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Policy Briefs

Title: Women in the Informal Economy: Experiments in Governance from Emerging Countries
Authors: Shyama V. Ramani, Ajay Thutupalli, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, Veena Ravichandran, Tamás Medovarszki
Date: May 2014

Title: Migrant and Refugee Integration in Global Cities: The Role of Cities and Businesses
Authors: Teressa Juzwiak, Elaine McGregor, Melissa Siegel
Date: May 2014

Title: Multi-actor Approaches to Total Sanitation in Africa
Authors: Kei Otsuki, Weena Gera, David Mungai
Date: December 2013

Title: Death Penalty Policy in Countries in Transition
Authors: Madoka Futamura
Date: December 2013

Title: Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks: Policy Recommendations from the ZeroWIN Project
Authors: Claudia Luepschen, Ruediger Kuehr, Federico Magalini
Date: October 2013

Title: Democratic Trajectories in Africa: Unravelling the Impact of Foreign Aid
Authors: Danielle Resnick
Date: October 2013

Title: Changing climates, moving people: Framing migration, displacement and planned relocation
Authors: Koko Warner, Tamer Afifi, Walter Kalin, Scott Leckie, Beth Ferris, Susan F. Martin, David Wrathall
Date: June 2013

Title: Indicators of Resilience in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes (SEPLs)
Authors: Nadia Bergamini, Robert Blasiak, Pablo Eyzaguirre, Kaoru Ichikawa, Dunja Mijatovic, Fumiko Nakao, Suneetha M. Subramanian
Date: April 2013

Title: Business and the Barrel of a Gun: Understanding Entrepreneurship and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries
Authors: Wim Naudé, Tilman Brück, Philip Verwimp
Date: April 2013

Title: Water Security & the Global Water Agenda
Authors: Sefano Burchi, Pasquale Steduto, Eelco van Beek, Patrick MacQuarrie, Anton Earle, Anders Jägerskog, David Coates et al
Date: March 2013

Title: Achieving Development Success: Strategies and Lessons from the Developing World
Date: March 2013

Title: Industrial Policy for Development
Date: February 2013

Title: Bytes beyond Borders: Strengthening Transboundary Information Sharing on Wildlife Crime through the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) Initiative
Date: February 2013

Title: Development Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries
Date: January 2013

Title: What is the (New) Deal with Fragile States?
Authors: Wim Naudé
Date: January 2012

Title: Research Capacity Development for Environmental Management in Cambodia: Outlining a Multi-Sector Approach
Authors: Kei Otsuki, Shimako Takahashi
Date: February 2011

Title: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Authors: Wim Naudé, Adam Szirmai, Micheline Goedhuys
Date: January 2011

Title: Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Policy Challenges
Authors: Wim Naudé
Date: April 2010

Title: Towards a Human Security Approach to Peacebuilding
Authors: Madoka Futamura, Edward Newman, Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
Date: February 2010

Title: The Responsibility to Protect Minorities and the Problem of the Kin-State
Authors: Nanako Otsuki, Nicholas Turner
Date: February 2010

Title: The Global Financial Crisis and Africa's "Immiserizing Wealth"
Authors: Alexis Habiyaremye, Luc Soete
Date: January 2010

Title: Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Prolific Small Arms
Authors: Vanessa Farr, Henri Myrttinen, Albrecht Schnabel
Date: January 2010

Title: Comparing the Effectiveness of Accountability Mechanisms in Eastern Europe and Latin America
Authors: Vesselin Popovski, Johanna Stratton, Kalle Huebner
Date: October 2009

Title: Toward a Global Science and Technology Policy Agenda for Sustainable Development
Authors: aul A. David, Can Huang, Luc Soete, Adriaan van Zon
Date: September 2009

Title: Partnerships for Women's Health: Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact
Authors: Monika Kruesmann, Martina Timmermann
Date: September 2009

Title: The Global Economic Crisis after One Year: Is a New Paradigm for Recovery in Developing Countries Emerging?
Authors: Wim Naudé
Date: August 2009

Title: Policy Responses to the Global Economic Crisis in Africa
Authors: Augustin Kwasi Fosu, Wim Naudé
Date: August 2009

Title: The Internationalization of Chinese and Indian Firms: Trends, Motivations and Policy Implications
Authors: Suma Athreye, Sandeep Kapur
Date: January 2009

Title: Post-Conflict Countries and Foreign Investment
Authors: Nicholas Turner, Obijiofor Aginam, Vesselin Popovski
Date: November 2008

Title: Governance through Civil Society Engagement in Asia
Authors: Vesselin Popovski, G Shabbir Cheema, Cameron Lowry, Mark Notaras
Date: October 2008

Title: Food Safety and Trade Liberalization in an Age of Globalization
Authors: Obijiofor Aginam, Christina Hansen
Date: September 2008

Title: Post-Conflict Countries and Foreign Investment
Authors: Nicholas Turner, Obijiofor Aginam, Vesselin Popovski
Date: August 2008

Title: Governance through Civil Society Engagement in Asia
Authors: Vesselin Popovski, G Shabbir Cheema, Cameron Lowry, Mark Notaras
Date: July 2008

Title: Legality and Legitimacy in International Order
Authors: Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas Turner
Date: May 2008

Title: Poverty Reduction in China: Is High Growth Enough?
Authors: Guanghua Wan
Date: April 2008

Title: Fragile States
Authors: Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray
Date: March 2008

Title: Vulnerability in Developing Countries
Authors: Wim Naudé, Amelia U. Santos-Paulino, Mark McGillivray
Date: February 2008

Title: The Human Rights Regime in the Americas
Authors: Greg Lowden, Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas Turner, Thomas Karl Wagner
Date: January 2008

Title: Measuring Eco-Innovation
Authors: René Kemp
Date: January 2008

Title: Can We Eradicate Hunger?
Authors: Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis
Date: January 2008

Title: The Significance of Transport Costs in Africa
Authors: Marianne Matthee, Wim Naudé
Date: August 2007

Title: Stranger than Fiction? Understanding Institutional Changes and Economic Development
Authors: Ha-Joon Chang
Date: August 2007

Title: War in Our Time: Reflections on Iraq, Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Authors: Ramesh Thakur
Date: July 2007

Title: Measuring Human Well-being: Key Findings and Policy Lessons
Authors: David Clark, Mark McGillivray
Date: June 2007

Title: Protracted Refugee Situations and Peacebuilding
Authors: Gil Loescher, James Milner, Edward Newman, Gary Troeller
Date: May 2007

Title: Linking Globalization to Poverty
Authors: Machiko Nissanke, Erik Thorbecke
Date: April 2007

Title: War in Our Time: Reflections on Iraq, Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Authors: Ramesh Thakur
Date: January 2007

Title: The Significance of Transport Costs in Africa
Authors: Marianne Matthee, Wim Naudé
Date: January 2007

Title: The Significance of Transport Costs in Africa
Authors: Ha-Joon Chang
Date: January 2007

Title: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Force
Authors: Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas Turner
Date: January 2007

Title: Protracted Refugee Situations and Peacebuilding
Authors: Gil Loescher, James Milner, Edward Newman, Gary Troeller
Date: January 2007

Title: Measuring Human Well-being: Key Findings and Policy Lessons
Authors: David Clark, Mark McGillivray
Date: January 2007

Title: Linking Globalization to Poverty
Authors: Vesselin Popovski, Nicholas Turner
Date: January 2007

Title: Building the Rule of Law under UN Transitional Administration
Authors: Carolyn Bull
Date: January 2007

Title: Building the Rule of Law under UN Transitional Administration
Authors: Michael Fowler, Sumihiro Kuyama
Date: January 2007

Title: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights NGOs
Authors: Daniel Bell, Jean-Marc Coicaud
Date: October 2006

Title: Foreign Direct Investment: Key Issues for Promotion Agencies
Authors: Iornara Costa, Sergey Filippov, Mariana Zanatta
Date: October 2006

Title: Mobilizing Talent for Global Development
Authors: Andrs Solimano
Date: August 2006

Title: International Criminal Accountability and Children's Rights
Authors: Karen Arts, Vesselin Popovski
Date: July 2006

Title: Fiscal Policy for Poverty Reduction, Reconstruction, and Growth
Authors: Tony Addison, Alan Roe, Matthew Smith
Date: June 2006

Title: Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Transport Alternatives: Issues for Developing Countries
Authors: Grant Boyle, Lynn Mytelka
Date: May 2006

Title: Open Source and Open Standards: A New Frontier for Economic Development?
Authors: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Philip Schmidt
Date: March 2006

Title: The Impact of Spoilers on Peace Processes and Peacebuilding
Authors: Edward Newman, Oliver Richmond
Date: January 2006

Title: Reforming from the Top - A Leaders' 20 Summit
Authors: Andrew F. Cooper, John English, Ramesh Thakur
Date: October 2005

Title: Rising Spatial Disparities and Development
Authors: Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables
Date: September 2005

Title: Regulating Bioprospecting: Institutions for Drug Research, Access and Benefit-Sharing
Authors: Padmashree Gehl Sampath
Date: April 2005

Title: Regulating Bioprospecting: Institutions for Drug Research, Access and Benefit-Sharing
Authors: Padmashree Gehl Sampath
Date: April 2005

Title: Reforming from the Top: A Leaders' 20 Summit
Authors: Andrew F. Cooper, John English, Ramesh Thakur
Date: April 2005

Title: New Sources of Development Finance: Funding the Millenium Development Goals
Authors: A.B. Atkinson
Date: September 2004

Title: Sustainability of External Development Financing to Developing Countries
Authors: Matthew Odedokun
Date: March 2004

Title: Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
Authors: Christina Boswell, Jeff Crisp
Date: February 2004

Title: e-development? Development and the New Economy
Authors: Matthew Clarke
Date: December 2003

Title: Work In Progress, Volume 17, Number 1
Date: May 2003

Title: Africa’s Recovery from Conflict: Making Peace Work for the Poor
Authors: Tony Addison
Date: March 2003

Title: Work In Progress, Volume 16, Number 3
Authors: United Nations University
Date: June 2002

Title: Governing Globalization: Issues and Institutions
Authors: Julius Court, Deepak Nayyar
Date: June 2002

Title: Inequality, Growth and Poverty in the Era of Liberalization and Globalization
Authors: Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Julius Court
Date: November 2001

Title: Access to Land and Land Policy Reforms
Authors: Alaine de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet
Date: April 2001

Title: Social and Economic Policies to Prevent Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Authors: Jeni Klugman
Date: January 1999