China's high-stake judicial reform boosts local court independence, curbs protectionism in cross-region lawsuits, and stimulates investment flows between regions
Evidence from India shows that inequality between children starts at home, when parents decide how to split investments in education between their children
A public works programme in Ethiopia improves welfare for the urban poor both directly for participants and indirectly through increasing private sector wages and improving amenities
A cost-effective at-scale early childhood development intervention integrated into existing public service infrastructure led to positive impacts on child development in Bangladesh
Reducing tax rates increases tax revenues when enforcement capacity is low. However, low-capacity states can invest in tax enforcement to shift up the revenue-maximising tax rate.
Implementation metrics explain much of the difference in effectiveness for a set of education programmes across studies and settings, playing a key role in generalisability
A shared performance incentive scheme for health workers and their supervisors improved productivity and health outcomes and was more effective than paying the incentive to only one group
In Namibia, providing a short list of specific saving strategies reduced water consumption by 5% while simply raising awareness and asking households to find their own strategies was ineffective
