Filed under: Development 2.0 Peace and security Poverty Social inclusion
Zack Taylor Global leaders are once again meeting this week in Davos, Switzerland to discuss and – one hopes – find solutions to the increasingly volatile economic and political forces shaping our world. In a marked change from past get-togethers, mainstream economists will be talking about something more usually associated with the development community: Rising… Read more »
Filed under: Development 2.0 Human rights
A.H. Monjurul Kabir @mkabir2011 One of the issues I often discuss with staff from ombudsman offices and national human rights institutions in Europe and the CIS is how they are addressing the fast development and application of social media and knowledge management 2.0 tools in their daily work. Is it still too early for them? What about… Read more »
Filed under: Poverty Roma Social inclusion
Andrey Ivanov So far, inclusion efforts have failed to achieve their noble goals. A major reason for this is ‘sticking to a single dimension’ in a complex challenge. This approach is appealing because of its simplicity, but produces irrelevant (and potentially disastrous) results. There are three dominating extremes when it comes to approaching the Roma… Read more »
Filed under: Climate change Development
Ben Slay Should national contributions to climate change be measured as greenhouse gases emitted by the countries in which they are produced? Or should they be “charged against” the countries in which the goods and services that generate these emissions are consumed? This issue was highlighted by a new study (See: Growth in emission transfers… Read more »
Filed under: Governance Human rights Poverty Social inclusion
Monjurul Kabir The principle that all people, public and private institutions, and all states are accountable to laws that are equally enforced and independently adjudicated is fundamental to governance and human rights. However, realities on the ground are less than ideal. Let’s take the example of the recommendations agreed by United Nations member states through… Read more »
Filed under: Development Migration and remittances Poverty
Alisher Juraev Michael Clemens recently said in the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog that “A world without borders makes economic sense.” Mr. Clemens has some interesting ideas about free movement of labour throughout the world, arguing that “a modest relaxation of barriers to human mobility between countries would bring more global economic prosperity than the total… Read more »
Filed under: Poverty Social inclusion
Michaela Lednova Social services such as education, health care, subsidized housing or welfare meals are principally provided by the state to improve the quality of life for children, people with disabilities, the elderly and vulnerable individuals who cannot meet their basic needs. In the last two decades, most countries in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth… Read more »
Filed under: Climate change Development Environment Social inclusion
Gina Lucarelli With a team of experts from the United Nations Development Group, we’re in Bratislava planning how to engage governments in Europe and Central Asia in the run up to the global sustainable development conference next year (a.k.a. Rio+20). Rio will take the debate on environmental sustainability forward by looking at fundamental global questions… Read more »
Filed under: Development Human rights Social inclusion
Monjurul Kabir The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” We must consider it central to our policy and programming work that human rights contribute to addressing the challenges facing persons with disabilities. There is also a powerful reason for us as UNDP for… Read more »
Filed under: Climate change Development Environment
Agi Veres Our current human lifestyle – our production and consumption patterns – is exploiting earth’s natural resources in an unsustainable manner. However, there is a way out of this mess, according to experts at the Roundtable on Climate Change and Development in Slovenia. The carrying capacity (supporting our human lives) of Earth is between… Read more »
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