Boy looking through a straw fence, Congo
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This seminar addressed the impact of the financial crisis on children and the need to invest in protective measures for children during economic crises.
The latest edition of Development Drums comes from London, where the UK Government hosted a poverty summit last week to discuss the future of development policy. Minouche Shafik, the Permanent Secretary at the UK Department for International Development, talks on Development Drums about the UK Government’s plans to publish a White Paper on development policy.
Woman collecting firewood along the road between Addis Ababa and Harer, Ethiopia
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The Overseas Development Institute aims to close the gap between two major themes in development thinking – poverty reduction and economic growth. To do so it has launched the new Growth and Equity Programme and hosted a two day conference on overcoming the barriers to equitable growth in the context of a global recession.
This report analyses the strengths and weaknesses of alternative health financing mechanisms in the context of West and Central Africa.
This Policy Brief summarises the Synthesis report for a project looking at what works and what does not work in donor support to Citizens Voice and Accountability interventions, and why.
Young orphan children eating together in the community of Njewa in the Lilongwe area of Malawi
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This project examines the impact of past economic shocks and crises upon children’s well-being and seeks to identify potential policy responses to mitigate the harmful effects of the current financial crisis on children.
A call to act
Guest Moderator for HuriTalk e-discussion
This book investigates a topical issue in international forest policy: how to verify the legality of traded timber in ways that will satisfy both the commercial interests of producer states and the social and environmental concerns of civil society and consumers.