Article about both the opportunities and risks for microcredit in responding to disaster events.
Presents data on how countries are closing in on the MDG targets. It unpacks the targets and indicators to map out how the development process is playing out across countries and continents.
Section from the summary report of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition which alaysizes some of the implcations of the reoritentation of humanitarian assistance more toward community needs and priorities. (The section starts on p. 32 in case the link doesn't open directly there.)
Report to provide a useful contextual background and an overarching set of questions contextualised for the Haiti response that might inform the development of a shared evaluation framework for the earthquake response in Haiti.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a network of 46 affiliated professors around the world who are united by their use of Randomized Evaluations (REs) to answer questions critical to poverty alleviation. J-PAL's mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence. J-PAL works to achieve this by:
Summary of hazard profiles and ongoing disaster risk management programs in 20 high-risk countries around the world.
Report showing progress made toward the MDGs.
Paper exploring the impacts of climate change and the costs for adaptation that will have to be absorbed by both households and the public sector. The paper makes some interesting points about the potential for increased education and empowerment for women and girls to drive reductions in the vulnerability of affected communities.
A variety of research papers developed to inform the Assessment on the Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction currently being undertaken by teh World Bank Golobal Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and other partners.
