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emphasis is on the role of international organizations in supporting social policy development in Indonesia. These agencies … include the World Bank, ILO, WHO, UNDP, UNICEF and FAO. It engages with the following key questions: which external policy … perspective, and focus on social policy prescriptions of global policy actors. This paper discusses several international …
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developing countries (Barrientos 2011). International organizations such as the United Nations and development banks have adopted … strategies and policies on social protection.1 To this end, the International Labour Organization's (ILO) role in promoting …
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Energy poverty alleviation has become an important political issue in the most recent years. Several initiatives and policies have been proposed to deal with poor access to modern sources of energy in many developing countries. Given the large number of people lacking basic energy services, an...
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Using a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the relationship between the two major forms of terrorism and foreign direct investment (FDI). We then analyze how these relationships are affected by foreign aid flows. The analysis focuses on 78 developing countries for 1984- 2008. Our...
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environmental issues on a global scale, this is a critical moment for the international development agenda. Almost 15 years after … the Millennium Declaration, a new phase for international development is about to begin and, with it, comes the … practitioners working on international development in a post-2015 international development framework. The exercise was organized …
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-permanent) membership on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the subnational distribution of World Bank aid. Specifically, we … analyze whether World Bank projects are targeted to regions in which the head of state was born, or to regions dominated by … regions) receive significantly more World Bank projects and loan commitments during UNSC membership years compared to other …
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An important segment of labour regulations concerns the protection aspects of social security. These regulations provide safety nets or fall back mechanisms to enable workers to cope with crises that affect households from time to time, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This...
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standards that affect producers and consumers across the world. The second part of the paper investigates empirically the …
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