The Fund for Peace, an independent research organization, and FOREIGN POLICY magazine present this fourth annual Failed States Index. Using 12 social, economic, political, and military indicators, the report ranks 177 states in order of their vulnerability to violent internal conflict and societal deterioration. To do so, the authors examined more than 30,000 publicly available sources, collected from May to December 2007, to form the basis of the index’s scores. The 60 most vulnerable states more...
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Summary: "The turbulence the world is experiencing approaching the 21st century is not just because of the end of the Cold War, the end of a Golden Age, or the beginning of the Information Revolution. Fundamentally, it signals the end of the Baconian Age, which began almost 400 years ago when Sir Francis Bacon set out his concepts of progress and development, concepts that have shaped human endeavours ever since.
What does the end of the Baconian Age mean to the future of development cooperat more...
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Bill Easterly and Jessica Cohen of Brookings convened a two day conference in May 2008 with leading development experts exploring what we really know about what works and what doesn’t when fighting global poverty? The conference focused on the ongoing debate over which paths to development really maximize results: a big-picture approach focusing on the role of institutions, macroeconomic policies, growth strategies and other country-level factors; or a more grassroots approach focusing on part more...
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The Commission on Growth and Development brought together twenty-one leading practitioners from government, business and the policymaking arenas, mostly from the developing world. The Commission was chaired by Nobel Laureate Michael Spence and is sometimes called the Spence Commission. Its report issued in 2008 has been described as providing the basis for a new consensus of development economists. The report website provides not only a downloadable version of the report, but information on the more...
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This paper will be useful to those who would like to gain an overview of the issue of growth and poverty for a developing country. Special Paper 08.27 by Prof. Marc Wuyts presents the conceptual framework for REPOA’s research programme on growth and poverty, explaining the underlying rationale and agenda.
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Japanese leadership in 2008 is essential to keep African development high on the international agenda as it is host of both the 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) and the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit. Recognising this important year for Japan, ODI has worked to bring together policy-makers, researchers and civil society to help inform this process. The resulting resources and events can be found at this ODI on... page.
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The Aceh Community Assistance Research Project (ACARP) was a multi-donor supported qualitative social research project, aimed at identifying and better understanding the factors that support and constrain recovery and redevelopment in communities in the Indonesian province of Aceh Nanggroe Darussalam in the wake of the Boxing Day 2004 earthquake and tsunami. Field research was undertaken over a three-month period in 18 tsunami-affected villages in three of the most heavily impacted districts on more...
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