This book presents a comparative analysis of the policy responses of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean to the challenges that greater external financial openness and price and exchange-rate flexibility pose to economic stability.
Las poblaciones afrodescendientes sufren altos niveles de desigualdad y privación exacerbadas durante la pandemia de COVID-19. En esta publicación se busca recoger el sentir de las personas afrodescendientes y registrar algunos de sus aportes y estrategias para hacer frente a la crisis sociosanitaria y económica.
This paper studies the economic performance of Latin American Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) during the pandemic using disaggregated and high-frequency administrative banking deposits and income data from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru.
This study brings together evidence from across the globe on how the pandemic has impacted women’s unpaid care work, as well as exploring measures implemented by governments and the degree to which these mainstream a gender perspective.
This paper tackles both the framing and effectiveness of transnational initiatives affecting forest lands and peoples in the Global South, and the quality of relationships between institutions in the Global North and the Global South.
This survey examines the economic performance of economies of the Caribbean in 2021 and the first few months of 2022.
There is a need for a new international institution that would be a repository for global knowledge on climate change, and would advise governments on climate policies, develop green projects across the Global South, mobilize financing for those projects, and support project implementation.
Multinational profit shifting by mis-pricing of intra-firm trade is a major concern for less developed countries (LDCs). This paper offers a first empirical assessment, drawing on data for more than 120 low and middle income countries for a 30-year-period.
This article focuses on whether and how refugees’ ICT use maps onto the policy concept of refugee self-reliance, focusing on the economic, educational, administrative, health, and security/protection domains of self-reliance in informal urban settings.
Integrated Water Resource Management relies intensive coordination, vertically across different levels of government and horizontally across policy sectors, as many decisions affecting water resources are taken outside the water sector (e.g., in agriculture, industry).
This study sets out to examine state-society relations in Iraq through the conceptual lens of the social contract and also provides a starting point for deriving potential areas of activity for external actors, such as German development cooperation and technical cooperation.
The European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+) is a core element of EU development cooperation and reflects the EU’s strong commitment to deploying blended finance and guarantees as development financing tools. This paper examines the EU’s intentions concerning how the EFSD+ will be integrated into geographic programmes, focusing on the least developed countries in Africa.
Europe should prioritize the prerequisites for lasting peace in Ethiopia, rather than its own geopolitical concerns.
The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted infrastructure investment flows and, at the same time, highlighted the need for parallel action on social infrastructure. The reduction in infrastructure investment due to the pandemic has affected progress in reducing the annual financing gap for infrastructure in Africa.
For Africa, like the rest of the world, it is critical to adopt a framework with targets that will not only curb the loss of biodiversity but will enhance opportunities to improve the lives of many Africans especially depending on biodiversity for their survival, bearing in mind the biodiversity priorities identified by and for Africans.
In the spirit of learning, and in keeping with its commitment to gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescent girls, UNFPA supported this synthesis of lessons learned over the 15 years of implementing Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents programme, for the benefit of the wider development community.
Will the fast expansion of cash-based programming in poor countries increase international migration? Theoretically, cash transfers may deter migration by increasing its opportunity cost or favor migration by relaxing liquidity, credit, and risk constraints. This paper evaluates the impact of a cash-for-work program on migration.
This paper summarises the key findings and recommendations of a recent evaluation of the EU’s support to rule of law and anticorruption in partner countries between 2010 and 2021, which analysed what has and hasn’t worked and how the EU can improve its policies.
Africa’s progress is currently being threatened by geopolitical, demographic, and economic upheaval and crises. At the same time, African countries are key partners in addressing global challenges. The way it develops will leave its stamp on the 21st century and thus also determine the future of Germany and Europe.
This report presents case studies that highlight how ADB's teams are working together to design innovative urban projects across the Asia and Pacific region that leverage its value-added services and support sustainable economic growth.
