Examining the expansion of Jakarta’s bus system shows how simple improvements in public transport service quality can boost usage

Providing vouchers for rice and eggs allowed for better targeting, increased protein consumption, and was cheaper to administer than in-kind benefits

Enhanced tax administration can increase government revenue collection from medium-sized firms in developing countries even more than raising tax rates

How can we best protect the most vulnerable in the developing world during the COVID-19 pandemic?

A large-scale randomised experiment reveals that temporary health insurance subsidies can improve take-up at no additional cost to the government

The limited impacts of an improved cooking stove programme in India suggest that testing interventions in real-world conditions is important

Personality tests and psychological profiling offer innovative ways for cutting corruption in the public sector of developing countries

When unpopular anti-congestion policies were abandoned in Indonesia's capital, we discovered flawed policy had been better than no policy

An attendance-monitoring intervention in schools reduced absenteeism, but the impact on health care workers was limited