World Migration Report 2015 Migrants and cities: new partnerships to manage mobility.
World Migration Report 2015 Migrants and cities: new partnerships to manage mobility. June J.H. Lee, Jill Helke, Frank Laczko, International Organization for Migration (2015) The report focuses on migrants and how migration is shaping cities and the situation of migrants in cities. While much of the current international discussion about migration trends and migration policy […]
The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education
The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education Dan Honig và Lant Pritchett, Center for Global Development (2019) Accountability is rightly at the center of the conversation regarding how to improve governance systems, particularly health and education systems. But efforts to address accountability deficits often focus primarily on improving what can be counted and verified-what we […]
How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index
How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index Sabina Alkire, Adriana Conconi, Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio, and Ana Vaz, United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford (2019) This joint handbook by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, provides practical […]
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 José Cuesta, Mario Negre, The World Bank (2016) Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 is the first of an annual flagship report that will inform a global audience comprising development practitioners, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and citizens in general with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and […]
The Gender Wealth Gap by Household Head in Vietnam
The Gender Wealth Gap by Household Head in Vietnam Duc Hong Vo; Phuong Doan Ho; Chi Minh Ho; Michael McAleer, Advances in Decision Sciences, Asia University, Taiwan (2019) While the gender income gap has been examined extensively, the gender wealth gap has largely been ignored, especially for emerging markets such as Vietnam. The lack of […]
Social Innovation and Social Policy – Empowerment of indigenous women the management of sustainable productive organizations in Vietnam and Mexico
Social Innovation and Social Policy – Empowerment of indigenous women the management of sustainable productive organizations in Vietnam and Mexico Medel-Ramírez, Carlos and Medel-López, Hilario, IIESES Universidad Veracruzana, Instituto de Antropología, Universidad Veracruzana (2019) The present proposal, as an area of opportunity, addresses the empowerment of indigenous women, as a mechanism that seeks to achieve […]
Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific
Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific Shamshad Akhtar; Bambang Susantono; Haoliang Xu, United Nations, the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (2018) This report explores how resilience thinking can strengthen public policy to enable the transformation towards sustainable societies envisaged by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development […]
Impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture
Impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture Manuel Barange, Tarûb Bahri, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2018) This technical paper provides the most up-to-date information on the disaggregated impacts of climate change for marine and inland fisheries, and aquaculture, in the context of poverty alleviation and the differential dependency of countries […]
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty Inchauste, Gabriela; Azevedo, João Pedro; Essama-Nssah, The World Bank (2014) Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions […]
