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Post-2015 International Development Agenda: Exploring Issues Related to Means of Implementation
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Post-2015 International Development Agenda: Exploring Issues Related to Means of Implementation

  This paper focuses on the lessons learnt from the delivery of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); points out specific implementation issues reflected in various post-2015 reports; analyses the financial
October 24, 2014
Ensuring Good Governance and Effective Institutions: Can We Afford to Ignore Capacity Issues?
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Ensuring Good Governance and Effective Institutions: Can We Afford to Ignore Capacity Issues?

  This paper presents an assessment of the formulation of the illustrative goal “ensure good governance and effective institutions” put forward by the United Nations High Level Panel on the
June 13, 2014
Measuring of Progress of Decent Work to Support the MDGs and Post-MDGs
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Measuring of Progress of Decent Work to Support the MDGs and Post-MDGs

  Measuring of Progress of Decent Work to Support the MDGs and Post-MDGs This paper engages with the concepts of sustainable development, human development and decent work according to the
May 24, 2014
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Gender Sensitive Education Financing
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Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Gender Sensitive Education Financing

  This paper used an empirical model based on a micro-theoretic foundation to estimate the impact of intergovernmental transfers on education sector. The results show that increasing the amount of
May 23, 2014
Social Protection and MDGs in Sri Lanka: Implications for the Post-2015 Agenda
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Social Protection and MDGs in Sri Lanka: Implications for the Post-2015 Agenda

  The paper highlights the role of social protection in achieving MDGs. The Sri Lankan experience demonstrates that social protection policies and programs carried out by the successive governments over
May 22, 2014
Sustainable Access For All: Building Sustainability into Universal Energy Access
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Sustainable Access For All: Building Sustainability into Universal Energy Access

   This paper investigates whether the goal of universal energy access in the post-MDGs dialogue sufficiently addresses the challenges faced by the Southern countries. It argues that though the notion
May 20, 2014
The changing intersection of society and development goals: An examination aimed at improving policy-making
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The changing intersection of society and development goals: An examination aimed at improving policy-making

   The paper explores the links between the MDGs and Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, it examines the interconnection between climate vulnerability, water, sanitation and health in Nepal. The study
May 16, 2014
Is the Current Booming Growth in Africa Worth Celebrating? Some Evidence from Tanzania
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Is the Current Booming Growth in Africa Worth Celebrating? Some Evidence from Tanzania

   The paper finds a missing link in the relationship between growth and long term poverty reduction, which is perceived to have resulted from a premature structural transformation from agriculture
May 15, 2014
Understanding the role of social exclusion in progress towards MDGs for the excluded groups
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Understanding the role of social exclusion in progress towards MDGs for the excluded groups

   The paper focuses on discrimination, inequality and poverty. It proposes to look deeper into the reasons for the gap between discriminated groups and ‘the rest’ to get some recommendations.
May 13, 2014
Looking Beyond Aid to Fund Africa’s Development
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Looking Beyond Aid to Fund Africa’s Development

   The paper calls on African countries to explore more intensely supplementary vehicles of development finance, including the national budget; domestic capital markets; remittances; other diasporean capital; foreign direct investment;
May 13, 2014