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Center for Global Development
Nonprofit•Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States•
About: Center for Global Development is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poverty & Population. The organization has 1472 authors who have published 3891 publications receiving 162325 citations.
Topics: Poverty, Population, Politics, Developing country, Government
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the broader geographies of NGO intervention in international development, and focus on case-study-based research on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Abstract: Much research on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved in international development has been case-study-based, with questions about the broader geographies of NGO intervention rarely asked....
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TL;DR: This article examined the effects of aid on growth in cross-sectional and panel data, after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance, and found little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth.
Abstract: We examine the effects of aid on growth - in cross-sectional and panel data - after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance. Even after this correction, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth. We also find no evidence that aid works better in better policy or geographical environments, or that certain forms of aid work better than others. Our findings, which relate to the past, do not imply that aid cannot be beneficial in the future. But they do suggest that for aid to be effective in the future, the aid apparatus will have to be rethought. Our findings raise the question: what aspects of aid offset what ought to be the indisputable growth enhancing effects of resource transfers? Thus, our findings support efforts under way at national and international levels to understand and improve aid effectiveness.
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TL;DR: In this article, a randomized evaluation in rural Kenya finds that providing textbooks did not raise average test scores of the best students, but had little effect on other students, and that the curriculum in Kenya, and in many other developing countries, tends to be oriented toward academically strong students.
Abstract: A randomized evaluation in rural Kenya finds, contrary to the previous literature, that providing textbooks did not raise average test scores. Textbooks did increase the scores of the best students (those with high pretest scores) but had little effect on other students. Textbooks are written in English, most students' third language, and many students could not use them effectively. More generally, the curriculum in Kenya, and in many other developing countries, tends to be oriented toward academically strong students, leaving many students behind in societies that combine a centralized educational system; the heterogeneity in student preparation associated with rapid educational expansion; and disproportionate elite power.
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TL;DR: In this article, a set of theoretical models predict that countries with unchanged long-run savings preferences will respond to debt relief with a mixture of asset decumulation and new borrowing, and a high-discount-rate government will choose poor policies and impose its inter-temporal preferences on the entire economy.
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TL;DR: VGC has promise for effective CMV prophylaxis or treatment with once-daily oral dosing in transplant recipients and delivers systemic GCV exposure equivalent to that of standard oral GCV or i.v. GCV (at 900 mg of VGC).
Abstract: The pharmacokinetics of an orally administered valine ester of ganciclovir (GCV), valganciclovir (VGC), were studied. These were compared to the pharmacokinetics of oral and intravenous GCV. Twenty-eight liver transplant recipients received, in an open-label random order with a 3- to 7-day washout, each of the following: 1 g of oral GCV three times a day; 450 mg of VGC per os (p.o.) once a day (q.d.); 900 mg of VGC p.o. q.d.; and 5 mg of intravenous (i.v.) GCV per kg of body weight q.d., given over 1 h. GCV and VGC concentrations were measured in blood over 24 h. One-sided equivalence testing was performed to test for noninferiority of 450 mg of VGC relative to oral GCV (two-sided 90% confidence interval [CI] > 80%) and nonsuperiority of 900 mg of VGC relative to i.v. GCV (two-sided 90% CI < 125%). The exposure of 450 mg of VGC (20.56 μg · h/ml) was found to be noninferior to that of oral GCV (20.15 μg · h/ml; 90% CI for relative bioavailability of 95 to 109%), and the exposure of 900 mg of VGC (42.69 μg · h/ml) was found to be nonsuperior to that of i.v. GCV (47.61 μg · h/ml; 90% CI = 83 to 97%). Oral VGC delivers systemic GCV exposure equivalent to that of standard oral GCV (at 450 mg) or i.v. GCV (at 900 mg of VGC). VGC has promise for effective CMV prophylaxis or treatment with once-daily oral dosing in transplant recipients.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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William Easterly | 93 | 253 | 49657 |
Michael Kremer | 78 | 294 | 29375 |
George G. Nomikos | 70 | 202 | 13581 |
Tommy B. Andersson | 70 | 216 | 15167 |
Mark Rounsevell | 69 | 253 | 20296 |
David Hulme | 69 | 324 | 18616 |
Lant Pritchett | 68 | 260 | 35341 |
Jane E. Freedman | 65 | 348 | 13704 |
Arvind Subramanian | 64 | 220 | 20452 |
Dale Whittington | 63 | 265 | 10949 |
Michael Walker | 61 | 319 | 14864 |
Sanjeev Gupta | 59 | 575 | 14306 |
Joseph C. Cappelleri | 59 | 484 | 20193 |
Nathaniel P. Katz | 58 | 211 | 18483 |
Anthony Bebbington | 57 | 247 | 13362 |