"Making Transition work for Everyone: Poverty and Inequality in Europe and Central Asia" brings together the latest findings on the nature and evolution of poverty and inequality in the region."Making...
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The Center for the Advancement of Health (CFAD) has received a $1.5 million, three-year grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to train a new generation of minority scientists in researching causes o...
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It has been a year since the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Seattle under siege by protesters claiming that unrelenting globalization of trade is adversely affecting the economies of developing...
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To achieve health and independence objectives, the Government requires reliable and valid information on population health outcomes, how equitably these outcomes are distributed across subgroups of th...
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This report is the outcome of a research project, established to explore future trends and issues in population health and health care in the United Kingdom forward to 2015. The aim of the project is ...
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"...The aim of the report is twofold: to contribute towards a better international understanding of the nature and scope of the right to education as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human R...
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This book presents empirical evidence on this contentious and highly politicized issue. Uniquely, it integrates qualitative and quantitative analyses of health care reforms at various stages of implem...
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These contributions, highlight the complexities of development and draw our attention to another issue; that of the poor themselves and how we, as the international development community, need to be m...
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This analysis discusses the existing options and offers a conceptually more refined alternative: the "family/couple/household" (FCH) unit, which assumes income pooling among family members, including ...
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"...The UNCTAD report argues the need for a "New Deal" for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). This should be based on the understanding that more aid is a precondition for effective aid, and that e...
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