Showing 1 - 10 of 514
borderland regions, considering that protracted armed conflict, chronic poverty, humanitarian emergencies, state failure, and … drugs-related and development goals in the conflict-affected Myanmar-China borderlands. The first of these interventions is … to combine efforts to reduce opium cultivation with a wider set of rural development strategies aimed at tackling poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473131
With a new development framework under way and an increasingly urgent need to address political, socioeconomic and 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485119
), submitted under the Paris Agreement, will have on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of poverty eradication (SDG1) and … future trends of poverty prevalence and inequality across countries in a reference scenario and under a climate mitigation … contributions, stated in the NDCs, is projected to slow down the effort to reduce poverty by 2030 (+2% of the population below the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737566
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000978854
We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670379
(43rd) and Russia (45th) precede China (80th) and India (102nd), the latter two especially penalized because of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391794
This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687350
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286683
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886849
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty and protect the environment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784224