'Without sustaining the environment human beings will not survive. Reflecting this concern, UNESCO has made ethics of science and technology one of its five priority areas. This volume offers perspectives from persons in a range of countries across Asia and the Pacific on environmental ethics, capturing some of the diversity of views and challenges that UNESCO needs to address as it turns increased attention to environmental ethics.'
Source: UNESCO
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'The Global Corruption Report 2008 examines the link between corruption and the water sector in a comprehensive manner. It documents a wide range of corruption risks in different areas of the sector, from water resources management and water for sanitation to irrigation and hydropower.'
Source: Transparency International
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'Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World' considers how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events. It offers a range of possibilities and potential discontinuities, as a way of opening our minds to developments we might otherwise miss.
Some preliminary assessments are:
* The whole international system—as constructed following WWII—will be revolutionized. Not only will new players—Brazil, Russia, India and China— have a seat at the interna more...
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Examining the relationship between institution building and economic performance in three successful African economies. By Kiiza, J.
Produced by: World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) , 2008
"The last few decades have witnessed spirited debate over the role of institutions in fostering or frustrating economic development. The debate appeared to be polarized between the orthodox New Institutional Economists and a variety of heterodox institutional analysts. The former more...
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The Growth Blog is a forum intended for policy makers, academics, students, and other interested citizens to engage current practitioners on policies and issues critical to development. This platform was inspired by the series of meetings that the Commission on Growth and Development held around the world during the development of its report.
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'In a bold effort to privatize Rio de Janeiro's urban transport sector, the state government showed that political decisiveness, transparency, and ingenuity in developing incentives are crucial to make loss-making operations attractive to the private sector. It also learned that not having a credible staff redundancy program might seriously undermine the benefits expected from concessions.'
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'E-government policies when designed along the line of New Public Management (NPM) ideology are aimed at reforming the organisation of the public administration, and reducing the role of bureaucratic institutions in favour of market-like structure of coordination and governance. Holding bureaucracy as a fundamental guarantor of equal and impartial action by public administration, this paper explores how traditional approaches to e-government neglect this important dimension of bureaucracy.'
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