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Growth accelerations
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, this paper focuses on turning points in growth performance.DocumentPoverty, international migration and asylum
United Nations University, 2004This paper discusses the issues surrounding poverty, international migration and asylum.DocumentAid and conflict: the policy coherence challenge
WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004This paper explores the security dimensions of policy coherence for development (PCD) work, arguing that the future of aid lies in the intersection between security and development. Illustrating the interlinkages between security and development, the paper reports that there is growing evidence of a two-way causality.DocumentTime for Transparency: Coming clean on oil, mining and gas revenues
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004Across the globe money that should be funding development is being misappropriated by corrupt elites. In Angola a quarter of the state’s annual oil income goes missing. In many resources rich countries, mining and energy companies facilitate off-the-books payments as part of anti-competitive, under-the-table methods of winning business.DocumentHuman Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: a compact among nations to end human poverty
Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2003This year's report proposes a policy approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by addressing the structural constraints that impede economic growth and human development.DocumentPoverty reduction, equity and climate change: challenges for global governance
Overseas Development Institute, 2003This paper first focuses on the poverty and sustainable development issues of climate change, considering the potential and limitations of win-win poverty and environmental options. It concludes by assessing strategies for linking poverty, equity and environmental outcomes.Policy conclusions include‘Equity’ is key to future North-South cooperation in climate change ‘mitigation’.DocumentGlobalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?
Save the Children Fund, 2002This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefitsDocumentWomen, environment and development: IISD bibliography
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999DocumentGlobal governance & UN reform: IISD bibliography
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1999
