The global education crisis is also a global refugee education crisis, as far too many refugee students must contend with barriers to access, low quality, and limited relevance in their learning opportunities. Refugee education continues to be under-supported in policy dialogue and funding.
This report examines how digital credentials and learning and employment records are shaping the ways people access education and career opportunities around the world. Although the new technologies may expand opportunities for many learners and workers, they also risk leaving many communities and individuals behind.
As powerful democratic states around the world face increasing strain from an interconnected set of domestic challenges — political, economic, and cultural — as well as uncertainty about American strategy and the implications of emerging technologies, Asia represents a critical frontier for democracy.
This paper offers an integrated, structured, empirical narrative of how and why agri-food value chain revolutions occur in developing countries, the impacts of those changes, and the abundant economic research opportunities these structural changes afford.
EU member states can learn from Ukraine’s experiences, but this should be a two-way street – with European countries continuing to supply weapons and provide training to Ukraine, and gaining real-world wartime insights in return.
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) investment protocol can be leveraged to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ethiopia. Synchronising bilateral and multilateral agreements with domestic economic policies, as well as developing a negotiation position on the National Special Economic Zone Policy to attract FDI, will help Ethiopia prepare ahead of time.
Moldova occupies a significant geostrategic position with regard to the war in Ukraine, as a key ally and neighbour to that country’s immediate west. The country remains highly vulnerable to Russian pressure but financial assistance in the short term and support for reform in the long term will help it make progress, including towards eventual EU membership.
Instead of fixating on infrastructure, African countries should look to the experience of Latin American countries with similar resource endowments: a greater relative abundance of land than low-cost labor.
The Africa Visa Openness Index has tracked the evolution of visa regimes on the African continent from before the pandemic to today. As the 2022 report shows, African countries are dismantling many of the measures imposed during the pandemic. Indeed, on the whole, the continent has returned to a level of visa openness last seen just before the pandemic began.
External public debt risks in developing countries are on the rise and have been for several years. Higher debt stocks, debt service and assessed risks by international institutions have led to intensified calls to strengthen debt restructuring initiatives. This paper provides a global snapshot of the debt situation in developing countries.
Both popular perspectives and theoretical characterizations of Rwanda’s remarkable trajectory following the genocide remain polarized more than a generation after the violence. The country has been hailed as a developmental state and denounced as an authoritarian ‘ethnocracy’. This article introduces the concept of securocratic state-building in response to this polarization.
The report is the assessment of the 20 countries at greatest risk of new humanitarian emergency each year. These 20 countries are home to just 13% of the global population and account for a mere 1.6% of global GDP. Yet they represent 90% of people in humanitarian need, 81% of people globally who are forcibly displaced, 80% of people that are acutely food insecure, and 89% of conflict-related civilian deaths.
L’utilisation croissante des réseaux sociaux au Tchad pourrait faciliter la transition politique, mais elle risque également d’attiser la violence. Avec le soutien des bailleurs, les autorités, la société civile, les plateformes en ligne et les influenceuses et influenceurs devraient s’assurer que les réseaux sociaux restent un espace de débat démocratique plutôt qu’un accélérateur de conflits.
Connecting the free movement of goods and services and the free movement of persons is essential to harness the benefits of intra-African trade. The present brief looks at the role of the African Union’s free movement protocol – which has received much less attention than the AfCFTA agreement – in facilitating labour mobility.
Despite growing interest among development actors to integrate links between the environment, climate, peace and security into their policies and activities, practical approaches to addressing environment-related security risks are lagging behind awareness at policy level. This policy brief provides insights into how donors can incentivize implementing organizations to further develop and apply these practical approaches.
The report provides a typology on the sources of illicit small arms and light weapons (SALW) in the states and regions under embargo and discusses the challenges of enforcing arms embargoes and possible policy solutions to address the various sources of illicit SALW in order to inform and support efforts to combat the proliferation of illicit arms.
According to this report, State media viewers are the largest segment of the Belarusian audience (33%), although in terms of credibility these sources are the most controversial. About a quarter of the audience (24%) prefer non-state media and almost the same number (25%) use both types of sources.
Collectively a major economic powerhouse, and the world’s largest provider of official development assistance (ODA), the European Union is engaged in a process of combining its various tools and objectives towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This report provides a pulse on intersectional vulnerabilities experienced by Afghans during a given period. The analysis focuses on events that emerged as important based on what is being discussed by Afghans and humanitarian responders.
The Chinese government is revolutionizing digital surveillance at home. Are digital technology transfers from Huawei, China’s leading information technology company, enabling recipient governments to expand their digital surveillance operations and engage in more targeted repression against dissidents? To answer this question, this paper focus on the African continent, which has received nearly half of all global Huawei technology transfers.
