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Getting hold of clean water can be a costly business in countries where there’s no official water supply. But the cost of going without is even higher. Find out where is the most expensive place in the world to buy water. 
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Institutional investors across the world are ready to engage with and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals, finds a report published today by ShareAction.
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poverty and gender inequality go hand-in-hand. Being born in a poor country and being born female amount to a double whammy for girls and women: they are significantly worse off than their counterparts in richer countries, and in every sphere they are hit harder by poverty than men
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Schraven, Benjamin / Bernhard Trautner / Julia Leininger / Markus Loewe / Jörn Grävingholt Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
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This paper compares the career effects of overseas and domestic PhD training for scientists working in an emerging economy, South Africa.
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Oxfam's Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (VRA) tool develops a holistic, landscape-wide understanding of vulnerability and links up actors across various levels of governance to jointly identify and analyse root causes of vulnerabilities for distinct social
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New report from ITU and Cisco systems The joint report argues that strong demand for IoT technologies has created a huge array of IoT devices that are readily available, affordable and scalable for developing countries, providing an ideal platform to energize growth in emerging economies and improve people’s quality of life significantly – all with minimal investment. http://www.itu.int/en/action/broadband/Documents/Harnessing-IoT-Global-Development.pdf
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House of Commons Select committee report on responding to major disease outbreaks.
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shows that the wealth of the poorest half of the world's population - that's 3.6 billion people - has fallen by a trillion dollars since 2010.
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2015 theme work for Human development
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This report aims to summarize the results of research from the Quality of Government approach in terms of its importance for development and aid policy. In the
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United Nations Water: Coordinates the UN’s work on water and sanitation for a better world
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The gap between the rich and the rest is growing. Tax havens are at the heart of the inequality crisis, enabling corporations and wealthy individuals to dodge paying their fair share of tax. This prevents states from funding vital public services and combating
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This desk review provides an introduction to some of the indicators, methods, tools, challenges and best practices that will help development practitioners measure the effectiveness of agricultural training, specifically as it relates to women and women’s economic
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The number of people in need as a result of the conflict in Syria continues to rise, but the international aid response has failed to keep up. The donor conference in London on 4 February 2016 is another opportunity to reverse that trend and put Syrian civilians
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Since 2011, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has been conducting rigorous evaluations annually on samples of randomly selected mature projects (projects which are a substantial way through implementation or have finished). The purpose of these evaluations is to help Download the full manual.
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120 page report from the United Nations Office For the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). presents global- and country-level data-and-trend analysis about humanitarian crises and assistance.
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An increased likelihood for all risks, looks set to shape the global agenda in the coming year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2016 has found.
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World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2016 finds risks on the rise in 2016 The Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological.
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The Department for International Development’s spending on humanitarian interventions has almost trebled between 2010-11 and 2014-15 to more than £1 billion per year, rising as a share of its total budget from 6% to 14%.
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Report from the National Audit office
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(UNOCHA) details on aid to crises and emergencies and to specific nations.
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This paper explores the role of multilateral climate funds in supporting mitigation, adaptation and promoting climate resilient development in the agriculture sector.
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