The 2015 edition of the Spring Prize goes to the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard UniversityMotivation: well their presentation says it all: ‘ The CID is a university-wide center that works to advance the understanding of development challenges and offers viable solutions to problems of global poverty. The CID is Harvard’s leading research hub focusing on resolving the dilemmas of public policy associated with generating stable, shared, and sustainable prosperity in developing countries. Our ongoing mission is to apply knowledge to and revolutionize the world of development practice.’
You may want to consult their working papers available at
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/faculty-working-papers . For 2014 there is one simply titled: This is PFM (attached with this post).