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2013 State of Civil Society: Creating an Enabling Environment

2013 State of Civil Society: Creating an Enabling Environment

socs.civicus.org –

The 2013 CIVICUS State of Civil Society report comes within a global context that poses considerable challenges for civil society, as well as offering some opportunities. Economic crisis continues to affect the publics and governments of many countries, not least those of Europe and North America, where it has impacted on their governments’ engagements with developing countries, and the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, to a lesser extent, South Africa); it has also fostered more...

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D C on June 16, 2013

Putting the Gini Back in the Bottole? 'The Palma' as a policy-relevant measure of inequality

Putting the Gini Back in the Bottole? 'The Palma' as a policy-relevant measure of inequality

In this paper we explore a new, policy-relevant measure of inequality and compare it to the dominant indicator of inequality, the Gini coefficient. The ‘Palma’ as we have called it, is an alternative measure of inequality based on the work of Gabriel Palma. The Palma is based on his observation that, for a snapshot of data covering countries at quite different income levels, the ‘middle classes’ or middle income groups between the ‘rich’ and the ‘poor’ (defined as the five ‘middle’ deciles, 5 more...

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D C on June 6, 2013

The Future of Global Poverty in a Multi-Speed World: New Estimates of Scale and Location, 2010–2030

The Future of Global Poverty in a Multi-Speed World: New Estimates of Scale and Location, 2010–2030

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Smart decisions about where to focus poverty alleviation projects depend on accurate projections of where the bulk of the world’s poor will be living in 10, 20 years or more. So far, though, the picture has been murky. Data limitations and an abundance of modeling strategies complicate forecasts and contribute to wide discrepancies. In this working paper, Peter Edward and Andy Sumner introduce new model of growth, inequality, and poverty that allows comparison of a wide range of input more...

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D C on June 4, 2013

Who pays the price? Hunger: the hidden cost of tax injustice

Who pays the price? Hunger: the hidden cost of tax injustice

christianaid.org.uk –

Christian Aid estimates that businesses that benefit from lack of transparency in trade and financial systems also plays a role in exacerbating hunger: they deprive the poorer countries of some €124 billion ($160 billion) in tax revenues every year – far more than such countries receive in aid. This report is oriented towards supporting the main UK/G8 tax policy asks of the UK’s IF Campaign on hunger. It proposes that tackling tax dodging and ending ﬁnancial secrecy could provide the €39 more...

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D C on June 4, 2013

Evaluating Private Sector Environmental Projects

Evaluating Private Sector Environmental Projects

ow.ly –

Short video interview with one of our experts explaining in less than 6 minutes how we evaluate international environmental projects implemented by the private sector @ http://ow.ly/lFiGn

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Independent Eva... on June 3, 2013

Exploring the links between international business and poverty reduction

Exploring the links between international business and poverty reduction

A large amount of the fresh produce sold in UK supermarkets is imported from developing countries. Millions of individuals supply into them as small-scale producer/growers or find employment in horticulture farms and packhouses. The workforce is often marginalised and vulnerable, with a high proportion of economic migrants leading a precarious existence. This study was undertaken to gain an insight into poverty issues in farms that supply most major UK retailers and to identify how best IPL more...

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D C on May 26, 2013

How India’s Unique ID System is Changing Lives

How India’s Unique ID System is Changing Lives

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Aadhaar is a state-of-the-art online system that provides unique 12-digit ID numbers to residents of India. These numbers can be used for a wide range of public and private services. Aadhaar has already registered over 300 million people in its cloud database. Eventually the system will register all of India's 1.2 billion residents – but that's not all its set out to do. Aadhaar encourages innovation through an interface open to private and public applications. One of its first major more...

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D C to Open Development Technology Alliance on May 5, 2013

Report Card 11 released by UNICEF charts the well-being of children in 29 rich countries

A new report released by UNICEF charts the well-being of children in rich countries. Report Card 11: Child well-being in rich countries, from UNICEF’s Office of Research, examines the state of children across the ‘rich’ world. As debates continue to generate strongly opposed views on the pros and cons of austerity measures and social spending cuts, Report Card 11 charts the achievements of 29 of the world’s advanced economies in ensuring the well-being of their children more...

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John Daly on April 24, 2013

GSDRC Topic Guide: Social protection

This GSDRC resource guide provides a reference for policymakers and practitioners involved in social protection. It introduces some of the best literature on the understandings and types of social protection, the design and implementation problems to be considered, the potential for mainstreaming other development concerns into social protection programming, and the major debates both the donor and academic arenas. New publications and emerging issues will be incorporated on a quarterly basis more...

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GSDRC Applied K... on April 18, 2013

Global financial flows, aid and development

Global financial flows, aid and development

eurodad.org –

This paper sets out all the financial resources potentially available for development. It examines their key characteristics and discusses their poverty and sustainable development impacts, as well as the implications for aid. This discussion could not come at a more important time. Aid is under severe pressure as donors seek to cut budgets and to reorient aid so that direct ‘results’ are more clearly attributable to it. Recent initiatives at European and donor level have sought to change the more...

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D C on April 16, 2013

Development and side effects of remittances in the CIS countries: the case of Republic of Moldova

carim-east.eu –

In the Republic of Moldova remittances have become a much discussed and much analyzed subject, Moldova ranking among the economies with the highest share of remittances in terms of GDP. What is more, remittances, unlike FDI, external trade and other sources of income, seem to have a significant impact on economic growth. Within the present work an attempt has been made to capture the positive and negative spillovers that migrants’ remittances have on a country’s socioeconomic development. The more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 15, 2013

The Impact of Remittance on Poverty and Inequality

The Impact of Remittance on Poverty and Inequality

The authors estimate a household consumption function using two rounds of the nationally representative panel of living standard measurement survey (LSMS) of Nepal and simulate the impacts of remittance on poverty and inequality. They study how these impacts vary with the regional ‘incidence’ and maturity of the migration process and with the country-source of remittance. It is found that remittance has conditional impacts on both poverty and inequality, which largely depends on the ‘incidence more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 30, 2013

Global Risks 2013

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The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013 report is developed from an annual survey of over 1,000 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society who were asked to review a landscape of 50 global risks. The global risk that respondents rated most likely to manifest over the next 10 years is severe income disparity, while the risk rated as having the highest impact if it were to manifest is major systemic financial failure. There are also two risks appearing in the top more...

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John Daly on March 19, 2013

The Multidimensional Poverty Index

The Multidimensional Poverty Index

ophi.org.uk –

Explore global multidimensional poverty around the world using the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative’s mapping tools. The 2013 index has been published.

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John Daly on March 18, 2013

Poor People's Energy Outlook 2013

Poor People's Energy Outlook 2013

cdn1.practicalaction.org –

From lighting in streets and in the home, to power for water pumping, cooking, and basic processing and communications, access to energy enables people to live better lives. It also transforms health-care provision – enabling vaccines to be refrigerated, implements to be sterilized and diagnostic equipment to be powered. Generating international attention and action on energy for community services is vital in order to address the fact that an estimated one billion people are served by health more...

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D C on March 12, 2013

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