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  Measuring ‘subjective resilience’: using people’s perceptions to quantify household resilience

  Overseas Development Institute, 2015

  How should we measure a household’s resilience? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of ‘objective’ frameworks and methods of indicator selection.
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  Review of targets for the Sustainable Development Goals: the science perspective

  International Council for Science, 2015

  This report is an independent scientific review of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets, as submitted to the UN General Assembly by the UN Open Working Group (OWG).
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  Inequality, economic growth, and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

  African Development Bank, 2013

  The wave of protests and unrests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since 2011 has continued in different forms. In addition to demands for more economic and political inclusion, the protests had been largely sparked by a refusal to any longer tolerate the gross socio-economic inequality perpetuated by long-entrenched “elite” in power.
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  The luck of the development draw: environmental volatility and the takeoff to modern economic growth

  Social Science Research Network, 2012

  This paper tests the implications of a model which gives a central role to luck − in the form of good versus bad draws − in the process of economic development. An obvious potential source of good versus bad draws is environmental volatility, particularly in the context of developing economies which tend to be heavily dependent on agricultural output.