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The environmental crime crisis: threats to sustainable development from illegal exploitation and trade in wildlife and forest resources
UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative, 2014This report focuses on the consequences of environmental crime. It argues that the situation has worsened to the extent that illegal trade in wildlife’s impacts are now acknowledged to go well beyond strictly environmental impacts – by seriously undermining economies and livelihoods, good governance, and the rule of law.DocumentAgeing, well-being and development: A comparative study of Brazil and South Africa
New Dynamics of Ageing, 2011Brazil and South Africa represent different models of social policies for addressing ageing. Their success in promoting the well-being of older people in disadvantaged settings shows that there is no single “best practice” approach.DocumentPension design with a large informal labor market: evidence from Chile
Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, 2014Over the last three decades, many governments have considered or introduced fully-funded, privately-managed, individual accounts-based pension programmes. Chile was the earliest and most influential example of such a reform in 1980, and the only one for which more than 29 years of data are available.OrganisationDevelopment Support Center (DSC)
Development Support Center (DSC) is an Indian resource organisation that provides knowledge based support to Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), government agencies and other stakeholders in the fielDocumentThe growth-employment relationship Since 2000
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2014This discussion paper is a brief assessment of the employment challenge that become manifest in the Indian economy during the past decade.DocumentTowards universal pension coverage in Mexico
HelpAge International, 2014Until recently, there was no social pension provision in Mexico; all pensions were earnings-related, financed with government subsidies and payroll taxes. Mexico introduced social pensions long after other Latin American countries, and for that reason had pension coverage of only 22 per cent as late as 2000. Just 13 years later, 88 per cent of older people had pensions.DocumentThe state of social safety nets 2014
World Bank, 2014ocial safety nets are non-contributory transfers designed to provide regular and predictable support to targeted poor and vulnerable people.DocumentWhy ‘the poor’ don’t exist (and what this means for social protection policy)
Development Pathways, 2014The last few years have seen growing calls for countires to expand basic "floors" of social protection that guarantee income security and access to basic services throughout the life cycle.DocumentSustainable mega-events in developing countries: experiences and insights from host cities in South Africa, India and Brazil
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2011The hosting of mega-events has a tremendous effect on developing and emerging countries. These can be positive in terms of economic investment, job creation, skills development and international branding but also can be negative in terms of their environmental footprint, for example via carbon emissions caused by international visitors to the event.