The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...

Current business models have struggled to support early-stage drug development. In this paper, we study an alternative financing model, the mega-fund structure, to fund drug discovery. We extend the framework proposed in previous studies to account for correlation between phase transitions in...

The Chad-Cameroon oilfield development and pipeline project was a major attempt by the international community to leverage an extractive industries project to promote development in a fragile state. The project is notable for its size and ambition, and for the intensive participation of...