There is longstanding debate in population policy about the relationship between modern contraception and abortion. Although theory predicts that they should be substitutes, the existing body of empirical evidence is difficult to interpret. In this paper, we study Nepal’s 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion of abortion services. Using four waves of rich individual-level data representative of fertile-age Nepalese women, we find robust evidence of substitution between modern contraception and abortion. This finding suggests that an effective strategy for reducing expensive and potentially unsafe abortions may be to expand the supply of modern contraceptives.
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Wednesday, 30 March 2016
TPP Risks and TTIP Opportunities: Rules of Origin, Trade Diversion, and Developing Countries (Kimberly Ann Elliott, CGD)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, if completed and implemented, will cover a large portion of global trade and investment, but they will exclude the majority of developing countries. American and European negotiators also want these deals to be “gold standard” agreements that establish the new rules of trade for a new century. The biggest concern arising from these mega-regional agreements is that they will undermine the rules-based multilateral trading system. More immediately, preferential trade arrangements divert trade from outsiders and the new or expanded rules that US and EU negotiators want to establish as precedents for the global system will not always be optimal for poorer countries.
Better Regulation Can Improve Financial Inclusion (Maryam Akmal, CGD)
Poor regulation is a key obstacle to financial inclusion. An enabling regulatory environment is critical for creating incentives for businesses to offer innovative financial services to the poor, and for underserved customers to take up formal financial services.
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Trade Is Not "Us against Them" (Kimberly Ann Elliott, CGD)
There has been an unfortunate tendency in this year’s US presidential campaign to make trade policy an “us against them” story. It is true that the US government does not do enough to compensate those who lose from trade, or to help individuals and industries adjust to the changes that more open markets bring. But rhetoric pitting poor people in the United States against even poorer people elsewhere helps neither.
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How Could the Global Fund Get More Health for Its Money? Lessons from the Economics of Contract Theory (Mead Over, CGD)
Our recent report on next generation financing models looks at how global health donors, specifically the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, can enhance the health impact of grants for health service delivery by tying grant payments to achieved and verified results. Yet there are several ways to condition payments on performance and, as my colleagues and I have previously pointed out, (here, here, here and here), some ways would likely work better than others in any given setting. Can economic theory suggest specific features of contract designs which would generate more health for the money?
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No Trade-Off Between Financial Inclusion and Stability: What the G20 Need to Know – Podcast with Liliana Rojas-Suarez (Rajesh Mirchandani, CDG)
Enabling millions more people around the world to control their financial futures is good for development and will be high on the agenda when G20 leaders meet in China later this year.
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Wednesday, 16 March 2016
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