Risk and Resilience

Over the last two years, the concept of “resilience” has achieved significant attention on the international stage due to a growing recognition that different types of risks – violence and conflict, climate change, disasters, global shocks, and other risk factors such as urbanisation and ageing populations – are inter-connected.

Growth is not enough

Brazil’s labour leaders have long argued against pursuing economic growth for its own sake. What matters most, they believe, is not the size of the economic pie but how it’s carved up. In recent years, calls for social justice have increasingly informed policy in Brazil, bringing about a veritable “revolution” in the economy.

Asia’s Challenges

The forces driving Asia’s rapid growth–new technology, globalisation, and market-oriented reform–are also fuelling rising inequality. Some income divergence is inevitable in times of fast economic development, but that shouldn’t make for complacency, especially in the face of rising inequality in people’s opportunities to develop their human capital and income-earning capacity.

Innovative responses to fragility: The promise of modern technology

A global, political push for poverty eradication through the post-2015 framework is likely to benefit from parallel bottom-up social innovation and mobilization. Modern technology can be a real game changer in this regard.

Solving the food crisis

Eliminating hunger and malnutrition, and achieving wider global food security are among the most intractable problems humanity faces. While many once poor countries are now developing rapidly, the world as a whole is unlikely to meet the first Millennium Development Goal target of halving, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the world’s population who suffer from hunger.

Trusting in crowds

“Crowdsourcing” pools the strength of the many to perform complex tasks–everything from funding a film to sequencing DNA. At its heart is trust–not a blanket belief in great institutions, but rather the confidence between individuals that each will do the right thing. Its power is being increasingly felt today, even in the world of international development.

Aid in Support of Gender Equality in Fragile and Conflict-affected States - Chapter 4

The present study is a contribution to mark the 10th anniversary of the adoption of UNSCR 1325 (in 2010), and provides an overview of DAC members' funding targeted to gender equality in fragile and conflict-affected states.

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• Aid in Support of Women's Economic Empowerment - Chapter 2
• Aid in Support of Women's Economic Empowerment - Chapter 2

Detailed final 2011 aid figures released by OECD/DAC

The detailed final aid figures for 2011 are now available on the OECD Aid Statistics web site. The new data add significant detail to preliminary Official Development Assistance (ODA) statistics that were released in April 2011. The final figures show that in 2011, net ODA was USD 134 billion, representing 0.31% of donors’ combined gross national income.

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• Aid statistics and databases: All about numbers - who spends what, where?
• Data cycle of Aid Statistics
• Database updates for DAC and CRS online

Current work

Current work programme of the DAC Network on Development Evaluation

Common Standard: What is the common standard for aid information? - Arabic

Stakeholders in Busan resolved to make information on development resources better available and publicly accessible. They set out to implement a common, open standard for electronic publication of timely, comprehensive and forward-looking information by end-2015. By December 2012 they aim to agree on this standard and publish their respective schedules to implement it.

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