- Policy paper calling for accelerated action towards a low carbon, resource-efficient economy
- N. Stern; R. Mattia; J. Rydge / Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 2012
- Intended to inform decision-makers in the public, private and third sectors, this policy paper finds that following a two degrees Celsius path requires radical action in both developed and developing countries and that the overall pac...
- Climate Change Finance: If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It
- C. S. Clapp / Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012
- Climate change finance is currently estimated at between approximately USD 70 and 120 billion per year. However, these estimates involve a fair amount of uncertainty. There is no agreed definition of what climate finance includes; mor...
- Knowledge and brokerage in REDD+ policy making: A Policy Networks Analysis of the case of Tanzania
- S. Rantala / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012
- As various countries are preparing their national REDD+ strategies, balancing different types of knowledge and interests for legitimate and effective policies has become a primary, pressing challenge. Knowledge and discourses on REDD+...
- Innovating for the health of all: Global Forum update on research for health, volume 6
- Global Forum for Health Research, 2009
- This report focuses on incentives that drive innovation. For new technologies, people are generally familiar with ‘push’ and ‘pull’ incentives. Push incentives include public funding for research and tax breaks for...
- How to build consensus in climate change negotiations
- K. Buckley / Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
- This policy brief is the result of an event, convened by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network and the PwC network in October 2012, at which leading thinkers presented their ideas for increasing the collective global ambition ...
- Foresight reducing risks of future disasters: priorities for decision makers
- The Government Office for Science, 2012
- Science plays a key role in reducing the impacts of future natural hazards in developing countries according to this Foresight report. The threat of future disasters can be stabilised, if decision-makers make better use of technologic...
- Paper examining the impacts of Clean Development Mechanism rules on renewable energy investment and governance in Ethiopia
- S. Hoch / Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2012
- The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has mobilised significant investment in renewable energy technology around the world. Yet there is a pressing need to reform CDM rules to incentivise renewable energy investment in low-income coun...
- Climate and development research review: synthesis report
- Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2012
- This report by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) highlights key trends in a growing body of research on the links between climate change and development. The purpose of the review is to pull out the main findings from this bod...
- Functions and processes at the various interfaces between knowledge, practice, and policy
- L. Shaxson (ed) / United Nations University, 2012
- What is K* and how can we use it? K* is a convenient term for the plethora of acronyms for knowledge brokering (KB), knowledge translation (KT), knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE), knowledge mobilisation (KMb) and many others. Thes...
- Green growth: economic theory and political discourse
- London School of Economics, 2012
- This paper explores the concept of green growth in international policy discourse. It distinguishes between a ‘standard’ version, which asserts the long-run economic benefit of environmental protection, and a ‘strong...
- Climate policy and development: an economic analysis
- F. Ackerman / Stockholm Environment Institute, 2012
- This paper describes the use of the Climate and Regional Economics of Development (CRED) model to explore the interconnections between climate and development policy. CRED scenarios, based on high and low projections of climate damage...
- Social Safety nets in Bangladesh: Ground Realities and Policy Challenges (Volume 2)
- H.Z. Rahman 2012
- The current volume focuses on implementation and outcome realities of SSN programmes and the policy challenges implied therein. The field assessment covered ten major programmes covering major types as well as GO and NGO mandates. The...
- Inclusive and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities, policies and partnerships
- Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- These challenge papers aim to address two key questions: how has the development challenge changed, and how could it be understood for the future; and what are the implications for development agencies and development partnerships? Th...
- How policy actors engage with information systems, and where knowledge intermediaries could best add value
- S.J. Batchelor / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- This is a draft report to share some interim findings from the study – "Information Ecosystems of Policy Actors – reviewing the landscape." This report is for general circulation on the understanding that it is a work in p...
- Beyond low and middle income countries: what if there were five clusters of developing countries?
- A. Sumner / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- Many have challenged the use of income per capita as the primary proxy for development. This paper continues this tradition with a twist. The paper challenges the continuing use of income per capita to classify developing countries as...
- Climate finance readiness: lessons learned in developing countries
- J. Gastelumendi / The Nature Conservancy, 2012
- This report explores how strategies to reduce carbon emissions relate to a country’s financial structures and institutions. It details lessons learned in Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Mexico and Peru on how best to design in-cou...
- What difference does a policy brief make?
- P. Beynon; C. Chapoy; M. Gaarder; E. Masset / International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012
- 3ie and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in collaboration with Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), explored the effectiveness of a policy brief for influencing readers’ beliefs and prompting them to ...
- How can climate information more effectively inform adaptation?
- G. Srinivasan; K. M. Rafisura; A. R. Subbiah / Climate Research, 2011
- Climate information is an important prerequisite for informed decision-making in risk management and adaptation to help prevent climate extremes from becoming disasters. This paper asserts that in order for climate informat...
- An evaluation of India's national action plan on climate change
- Centre for Development Finance, 2012
- This report evaluates the design of India’s eight climate missions developed using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in 2008. The report aims to provide policy makers, academics and res...
- ICT for Development Policy, Process and Governance
- E. C. Lallana / United Nations Asian Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Develo, 2010
- This briefing note looks at what the current (digital) technology is capable of and what this implies for policy making. Divided into three sections, the first section examines the process of crafting policies that would be best suite...
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)
- The Finnish Institute of International Affairs is a research institute that produces high quality, topical information on international relations and the EU.
- Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)
- The SIRE aims to: develop and sustain a reputation for internationally excellent research in major fields of economics, building around and beyond existing strengths, enabling economics in Scotland to compete effectively in the global academic market place attract high quality graduate students to Scotland, consolidating and enhancing the growing success of...
- United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD)
- The development policy and analysis division (DPAD) is the main development research division of the United Nations secretariat.
- Evidence and Lessons from Latin America (ELLA)
- ELLA is a knowledge sharing and learning platform, funded by the UK Department for International Development. it shares knowledge of recent Latin American experiences on selected economic, environmental and governance issues it supports learning between Latin American, African and South Asian countries It provides a networking platform for organisation...
- Economic Analysis and Policy (EAP)
- Economic Analysis and Policy (EAP) publishes articles from all branches of economics. It features contributions that have policy relevance, both theoretical and applied. EAP particularly seeks to publish passionate, critical, and controversial articles. It is open for orthodox but also unorthodox approaches. EAP runs a strict open access policy. Therefore the journal offers author...
- ePrints Soton - University of Southampton Institutional Research Repository
- ePrints Soton is the University of Southampton's Research Repository and contains a growing collection of literature from the University. ePrints are electronic copies of any research output (journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, theses and other types of research publications even multimedia). They may include unpublished manuscripts and papers. The full text of many of t...
- Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)
- CARDI is a not for profit organisation developed by leaders from the ageing field across Ireland (North and South) including age focused researchers, academics, statutory, voluntary and community sector representatives. It aims to advocate for and advance the ageing research agenda by identifying, coordinating, stimulating, and communicating strategic research on ageing and older peopl...
- League of European Research Universities (LERU)
- The League of European Research Universities (LERU) is an association of twenty-one leading research-intensive universities that share the values of high-quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research. Founded in 2002, LERU advocates education through an awareness of the frontiers of human understanding; the creation of new knowledge through basic research, which is...
- United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Multidisciplinary research institute on development economics
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
- Policy impact evaluation
