Whilst the impact on fertility of child-related cash transfer in developing countries is fiercely debated, the author of this paper argues that little ...

This report presents the living conditions of 2000 households in Northern Lebanon in an effort to explore opportunities for their development, especially ...

Deforestation arising from conversion of forest areas into agriculture is a serious problem in Malawi. This paper discusses competition for agricultural ...

Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction (CFPR) is an innovative programme that was initiated in 2002 to address extreme poverty in Bangladesh. ...

Brazil undertakes a historical policy to close wage gaps that stands out for its strong affinity with Jus Semper's TLWNSI concept for the realisation ...

This paper discusses the impact of the crisis on DB pension schemes and the temporary responses taken by regulators to help ease financially strained ...

Civil war, sabotage from neighbouring states, and economic collapse characterised the first decade of Mozambican independence. During most of the civil ...

This paper briefly outlines some of the perceptions of Zimbabweans regarding the various changes that have occurred in the country in the past 10–15 ...

Since independence in 1966, Botswana has been a non-racial, multiparty democracy operating within the framework of a constitution, which enshrines ...

The politician who wants expenditure on service provision to provide good services, the clients of the service, and the taxpayers who finance it, all ...

This handbook aims primarily to create a record of mass attitudes of citizens in selected African countries towards democracy, markets, civil society, ...

In Tanzania, poverty rates amongst households containing an older person are 22.4 per cent higher than the national poverty rate. In the past, security ...

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Many difficulties exist in measuring governance and using these indicators to inform policy decisions. This paper offers the following three principles ...

Significant unrest that falls outside the scope of civil conflict or rebel insurgency is becoming more common. Predictive research directs us to rethink ...

This paper outlines linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and social protection. It begins by giving examples of ...

This paper presents a detailed overview of 'The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015', which was adopted at the World Conference on Disaster ...

This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study, and offers emerging findings on policy, as well as institutional ...

This paper is a synthesis of the rapidly-changing field of resilience research and argues that humanity has powerful interactions with biogeochemical, ...

This report presents a cross-cutting summary of country study findings and workshop deliberations on linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk ...

This paper presents the risk-related elements referred to in the Bali Action Plan, namely disaster reduction strategies and risk management including ...

This policy note argues that the effectiveness of monetary policy relies on a viable domestic market for trading public securities, and a commercial ...

This paper presents the integration of DRR and CCA initiatives in the pacific community, and draws upon the knowledge and insight of key stakeholders ...

Governments and development agencies increasingly recognise social protection as an important component of poverty reduction and development. Social assistance, ...

This study uses literature reviews and interviews to investigate social assistance for disabled people in developing countries. It examines attitudes ...

This report provides analysis of alternative policy scenarios to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth based on G-20 frameworks submitted ...

This paper explores the differences and similarities between Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) through analysing climate-related ...

This paper presents a set of indicators of vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate variability using a novel methodology for assessing vulnerability ...

The paper discusses the National Adaptive Capacity Framework (NAC). It indicates that under the NAC approach, adaptation is treated as an organic process ...

This paper highlights the importance of communication as a tool and a methodology that can make development strategies more effective, sustainable, and ...

History has shown what women in many Christian churches have been perceived to take support roles only, while leaving leadership roles to their male counterparts. ...

This paper reviews the progress on three indicators of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), beside some factors contributing to that progress. The ...

This report reflects some preliminary findings of an ongoing collaborative project to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on reproductive ...

This paper states that the problem of inflation in South Africa has occurred in different forms and has occupied the attention of monetary authorities ...

People with disabilities (PWD) face physical and attitudinal barriers to participation in education, the labour market and development processes. In ...

This report consists of proceedings of the Fifth Southern African Forum on Trade (SAFT) held in South Africa. The Forum evaluated regional achievements, ...

This paper is the outcome of a seminar about the impacts of climate change on development and economic growth, as well as food security and trade in ...

This paper examines the relationship between structural, high inequality - measured by high levels of schooling inequality - and liberalisation of ...

This paper reports on a research exercise involving monitoring the Yemeni media over a six-week period. It emphasises that the promotion of gender-balanced ...

This paper reflects the details of a workshop built around a Participatory Rural Appraisal approach to support communities to conceptualise their health ...

This paper reflects on lessons learned in developing a mixed-methods approach to the study of poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh. The paper argues ...

This article reviews the current economic and political circumstances in Zimbabwe, trying to figure out the way to get out of the current situation. ...

This paper assesses the IMF's macroeconomic framework and its renewed role in low-income countries (LICs) during and after the recent food, fuel ...

In early 2008 Kenya was almost on the brink of an all-out civil war after the outcome of a heavily disputed presidential election led to large-scale ...

For some years now, donors and non-governmental promotors of democracy have insisted that they are committed to designing democracy policies that ...

The widespread violence which prevails in many fragile states combined with the lack of state capacity or will to provide security for women can result ...

The introduction of 'new' aid modalities and in particular general budget support has increased the interest in the relationship ...

The gaps between approved budgets and the realisation of policy development goals are among the key governance challenges in developing countries. ...

Governance has been a central issue in the discourse on development since the end of the Cold War. African governments have come on board through the ...