Header Grid Blocks

GTranslate

Shaping policy for development

An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
  • 805 items

Sort by

Search results

  1. The governance of global value chains and the effects of the global financial crisis transmitted to producers in Africa and Asia

    Publication - Journal articles or issues - 11 June 2012
    Journal of Development Studies Volume 48, Issue 6
    Jodie Keane
    This article uses a global value chain (GVC) approach to trace the effects of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) transmitted to low income producers in Africa and Asia through trade. It explores how the governance structures associated with different types of GVC determined producers' vulnerability to the exogenous trade shock of 2008.
    Download

  2. How can Europe make the Common Agricultural Policy coherent with development?

    Publication - Articles and blogs - 4 June 2012
    Bridges Africa Review Volume 1, issue 2
    Nicola Cantore, Sheila Page and Dirk Willem te Velde
    This article discusses the proposed reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy and asks three questions: How do the present CAP and the proposed reforms affect development? Is the CAP a good instrument for achieving its declared goals of supporting and stabilising rural income and protecting the environment? Is the goal of stabilising agricultural prices and incomes within the EU compatible with coherence for development?
    Find out more

  5. Change Readiness Index

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 26 April 2012
    At ODI: Karen Ellis, Nicola Cantore, Isabella Massa, Luigi Sorvillo, Dirk Willem te Velde
    The Change Readiness Index captures government capability and the capability of a country as a whole - including the private sector and civil society - to manage and respond effectively to change.
    Download
  6. Simon Maxwell

    Are countries ready for change?

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 26 April 2012
    'Countries succeed or fall in the modern world depending on their ability to ride the wave of domestic and global change. A new index ranks Chile, Taiwan and Malaysia in the top ten among developing countries; but also, controversially, Tunisia, Kazakhstan and Peru. At the other end of the scale, Zimbabwe is an obvious member of the bottom ten; but so, surprisingly, are donor darlings like Ethiopia and Mozambique.'
    Read and comment

  7. Services trade and regional integration in sub-Saharan Africa: options for continental collaboration

    Publication - Briefing papers - 31 March 2012
    Christian Kingombe
    This brief examines how services affect growth; what are barriers to regional integration in trade in services and how they are being addressed within five regional economic communities (RECs). It explores to what extent the lack of implementation, coordination and harmonization of protocol provisions across the RECs could be improved through a supra-regional continental approach led by the African Union Commission (AUC).
    Download
  9. studiesdownload.html?languageDocument=EN&file=72995

    The trade Chapter of the European Union Association Agreement with Central America

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 27 March 2012
    Steve Woolcock; Jodie Keane; Christopher Stevens; Lorand Bartels
    This report reviews the trade chapter of the EU Central America Association Agreement, an example of the successful completion of a region-to-region agreement and therefore in line with the EU’s aim of promoting regional integration in other regions through trade and association agreements.
    Download

Pages