This June sees world leaders and civil society convene for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). It will focus on reviewing progress in achieving the goals of the original 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (the 1992 Rio Earth Summit). A main issue at the heart of...

The social pillar?and thus social equity and social development?is critical to understanding what green growth (or making the economic patterns of development more sustainable) needs to do (that has not been done before), who it needs to serve (who has been left out) and why we have failed to do...

Noted economist Partha Dasgupta asserts that ?intergenerational well-being increases over time if and only if a comprehensive measure of wealth per capita increases? (Dasgupta, 2010). Wealth here is not defined in the narrow sense of gross domestic product (GDP) but includes natural capital...

The world is experiencing a historic convergence of increasing demand for natural resources from emerging economies, prices at record levels across various commodity groups, a downward trend in resource supply, serious trends of ecological instability, and the rise of inequality between those...

O recém-lançado Rural Poverty Report 2011 (IFAD, 2010) demonstra que cerca de 1,4 bilhão de pessoas continua a viver em extrema pobreza, lutando para sobreviver com menos de USD 1,25 por dia, e que mais de dois terços vivem nas áreas rurais dos países em desenvolvimento. A variabilidade e...

We live in a time of transformational change, with society, economy, ecology and politics in a state of flux the world over. Of particular focus in this Working Paper are the implications for mineral-dependent economies of living in an increasingly resource-constrained world. Both countries for...

The recently released Rural Poverty Report 2011 (IFAD, 2010) notes that some 1.4 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty, struggling to survive on less than US$1.25 a day and that more than two-thirds reside in rural areas of developing countries. That climate variability and change...

The focus of the development policy discourse now seems firmly fixed on ?inclusiveness?; as both process and outcome. This is clear from the focus of the UN Secretary General?s Agenda for 2011, the discussions at Davos in January 2011 and the focus of the 2011 UNDP Human Development Report on...

O desenvolvimento humano nos Pequenos Estados Insulares em Desenvolvimento (PEID) vem sendo estável e alto, conforme já foi medido. O caribe, em média, tem níveis mais altos de Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH) do que o Pacífico: Barbados ficou classificado em 37o e São Cristóvão e...