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Briefing Papers

The briefing papers are listed by date published from earliest to latest.

Rethinking Trade Preferences to Help Diversify African Exports

Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables

CEPR Policy Research Insight No. 2, June 2007

Survival of the Fattest

Paul Collier

The American Interest, 2007

The 2007 Elections, Post-Conflict Recovery and Coalition Government in Kenya

Roxana Gutiérrez Romero, Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Stefan Dercon

iiG Briefing Paper 01, 26 September 2008

Ethnicity, Violence and the 2007 Elections in Kenya

Stefan Dercon, Michael Bratton, Mwangi Kimenyi, Roxana Gutierrez-Romero, and Tessa Bold

Afrobarometer Briefing Paper No.48, 2008

Decentralization, Accountability and the MPs Elections: The Case of the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya

Roxana Gutiérrez Romero

iiG Briefing Paper 02, May 2009

Lessons from Kenya’s introduction of free primary education

iiG Briefing Paper 03, August 2009

Teacher Interns and Community Monitoring in Kenyan Schools

iiG Briefing Paper 04, August 2009

The Impact of the Kenyan Post-election Violence on the Kenyan Flower Export Industry

iiG Briefing Paper 05, August 2009

Votes and Violence in Nigeria

iiG Briefing Paper 06, August 2009

Campaign finance distorts Nigerian elections

iiG Briefing Paper 07, November 2009

India's poor rely mainly on private health care

iiG Briefing Paper 08, March 2010

Supporting Democratic Institutions and Clean and Peaceful Elections

iiG Briefing Paper 09, March 2010

How economic growth and politics interact

iiG Briefing Paper 10, March 2010

The Informal Economy and Growth

iiG Briefing Paper 11, June 2010

To feed or to educate: Hard choices for the extremely poor

iiG Briefing Paper 12, June 2010

Hospitalisation means India’s poor go hungry

iiG Briefing Paper 13, July 2010

Can you successfully teach people how to run small businesses?

iiG Briefing Paper 14, January 2011

The consequences of crime

iiG Briefing Paper 15, October 2011

Raising revenue to reduce poverty

iiG Briefing Paper 16, October 2011

Insurance products for the poor should not be poor products

iiG Briefing Paper 17, November 2011

When does community monitoring improve school performance?

iiG Briefing Paper 18, December 2011

Aspirations matter: Shaping aspirations can play a crucial role in enabling people to pull themselves out of poverty

iiG Briefing Paper 19, February 2012

How to improve knowledge and take-up of public services by the poor: The case of the RSBY National Health Insurance in India

iiG Briefing Paper 20, March 2012

Offering rainfall insurance to informal insurance groups: evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia

Stefan Dercon, Ruth Vargas Hill, Daniel Clarke, Ingo Outes-Leon, Alemayehu Seyoum Tafesse

BREAD Policy Paper 032, November 2012

Do the Nigerian public trust their police?

iiG Briefing Paper 21, December 2012

Attitudes towards citizenship in Nigeria

iiG Briefing Paper 22, December 2012

Understanding electoral violence: Lessons from Kenya

iiG Briefing Paper 23, December 2012

Encouraging tax compliance in the informal sector

iiG Briefing Paper 24, May 2013

Empowering adolescent girls in Uganda

BRAC Policy Brief 1, January 2013

Microcredit and microsavings: Two sides of the same coin?

iiG Briefing Paper 25, March 2015

Coping with land expropriation in rural Ethiopia

iiG Briefing Paper 26, March 2015

Do community based microfinance groups work for their members?

iiG Briefing Paper 27, March 2015