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December 2025 Research team: Humanitarian Advisory Group, ECOWEB, Thura Thun, NSDation, and GLOW Consultants Categories HH Power People and Local Leadership Featured Localisation Download PDF Research Brief Communities are the first to mobilise in crises and the ones who continue responding long...
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May 7, 8:11 AM
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Since the pandemic, the IMF’s leadership has been urging countries to pursue more progressive tax policies, backed up by the Fund’s own research. Despite this encouraging development, the IMF’s policy advice on tax in its Article IV reports since the pandemic has been skewed towards regressive taxation. This indicates its continued insistence on austerity as […]
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May 6, 7:37 AM
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How SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest. Uncensored. Kenya’s AI-driven health reforms driving up costs | An investigation has found that an AI system used to predict how much Kenyans can afford to pay for healthcare has made healthcare more expensive for the poor. The system, introduced in 2024 to replace Kenya’s decades-old national insurance system, has sparked protests, as healthcare contributions for millions of people are now calculated using a formula described as “flawed” and lacking transparency.
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April 14, 11:48 AM
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What a Waste 3.0 is the third edition of the World Bank Group’s What a Waste series, following the 2012 and 2018 publications. It updates and expands these earlier publications and provides a global reference dataset on municipal solid waste in the context of a transition toward circularity, drawing on the most recent publicly accessible data from 217 countries and economies and 262 cities. This edition consolidates data on waste generation, composition, collection, treatment, and disposal, and presents trends by region and income group. It also includes information on legislation, institutional arrangements, plastics management, private sector participation, employment, environmental impacts, and the costs and financing of municipal waste services.
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April 14, 11:44 AM
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Access and equity: Countdown to 2030
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March 31, 3:12 PM
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has launched the Routes Monitor, a new data platform offering the most comprehensive picture to date of mixed movements across and along major global routes. Updated monthly, the platform brings together multiple sources of information – including from UNHCR, national authorities, UN and NGO partners, and media and social media monitoring – to show evolving trends, highlight protection needs and support more effective responses along entire journeys
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March 19, 5:13 AM
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No Representation, No Peace exposes how Africa’s exclusion from permanent membership on the UN Security Council continues to undermine global peace and security. Drawing on case studies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Western Sahara, the report shows how decisions taken without African representation have fuelled implementation failures, sidelined local voices, and entrenched […]
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March 14, 7:32 AM
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Loading... Loading… Report downloads The Least Developed Countries Report 2025 (Overview) (UNCTAD/LDC/2025 (Overview)) - 10 Feb 2026 English | Français | Español | العربية | 简体中文 | Русский The Least Developed Countries Report 2025: Are services the new path to structural transformation?
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March 9, 4:45 AM
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The Economic Enterprises Data Tracker India https://enterprisetracker.ceda.ashoka.edu.in/ has been created by by the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis it provides free access to data on India’s formal and informal enterprises from Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE), and earlier National Sample Survey (NSS). It standardizes key variables to provide insights on investment, productivity, credit, employment, and enterprise characteristics. Users can explore national and state-level trends through interactive charts, visualizations, and downloadable datasets. Information on data content is provided via the website
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March 2026 By Humanitarian Advisory Group Categories Annual reports Featured Download PDF At HAG, we work with various humanitarian actors; donors, governments, NGOs, UN agencies and the private sector to better serve crisis affected communities across the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
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May 7, 8:04 AM
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This discussion paper examines how FAIR for ALL partners engaged with the private sector to advance fairer and more sustainable global trade and value chains. Drawing on insights from eight countries and regions, it identifies the key factors that shape effective private sector engagement amid diverse and often complex challenges. The findings show how civil […]
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April 27, 4:50 AM
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OVER 340 civil society organisations have signed an open statement(external link) calling on governments around the world to build a coalition to “free themselves” from a little-known international system of secretive tribunals. Published ahead of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels(external link), taking place in Colombia at the end of April, the statement says this system, formally known as investor-state dispute settlement or ISDS, “threatens a just transition from fossil fuels and the urgent need for a social and ecological transformation for people and the planet.
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April 14, 11:46 AM
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The United Nations Economist Network (UNEN) has launched its new Working Paper Series. This inaugural paper explores innovative approaches to measuring sustainable development and well‑being beyond traditional economic indicators.
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April 14, 11:43 AM
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Countries have agreed to mobilize $300 billion a year by 2035 as part of a broader $1.3 trillion climate finance ambition.
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I have been (trying) to keep track of the latest AI-related thinking and research that is relevant to low- and middle-income countries. It is hard to know where to look and what to trust, here are the best resources and platforms I have come across.
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March 31, 3:09 PM
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as a one-stop shop for data, legislation, policies and evidence of progress to accelerate efforts towards the elimination of child labour.
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March 19, 5:14 AM
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Women in Nepal and the Philippines, along with those in other Asian countries, suffer disproportionately from disasters caused by natural hazards yet are excluded from leadership in disaster preparedness and response (DPR). Even as women make a crucial contribution to community resilience, they are hindered from DPR participation by restrictive social norms, limited financial resources, […]
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March 16, 4:32 PM
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Jamaica MPI MPI originally introduced: 2025 Latest MPI publication The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) published the country's first national MPI in 2025, followed by an official launch in January 2026.
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Africa Redefining Critical Minerals For A Shared Future: South South Solidarity in Action
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14th State of Power report https://www.tni.org/en/mapping-fascism from the Transnational Institute Examines authoritarianism and power in the world. Mapping the role of big tech, financial institutions and networks f fascism and the far right worldwide.
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