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Reorientating the Results Based Agenda: Interviews by Carl-Gustav Lindén
21 March 2013 In foreign aid, results are the buzz word of the day; evaluation, monitoring, and quality control are the means of demonstrating to critical legislators and the public that tax money budgeted to foreign aid does achieve something...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Education HealthBlog
Redefining Poverty in China and India: Making Growth more Inclusive, Part 2Tony Addison and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa China and India are making immense strides in development. Growth in both countries has been impressive...
Economic development Economic growth Equality and inequalityBlog
Redefining Poverty in China and India: What Does This Mean for the Fight Against Global Poverty? Part ITony Addison and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa China and India are making immense strides in development. Growth in both countries has been impressive...
Economic development Economic growth Poverty measurementBlog
Learning How to Promote Social Protection from Cambodia’s Garment Workers
Alisa DiCaprio Innovations in social protection systems design have moved forward quickly on the supply-side over the past decade...
Employee rights Human rights Labour lawBlog
Aid in North Africa after the 'Arab Spring'
Jane Harrigan Donor political interests have heavily influenced aid flows to North Africa in the past. This has reduced the effectiveness of aid which, with the exception of Tunisia, has not been associated with sustained economic growth...
Democratization Economic assistance and foreign aid Equality and inequalityBlog
From the Editor's Desk (December 2011)
Tony Addison With the end of the year fast approaching, we bring you the last Angle of 2011. Here in Helsinki, the shortest day of the year is nearly upon us when we will have six hours of daylight...
Finance Climate change Right of propertyResearch Brief
Aid in North Africa After the ‘Arab Spring’Donor political interests have heavily influenced aid flows to North Africa in the past. This has reduced the effectiveness of aid which, with the exception of Tunisia, has not been associated with sustained economic growth...
Democratization Economic assistance and foreign aid Equality and inequalityBlog
From the Editor's desk (November 2011) Tony Addison As we come to the end of November, the snow has yet to arrive in Helsinki...
Finance Climate change Raw materialsResearch Brief
Learning How to Promote Social Protection from Cambodia’s Garment WorkersInnovations in social protection systems design have moved forward quickly on the supply-side over the past decade. But the same degree of creativity has not been applied to the equally critical demand-side constraints to social protection...
Labour unions Social movement Social securityWorking Paper
The Demand Side of Social Protection: Lessons from Cambodia’s Labour Rights ExperienceIn fragile states, social protection programmes are often a kaleidoscope of projects financed and implemented by a variety of donors, government agencies and NGOs...
Labour unions Social movement Social securityWorking Paper
The Political Economy of Aid Flows to North AfricaThis paper provides an historical overview of aid flows to North Africa. It assesses the aid allocation process and argues that past aid flows to the region have been heavily influenced by donor political interests...
Democratization Economic assistance and foreign aid Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin AmericaThe paper tracks recent changes in the components of social protection in Latin America, the reforms to social insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality and implicati...
Economic policy Equality and inequality Social securityBook Chapter
Mexico’s Oportunidades and the Raise of Social Protection in Latin AmericaFlera länder i Latin- och Sydamerika har under det senaste decenniet infört sociala trygghetssystem för att minska den utbredda fattigdomen. Miguel NiñoZarazúa går här igenom bakgrunden till dessa reformer och vilka effekter de har fått...
Human capital Poverty Social securityBook Chapter
Työntekijöiden oikeudet ja sosiaaliturva KambodzassaA Book Chapter in Joona Pietarila (ed.) Kambodza kriisien jälkeen. Kirjoituksia yhteiskunnan kehityksestä ja tulevaisuuden haasteista...
Human rights Social securityBlog
Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on the Arab Region
By Imed Drine Whilst having a global impact, the current financial and economic crisis is clearly affecting certain regions more severely than others. One region which may be amongst the worst affected is the Arab region...
Financial crisis International trade Foreign investments