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White paper: Innovation, growth, and the environment

Robin Burgess, Stefano Caria, Tim Dobermann, Allegra Saggese
Synthesis paper
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Resilient and resurgent Bangladesh: Sustaining economic growth in a changing climate

Aminul Aman, Ashfaqul Chowdhury, Nikita Sharma, Shahid Vaziralli
Synthesis paper
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Can expert feedback improve SMEs' views of government's regulatory legitimacy? Evidence from Thailand

Allen Hicken, Edmund Malesky, Songkhun Nillasithanukroh, Markus Taussig
Policy brief
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Data and research as key enablers of city outcomes: A case study of the City of Cape Town (2000-2022)

Carol Wright, Natasha Primo, Victoria Delbridge, Kezia Fortuin
Case study
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Sustainable urbanisation in developing countries: Cities as places to innovate, trade, and work

Victoria Delbridge, Oliver Harman, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Tony Venables
Growth brief
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Sustainable urbanisation in developing countries: Cities as places to live

Victoria Delbridge, Oliver Harman, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Tony Venables
Growth brief

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Situational assessment of the SRE and Yawri Bay: Baseline report

Rens Chazottes, Niccolò Meriggi, Maarten Voors

Project report

Final report Chazottes et al October 2023 cover
Unlocking the potential of Zambia's administrative data

Rory Hardie, Shahrukh Wani, Torsten Figueiredo Walter, Benjamin Shawa

Policy paper

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Unlocking economic prosperity in the Zambian Copperbelt

Niels Mulder, Gharad Bryan, Neil Lee, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Benjamin Shawa, Shahrukh Wani, Eric Werker

Policy paper

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Positioning Zambia for a copper-plus future

Allegra Saggese, Benjamin Shawa, Shahrukh Wani

Policy paper

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Asking better questions

Amisha Miller, Saurabh Lall, Markus Goldstein, Joao Montalvao

Working paper

Miller et al Working paper February 2024
Making digitisation more inclusive for job matching

Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Kofi Takyi Asante, James Dzansi, Henry Telli

Project report

Lambon-Quayefio et al Final report August 2023
Digitalisation of local revenues in Malawi

Lennart Fleck, Dyson Jangia, Victoria Delbridge

Project report

Digitalisation of local revenues in Malawi report cover
Digitalisation of local revenues in Malawi

Lennart Fleck, Dyson Jangia, Victoria Delbridge

Policy brief

Digitalisation of local revenue in Malawi
Workers in space: Evidence from Bangladesh

Julia Cajal Grossi, Gabriel Kreindler

Policy brief

Cajal-Grossi and Kreindler Policy brief December 2023_Page_01
Decentralisation in a weak state: Traditional and state governance in the DRC

Soeren Henn, Aimable Lameke, Mastaki Mugaruka, Vincent Tanutama

Policy brief

Henn et al Policy brief March 2023_Page_1