Articles

• Business Regulation and Non-State Actors : Whose Standards ? Whose Development ?

  25 juillet 2014
  This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account.

• Wellbeing and Social Policy in Developing Countries

  1er juillet 2014
  Wellbeing is a key term that has captured the imagination of those interested in extending the boundaries of social policy in the twenty first century. This has taken three major forms: new measures of progress through national and international statistics; wellbeing assessment as the means to (...)

• Land Reform and Social Policy with a Focus on Women’s Rights

  1er juillet 2014
  Contemporary social policy seeks to ensure the rights of citizens to certain basic minimum entitlements. It goes beyond social protection of the ‘most vulnerable’ to seek transformation in social relations more broadly. Land reform has historically had a similar objective – to address social (...)

• Inequalities and the Post-2015 Development Agenda (Beyond 2015 Brief No. 2)

  1er avril 2014
  Income inequalities between and within countries have worsened in recent decades. Gender inequalities are narrowing at a snail’s pace. Citizenship and location continue to determine life chances, despite the increasing integration of economies. Policy instruments to promote equality of outcome (...)

• Social and Solidarity Economy : A New Path to Sustainable Development (Beyond 2015 Brief No. 5)

  20 mars 2014
  Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is an approach to development that addresses the structural causes of poverty and unsustainable development associated with market-centred growth strategies and skewed power relations. It encompasses a broad and diverse range of organizations and enterprises (...)

• Extractive Industries, Revenue Allocation and Local Politics

  7 mars 2014
  This paper looks at the existing criteria and reform modalities adopted to allocate and use EI revenues, and examines the political bargains that enabled such distribution. The paper focuses on four specific questions: a) How do central governments share (or distribute) the revenues from (...)

• Social Drivers of Sustainable Development (Beyond 2015 Brief No. 4)

  7 février 2014
  Persistent poverty, growing inequalities, shrinking environmental limits and market volatility threaten the social and economic gains made since the turn of the millennium. A new development agenda will need to look behind the symptoms to tackle the structural causes or drivers of poverty, (...)

• Combating Poverty and Inequality (Beyond 2015 Brief No. 1)

  7 février 2014
  A set of social development goals agreed by world leaders at the Millennium Summit placed poverty reduction at the heart of the international development agenda. Ongoing crises, and the social unrest they generate, have now forced inequality into the centre of attention of national and global (...)