cost of violence: Estimating the economic impact of conflict
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#PoweringGrowth: 3 new facts from the IGC Energy Conference
In today’s blog, we bring you highlights from the recent IGC Energy Conference, capturing new ideas and evidence on policies to fight energy poverty. Most of these are fresh findings that haven’t been published yet! The idea that affordable and reliable energy is tightly linked to a country’s economic growth is not one that many people question. What does remain...
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Hiring Do-Gooders or Go-Getters: Attracting talent to improve public service delivery
What is the best strategy for attracting the strongest candidates into government jobs? This widespread challenge is particularly relevant in developing countries, where low skills and motivation among public sector workers often translates into poor-quality essential public services like health and education. Effective governance requires recruiting and retaining people...