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The Quest to Eradicate Polio: Lessons Learned from Nigeria’s Challenges and Successes. Center for Global Development Policy Papers. Online 11/2016.
No full textPathways to prosperity for adolescent girls in Kenya
Full text linkThe World Bank, in partnership with the Population Council, and the Center for Global Development (CGD), launched the Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa report in October 2024. The joint report brings urgently needed focus to the challenges faced by adolescent girls across the region and presents targeted policy solutions to address their diverse experiences and needs.
The report findings were discussed in Nairobi, Kenya during a policy and evidence workshop held on March 3, 2025. The workshop shone a spotlight on the status and wellbeing of adolescent girls in Kenya and enabled stakeholders to share insights and priority actions that will set adolescent girls on the path to prosperity, positioning them as key drivers of Kenya and Africa\u27s future. The workshop brought together over 100 participants, including representatives of government ministries and county departments serving adolescents, multi-lateral agencies, youth representatives, and international, national and grassroots organizations focused on adolescents.
Key indicators on adolescent girls in Kenya are included in this country brief and the related presentation
Replication Data for "The Educational Impacts of Cash Transfers in Tanzania"
No full textThis dataset is compiled from the three waves of household-level data collected from 2009 to 2012 in Tanzania for assessing the impact of cash transfer program in the community. This subset of data allows to replicate the tables and figures presented in the article, "The educational impacts of cash transfers in Tanzania."
The detailed description of each variable, sampling procedure, and the intervention are described in this article.
This dataset is compiled from the three waves of household-level data collected for the impact evaluation of cash transfers in Tanzania
Congressional Testimony: Foreign Workers Benefit Massively from Guest Work Opportunities
Full text linkLeading development economists find that authorized guest workers typically draw massive economic benefits from their work, relative to their best alternatives. They migrate voluntarily, pass on large benefits to their families and home countries, and almost universally return home when guest work programs are well designed. Expanding opportunities for authorized guest work reduces the exploitation of migrant workers by competing directly with the black market for labor.The Center for Global Development is a non-partisan, independent, and non-profit think tank dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality through rigorous research. This submission briefly summarizes the latest research by myself and other economists regarding the effects of guest work on guest workers
Think long term : how global AIDS donors can strengthen the health workforce in Africa
No full textThis bulletin from the Center for Global Development underlines the need for AIDS donors to address long-term problems in health workforce shortages. It summarizes findings of the HIV/AIDS Monitor team and research collaborators in Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia who investigated AIDS donor practices. The report makes recommendations for improvements in AIDS donors’ training strategies for health personnel. It also recommends ensuring the employment of health workers for AIDS programs align with national human resources strategies and plans
Open Philanthropy Project History of Philanthropy Case Study: The Founding of the Center for Global Development
Full text linkThis case study examines the founding and growth of the Center for Global Development (CGD), a think tank that conducts research on and promotes improvements to rich-world policies that affect the global poor
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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