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Global Estimates 2014: People displaced by disasters
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014IDMC’s latest Global Estimates report shows that 22 million people were displaced in 2013 by disasters brought on by natural hazard events. As in previous years, the worst affected region is Asia, where 19 million people, or 87.1 per cent of the global total, were displaced during the year.DocumentThe risk of disaster-induced displacement in south-east Asia and China
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014With a focus on countries in south-east Asia and China, this is IDMC’s fourth regional study on disaster-related displacement risk.DocumentDrivers of corruption: a brief review
World Bank, 2014For many years, corruption was seen as primarily, if not exclusively, a political problem with little or no relevance to economic development. Recently, however, the nexus between corruption and governance issues, on theone hand, and development, including economic development, on the other, has become clear.DocumentTrade, employment and conflict: Evidence from the Second Intifada
Households in Conflict Network, 2014Do trade shocks affect conflict? The evidence on this question has so far focused primarily on commodity price shocks. This paper moves beyond this focus and uses data from the entire trade sector to find out whether changes in Palestinian trade in the second half of the 1990s affected the subsequent Palestinian uprising (‘second Intifada’).DocumentAfrica energy outlook - a focus on energy prospects in sub-Saharan Africa
International Energy Agency, 2014Sub-Saharan Africa’s energy sector can be improved to unlock a better life for its citizens.DocumentThe environmental crime crisis. threats to sustainable development from illegal exploitation and trade in wildlife and forest resources
GRID Arendal, 2014Given the alarming pace, level of sophistication, and globalized nature that illegal trade in wildlife has now notoriously achieved, UNEP initiated a Rapid Response Assessment to provide some of the latest data, analysis, and broadest insights into the phenomenon.DocumentClimate change, conflict, and cooperation: global analysis of the resilience of international river treaties to increased water variability
World Bank, 2014This paper focuses on water variability which is predicted to increase due to climate change. It highlights that such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus.DocumentMiddle Eastern youth and the Arab Spring: cross-national variation and trends in values
Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, 2014Scholars and analysts widely claimed that the youth played a crucial role in the making of the revolutionary movements dubbed the Arab Spring. There has been little empirical evidence, however, to substantiate this claim and to document how much the younger age groups differ from the older in value orientation in different Middle Eastern countries.DocumentThe drug trade and governance in Cape Town
Institute for Security Studies, 2014The Western Cape continues to be plagued by the drug trade and accompanying development of organised crime networks. The paper discusses the racial, economic and geographic variations in the drug trade and drug use, and the trade’s growth during the apartheid, transitional and post-apartheid periods.DocumentPreventing and responding to sexual and domestic violence against men: a guidance note for security sector institutions
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2014Sexual and domestic violence (SDV) presents a serious security threat in all societies and one that security sector institutions such as the police, justice system, armed forces and prisons are increasingly beginning to address.Pages