F. Evidence & Solutions in Action

F.1 Case Studies in Asset Recovery & Legal Reform

1. “Few and Far: The Hard Facts on Stolen Asset Recovery” — StAR (World Bank/UNODC) & OECD — star.worldbank.org/sites/star/files/few_and_far_the_hard_facts_on_stolen_asset_recovery.pdf
2. “Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos (Switzerland chapter)” — StAR Asset Recovery Watch Database — star.worldbank.org/asset-recovery-watch-database/ferdinand-and-imelda-marcos-switzerland-chapter
3. “The Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative” (Fact Sheet 5) — UNODC — unodc.org/documents/treaties/UNCAC/COSP/session2/Factsheet5-StARInitiative.pdf
4. “Using Administrative Data to Assess the Impact and Sustainability of Rwanda’s Land Tenure Regularization” — World Bank Policy Research — documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/722291468195545378/using-administrative-data-to-assess-the-impact-and-sustainability-of-rwandas-land-tenure-regularization
5. “The effects of land tenure regularization in Rwanda” — World Bank Development Impact blog, plain-language summary — blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/the-effects-of-land-tenure-regularization-in-rwanda

F.2 Proven Economic Turnaround Models — the evidence base behind Master Plan Section 4’s Regenerative Enterprise Model

1. “A Multifaceted Program Causes Lasting Progress for the Very Poor: Evidence from Six Countries” — Banerjee, Duflo et al., Science (2015) — the Graduation-programme RCT: asset transfer bundled with training, coaching, and savings support — science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1260799
2. “Early findings from the world’s largest UBI study” — GiveDirectly, 2023 Kenya results comparing lump-sum vs. monthly UBI transfers — givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results
3. “Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment” — de Mel, McKenzie & Woodruff, Quarterly Journal of Economics (2008) — academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/123/4/1329/1933166

F.3 Climate-Poverty Linkages & Evaluation Methodology — primary destination for Research Grant Programme outputs (Master Plan Section 5)

1. “Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025: Overlapping Hardships – Poverty and Climate Hazards” — UNDP/OPHI, this year’s MPI report overlaying poverty and climate-hazard exposure — see the full entry already listed under A.1; cross-linked here rather than re-listed
2. “New Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Report Reveals Nearly 80% of the World’s Poor Live in Regions Exposed to Climate Hazards” — UNDP press release — undp.org/press-releases/new-global-multidimensional-poverty-index-report-reveals-nearly-80-worlds-poor-live-regions-exposed-climate-hazards
3. “Introduction to Randomized Evaluations” — J-PAL, non-technical primer on RCT methodology — povertyactionlab.org/resource/introduction-randomized-evaluations
4. “Theory-Based Impact Evaluation: Principles and Practice” (Working Paper 3) — Howard White, 3ie — 3ieimpact.org/evidence-hub/publications/working-papers/theory-based-impact-evaluation-principles-and-practice