Chede International Development Network » Chede Resource Centre http://chede.org Supporting African village communities in food and agricultural production, processing and trade. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:40:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Law’s Majestic Equality? The Distributive Impact of Litigating Social and Economic Rights http://chede.org/2012/04/the-laws-majestic-equality-the-distributive-impact-of-litigating-social-and-economic-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-laws-majestic-equality-the-distributive-impact-of-litigating-social-and-economic-rights http://chede.org/2012/04/the-laws-majestic-equality-the-distributive-impact-of-litigating-social-and-economic-rights/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:40:24 +0000 Faith http://chede.org/?p=1568 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]]> 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 decisions with broader applicability tend to avoid the potential anti-poor bias of courts, whereas areas dominated by individual litigation and individualized effects are less likely to have pro-poor outcomes.

Using data on social and economic rights cases in five countries, the authors estimate the potential distributive impact of litigation by examining whether the poor are over or under-represented among the beneficiaries of litigation, relative to their share of the population. They find that the impact of courts varies considerably across the cases, but is positive and pro-poor in two of the five countries (India and South Africa), distribution-neutral in two others (Indonesia and Brazil), and sharply anti-poor in Nigeria. Overall, the results of litigation are much more positive for the poor than conventional wisdom would suggest.

This paper is a product of the Human Development and Public Services Team, Development Research Group. It is part of a larger effort by the World Bank to provide open access to its research and make a contribution to development policy discussions around the world. Policy Research Working Papers are also posted on the Web at http://econ.worldbank.org.

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]]> http://chede.org/2012/04/the-laws-majestic-equality-the-distributive-impact-of-litigating-social-and-economic-rights/feed/ 0 Le rôle de la France et des Français dans la politique européenne de coopération au développement http://chede.org/2012/02/le-ro%cc%82le-de-la-france-et-des-franc%cc%a7ais-dans-la-politique-europe%cc%81enne-de-coope%cc%81ration-au-de%cc%81veloppement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=le-ro%25cc%2582le-de-la-france-et-des-franc%25cc%25a7ais-dans-la-politique-europe%25cc%2581enne-de-coope%25cc%2581ration-au-de%25cc%2581veloppement http://chede.org/2012/02/le-ro%cc%82le-de-la-france-et-des-franc%cc%a7ais-dans-la-politique-europe%cc%81enne-de-coope%cc%81ration-au-de%cc%81veloppement/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:45:34 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1450 Témoignage 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.

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]]> Témoignage 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.

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]]> http://chede.org/2012/02/le-ro%cc%82le-de-la-france-et-des-franc%cc%a7ais-dans-la-politique-europe%cc%81enne-de-coope%cc%81ration-au-de%cc%81veloppement/feed/ 0 Insights and Implications for Development Cooperation http://chede.org/2012/02/insights-and-implications-for-development-cooperation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=insights-and-implications-for-development-cooperation http://chede.org/2012/02/insights-and-implications-for-development-cooperation/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:40:27 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1447 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]]> 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.

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]]> http://chede.org/2012/02/insights-and-implications-for-development-cooperation/feed/ 0 The Aid Effectiveness Agenda: The benefits of going ahead http://chede.org/2012/02/the-aid-effectiveness-agenda-the-benefits-of-going-ahead/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-aid-effectiveness-agenda-the-benefits-of-going-ahead http://chede.org/2012/02/the-aid-effectiveness-agenda-the-benefits-of-going-ahead/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:38:03 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1443 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]]> 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 influence of the EU including the member states, and which relate to the relationships between public authorities.

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]]> http://chede.org/2012/02/the-aid-effectiveness-agenda-the-benefits-of-going-ahead/feed/ 0 Challenges for Africa-EU relations in 2012 http://chede.org/2012/02/challenges-for-africa-eu-relations-in-2012/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=challenges-for-africa-eu-relations-in-2012 http://chede.org/2012/02/challenges-for-africa-eu-relations-in-2012/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:34:36 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1440 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]]> 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 possible.

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]]> http://chede.org/2012/02/challenges-for-africa-eu-relations-in-2012/feed/ 0 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2010 http://chede.org/2011/09/the-state-of-world-fisheries-and-aquaculture-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-state-of-world-fisheries-and-aquaculture-2010 http://chede.org/2011/09/the-state-of-world-fisheries-and-aquaculture-2010/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:11:47 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1415 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]]> 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 an informed, comprehensive, balanced and worldwide view of fisheries, aquaculture and related issues…

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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
Rome, 2010

]]> http://chede.org/2011/09/the-state-of-world-fisheries-and-aquaculture-2010/feed/ 0 Tools and Methods for Sharing Knowledge: The CGIAR’s Wiki Approach http://chede.org/2011/09/tools-and-methods-for-sharing-knowledge-the-cgiars-wiki-approach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tools-and-methods-for-sharing-knowledge-the-cgiars-wiki-approach http://chede.org/2011/09/tools-and-methods-for-sharing-knowledge-the-cgiars-wiki-approach/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:26:36 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1408 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]]> 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 that drives the Information and Communications Technology and Knowledge Management (ICT-KM) Program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

The Institutional Knowledge Sharing (KS) Project of this Program together with its CGIAR Center partners has been experimenting with a range of KS tools and methods over the past five years and has recently been assembling these and many others into a toolkit (http://kstoolkit.wikis.cgiar.org).

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]]> http://chede.org/2011/09/tools-and-methods-for-sharing-knowledge-the-cgiars-wiki-approach/feed/ 0 Freeze the footprint of food http://chede.org/2011/09/freeze-the-footprint-of-food/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freeze-the-footprint-of-food http://chede.org/2011/09/freeze-the-footprint-of-food/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:21:39 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1406 Jason Clay identifies eight steps that, taken together, could enable farming to feed 10 billion people and keep Earth habitable.

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]]> Jason Clay identifies eight steps that, taken together, could enable farming to feed 10 billion people and keep Earth habitable.

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]]> http://chede.org/2011/09/freeze-the-footprint-of-food/feed/ 0 No Credit Due: The World Bank and IMF in Africa http://chede.org/2011/08/no-credit-due-the-world-bank-and-imf-in-africa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-credit-due-the-world-bank-and-imf-in-africa http://chede.org/2011/08/no-credit-due-the-world-bank-and-imf-in-africa/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:42 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1400 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]]> 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 engagement with developing economies. It is divided into two parts. The first deals with the history and economics of international development policy vis-a-vis developing economies. It starts by explaining the WB’s origins and objectives, and then addresses the origins, objectives, and outcomes of its initial project-based lending programme. We argue that the WB’s earlier poverty alleviation project failed to achieve its stated objectives, and worsened rather than resolved problems in third world countries in which these projects were undertaken.

We also interrogate the events and conditions that led to a shift by the WB from project-based lending to policy-based lending, as well as the modalities of this shift. We argue that, through policy-based lending, the WB effectively controls the economies of borrowing countries, leaving them very little room to formulate and implement autonomous economic policies. The WB’s conditionalities, sometimes combined with that of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have compounded the economic crises in numerous third world countries, with Africa the worst affected.

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]]> http://chede.org/2011/08/no-credit-due-the-world-bank-and-imf-in-africa/feed/ 0 The Environmental Food Crisis: The Environment’s Role In Averting Future Food Crises http://chede.org/2011/08/the-environmental-food-crisis-the-environment%e2%80%99s-role-in-averting-future-food-crises/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-environmental-food-crisis-the-environment%25e2%2580%2599s-role-in-averting-future-food-crises http://chede.org/2011/08/the-environmental-food-crisis-the-environment%e2%80%99s-role-in-averting-future-food-crises/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:31:36 +0000 admin http://chede.org/?p=1397 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]]> 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 factors underpinning the food crisis and to assess trends, UNEP commissioned a Rapid Response team of internal and international experts. Their conclusions are presented in this report launched during UNEP’s 25th Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environ- ment Forum.

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