A commentary on the development aspects of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Review, published in July 2013.

The key objective of this paper is to stimulate a debate on potential employment indicators for a post-2015 framework. As the discussions around a post-2015 agenda intensify, we offer concrete and innovative proposals to improve the monitoring of employment outcomes in a future development framework.

This paper focuses on political risk and argues that if international assistance is to promote political and institutional reform more effectively, it needs to become smarter – more politically aware, better attuned to context, more pragmatic and flexible, and, crucially, less risk averse. Understanding and managing political risk better and more systematically is essential to this.

This paper considers what will be necessary to achieve goals for universal and sustainable access to infrastructure, specifically water, energy and transport.