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Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. Five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, crises of economy, climate and conflict mean the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. Most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned- 60% comes from either inheritance, cronyism, corruption or […]
https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/fiscal-policies/world-revenue-longitudinal-database This IMF database tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s. WoRLD tracks directly 9 key components of tax and non-tax revenues, which together contribute about 82 percent of government revenue globally. Some key insights include enabling users to analyse trends. It can be downloaded in excel or stata format.
Economic growth in developing Asia and the Pacific remains steady, but US policy changes under the incoming Trump administration may impact the region.
How to Use National MPIs as a Policy Tool: From Metrics to Policy" is a comprehensive guide developed by UNDP and OPHI to help policymakers leverage the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) beyond mere measurement, using it as a practical tool to shape public policy.
This latest report on Africa’s development, which is based on this year’s Report of the United Nations Secretary-General on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), confronts the urgent need to reform Africa’s debt structures, providing a roadmap for African nations to escape the...
This review of current State practice shows that authorities in many countries have been confronted with individuals claiming international protection due to the impacts of disasters and climate change.
Regional Humanitarian Partnership Week – Asia Pacific 2023. Theme: Sparking global change through local solutions in humanitarian action webinar videos
Abstract: This working paper incorporates insights from the University of York’s Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) Decolonising Development Research Podcast series with existing literature to examine the opportunities and challenges of decolonising research.
This session addressed pertinent conceptual and legal aspects of how the international protection rules expressed by refugee law and human rights law apply to claims relating to disaster contexts and climate change in the country of origin, including:
Is international protection the appropriate framework to apply? How can we best conceptualise protection risks in disaster contexts? How do refugee definitions apply to claims based on these facts? When does human rights law prevent removal to such disaster situations?
Chaired by Jocelyn Perry(Opens in new window) (Refugees International and University of Oxford), the session draws on the Refugee Law Initiative Declaration on International Protection in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change, released in June 2024, and the accompanying background research paper published in the prestigious International Journal of Refugee Law. Prof David Cantor presented.
The RLI promulgates a Declaration on International Protection every two years. The Declaration draws on the refugee law expertise of the global research networks hosted at RLI. Its principal audience includes refugee status decision-makers, judges, lawyers, policymakers, scholars and others.
UNHCR and the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center Questionnaire Dashboard https://ctrk.klclick.com/l/01JH5CS4B6G4YCEQRPBEF15FC0_36 enables users to explore questionnaires hosted on the Microdata Library related to forced displacement
It is possible to filer searches by country, year, population type , and topics to locate the most appropriate survey and its datasets
This report highlights how many women and girls still lack adequate access to public water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in Asia and the Pacific and explains why focusing on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) can level the playing field.
“Introduction: … This report lays out our proposals for how to ensure faster and more decisive humanitarian decision-making while wasting fewer resources on bureaucratic processes. In a nutshell, there is scope to reduce internal process, rationalize overlapping and large coordination bodies, prioritize between indispensable and optional international meetings and ensure our in-country presence is located where it is most effective, with focused leadership at national, regional and global levels
As record-breaking droughts are becoming a new normal around the globe, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) launch the most comprehensive global publication on drought risks and solutions as an urgent wake-up call for world leaders and citizens. The World Drought Atlas depicts the systemic nature of drought risks for both specialist and non-specialist audiences. Through dozens of maps, infographics, and case studies, it illustrates how drought risks are interconnected across sectors like energy, agriculture, river transport, and international trade and how they can trigger cascading effects, fueling inequalities and conflicts and threatening public health.
This discussion paper reviews seven key examples of how social norms are being measured in efforts to achieve gender equality. Through this analysis, several cross-cutting shortcomings become evident, limiting the effectiveness of norms-based work in improving gender equality outcomes. The paper concludes by outlining components of a future framework for measuring social norms and gender equality, suggesting what should be measured, why, how, and by whom.
BAKU – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, unveiled today the “Refugees for Climate Action” network, an initiative designed to amplify the voices of displaced communities in the global climate debate.
The network brings together for the first time eight forcibly displaced people from across the world who are passionate about climate activism and advocating for climate justice, action and inclusion of refugees and displaced communities in policy discussions.
Climate change is impacting human health in myriad ways, including by increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, .
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