Optimism about the use of laws, constitutions, and rights to achieve social change has never been higher among practitioners. But the academic literature is skeptical that courts can direct resources toward the poor. This paper develops a nuanced account in which not all courts are the same. Countries and policy areas characterized by judicial . . . → Read More: The Law’s Majestic Equality? The Distributive Impact of Litigating Social and Economic Rights
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Chede Resource CentreLe rôle de la France et des Français dans la politique européenne de coopération au développementTémoignage de Dieter Frisch, ancien Directeur Général du Développement à la Commission Européenne, présenté au Colloque « La France, l’Europe et l’aide au développement – des Traités de Rome à nos jours », Paris, 8 Décembre 2011. Download: Le rôle de la France et des français dans la politique européenne de coopération au développement This research provides fresh perspectives on the topic of capacity and its development. It does so by highlighting endogenous perspectives: how capacity develops from within, rather than focusing on what outsiders do to induce it. The research also embraces ideas on capacity development drawn from literature outside the context of development cooperation. Download: ECDPM . . . → Read More: Insights and Implications for Development Cooperation The purpose of this study is to estimate the gains that can be made in terms of aid effectiveness by the implementation of the commitments of the Paris Declaration (PD) and the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) by the EU and its member states. The focus is on reforms which are under the exclusive . . . → Read More: The Aid Effectiveness Agenda: The benefits of going ahead ECDPM’s annual Challenges Paper seeks to identify important debates that can be expected in the coming year and beyond and to sketch the backdrop against which these will unfold. The aim is not to predict outcomes, but to situate debates that concern Africa-EU relations so as to facilitate as wide a stakeholder engagement as . . . → Read More: Challenges for Africa-EU relations in 2012 As the world endeavours to recover from the combined impact of a global food price crisis, financial crash and economic recession, many hundreds of millions of people are facing increased uncertainty and real hunger. It is in this context that The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010 aims to provide all concerned with . . . → Read More: The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010 For knowledge creators, brokers, and users alike, it’s perhaps stating the obvious to declare that we live in an increasingly interconnected and complex world. While this modern truism has some annoying consequences—information overload being among the most pervasive—we shouldn’t lose sight of the enormous opportunities on offer. At least that’s part of the thinking . . . → Read More: Tools and Methods for Sharing Knowledge: The CGIAR’s Wiki Approach Jason Clay identifies eight steps that, taken together, could enable farming to feed 10 billion people and keep Earth habitable. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/475287a.html The Institute for Global Dialogue is an independent South African non-government organisation that provides policy analysis on the changing global environment and its impact on South Africa for the benefit of government and civil society. This paper seeks to explain the policy-based lending progamme of the World Bank (WB), and the significance of its . . . → Read More: No Credit Due: The World Bank and IMF in Africa In 2008 food prices surged plunging millions back into hunger and triggering riots from Egypt to Haiti and Cameroon to Ban- gladesh. Whereas fuel prices, which also surged, have fallen back sharply food prices remain problematic with wheat, corn and soya still higher than they were 12-18 months ago. In order to understand the . . . → Read More: The Environmental Food Crisis: The Environment’s Role In Averting Future Food Crises The recent spike in food prices has led to a renewal of interest in agricultural issues and in the long-term drivers of food prices. Urbanization has been mentioned as one possible cause of higher food prices. In this paper we examine some of the links through which urbanization is considered to be contributing to . . . → Read More: Is Urbanization Contributing to Higher Food Prices? This is the first issue in an evolving series of state of the African cities reports, intended to provide both a tool and a platform for debate on urban issues within Africa. It aims to provide focus and encouragement to African governments at the central and local level as well as to other key . . . → Read More: The State of African Cities 2008: A Framework for Addressing Urban Challenges in Africa This paper examines the tensions between the long-term goal of building government capacity as the basis for sustainable development and the equally important but shorter-term goal of securing a political settlement and delivering basic security. When these two objectives are pursued separately, they can conflict with each other. The need for quick results on . . . → Read More: Reconnecting Joined-up Approaches: Nation-building through state-building Since January 2006, the prices of corn, wheat, and soybeans on world markets have more than doubled, and rice prices have tripled. These price increases have contributed to 5.1% food inflation in the United States, but the impact on consumers in developing countries is much greater. This is because food represents a much . . . → Read More: The Food Crisis and its Implications for Agricultural Development Rising prices have a way of shining a bright light on any sector, no matter how overlooked previously. The rapid run-up in food prices is no exception. Food may be an essential good, but when food prices spent decades moving downward, the food sector held little interest for policymakers and investors. Now, with the . . . → Read More: Responding to the World Food Crisis: Getting on the Right Track In recent years, there has been growing concern over the impact of weak or ineffective states. Sovereign states are expected to perform certain minimal functions for the security and well being of their citizens, as well as the smooth working of the international system. In simple terms, people need states to work. States that . . . → Read More: Fragile States: Defining Difficult Environments for Poverty Reduction Statebuilding has become a central focus of multidimen- sional peace operations in war-torn societies. But efforts to construct legitimate, effective state institutions are rife with tensions and contradictions. Understanding these tensions and contradictions is essential for anticipating many of the practical problems that international agencies face in the course of statebuilding operations and for . . . → Read More: Managing Contradictions: The Inherent Dilemmas of Postwar Statebuilding Published by Islamic Relief Worldwide. Inspired by Islamic teachings, the number of Muslim faith-based relief and development organisations in the United Kingdom has grown rapidly since the 1980s. There are now 11 Muslim charities each with an annual income of more than £1 million whose focus is specifically on providing humanitarian relief and promoting . . . → Read More: Translating faith into development More than at any time in the past three decades, the world’s attention is focused this year on food and agriculture. A variety of factors have combined to raise food prices to the highest levels since the 1970s (in real terms), with serious implications for food security among poor populations around the world. One . . . → Read More: The State Of Food And Agriculture: Biofuels: Prospects, Risks and Opportunities This document is a compilation of papers authored by national officers with the collaboration of FAO professionals involved in food security using food security statistics from 11 countries in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. The document also includes papers reporting on methodological issues related to the estimation of food deprivation in countries in terms . . . → Read More: Deriving Food Security Information From National Household Budget Surveys |
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