Innovation & public policy

• Marking Markets for Vaccines – Full Book (with Ruth Levine and Nancy Birdsall)
• Advance Market Commitments: A Policy to Stimulate Investment in Vaccines for Neglected Diseases
  (with Michael Kremer and Heidi Williams)
• Intellectual Property And Market Failure (January 2004)
• Investing in Social Outcomes: Development Impact Bonds
  (report of the Working Group on Development Impact Bonds, chaired by Owen Barder & Toby Eccles)

Government & technology

• Government Cathedrals and Government Bazaars (IBM, May 2006)
• Fear of Trying (Public Finance Magazine, August 2006)
• Show, Don’t Tell (Public Service Review, April 2011)
• The Implications of Complexity for Development (The Kapuściński Lecture, May 2012)
• Development and Growth as an Emergent Property of a Complex Adaptive System
• Technology, Development, and the Post-2015 Settlement (with Charles Kenny)

Global economics and development cooperation

• Reforming Development Assistance: Experience of the UK (from Brainard – ed)
• Promoting the Development Power of Economic Transparency
• SkyShares: Modelling the Economic Implications of a Future Global Emissions Budget
  (with Alice Lépissier and Alex Evans)
• Evidence on The Future of UK Development Co-operation (September 2014, with Alex Evans, evidence to the IDC Select Committee)
• Tough on Poverty, Tough on the Causes of Poverty – Europe’s world
• The courts can cut off Assad’s supply line in the Financial Times, April 2013
• Let’s not forget that development is more than just CIDA – with Lucas Robinson, Canada’s Globe and Mail, March 2013
• What is Poverty Reduction? (CGD Working Paper 170)
• Payouts for Perils: Why Disaster Aid is Broken, and How Catastrophe Insurance Can Help to Fix It (with Theo Talbot)
• Supporting Private Sector Development (with Theo Talbot CGD Working Paper 402)
• CIDA merger with Foreign Affairs may help the poor (interview in Toronto Star)
• Knowledge and Development (presentation to Addis Ababa Share Fair 19 October 2010)
• Complexity – the simple path to success in development (The Guardian, 28 January 2011)

Aid effectiveness

• Is Aid a Waste of Money? (article in Significance, the journal of the Royal Statistical Society)
• Doing Cash Differently: How Cash Transfers Can Transform Humanitarian Aid
  (Report of a High Level Panel chaired by Owen Barder, September 2015)
• Payments for Progress (with Nancy Birdsall, CGD Working Paper 102)
• Governance of the aid system (with Mikaela Gavas, Simon Maxwell and Deborah Johnson)
• Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid (CGD Working Paper 185)
• My review of Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo
• An Open Letter to Aid Skeptics – article in the Center for International Relations Forum Journal
• Modestly Saving Lives – contribution to openDemocracy 14 December 2009
• The Costs and Benefits of Front-loading and Predictability of Immunization (with Ethan Yeh, Feb 2006)
• Evidence and scale (remarks to the CIFF Board)
• What sort of conditions should there be on aid?
• Are the planned increases in aid too much of a good thing? (CGD Working Paper 90)
• Can Aid Work (Written Evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee July 2011)
• Whose country is it anyway? Blog on Oaktree Foundation Blog 3 February 2011
• on Transparency – Atlantic Community 1 April 2010
• A policymakers’ guide to dutch disease (CGD Working Paper 91)

Other

• Sickly Sweet (January 2005)
• How to Set Up Email Triage for MS Outlook – December 2012
• Risk and Uncertainty (with Ruth Levine) (September 2006)

My blog

I started a blog in 2003, which I updated off and on until 2017. You can see it here.

Presentations

• The Role of the IFIs in the Future Financial Architecture – Presentation to the Nordic-Baltic meeting on multilateral development banks, January 2014
• Development and Growth as an Emergent Property of a Complex Adaptive System
• You say you want a revolution?  Presentation to DFID statisticians and evaluators, November 2013
• Practical Ethical Reflections in the Information Society (presentation to the Institute of Business Ethics)
• Presentation on Technical Assistance, DFID Ethiopia, 14 May 2009
• Presentation on Aid Effectiveness, DFID Tanzania, 20 May 2009
• Beyond Planning in aid, presentation to HMT, 25 January 2010
• Public spending in the post bureaucratic age, presentation to HMT, 25 January 2010
• Aid Effectiveness – the new agenda– Donor Assistance Group, Ethiopia, 19 May 2010
• After Busan – Stockholm, 20 January 2012
• What’s wrong with mutual accountability? – Berlin, 9 February 2012