Drawing on case histories of emergency relief efforts that have successfully promoted development, Anderson and Woodrow offer guidelines for designing programs to counter the effects of both natural and human-caused disasters. They also present an analytical framework for assessing the...

This paper analyzes five Productive Development Policies (PDPs) implemented in Costa Rica, finding that they are not optimally addressing market failures. Moreover, government failures rather than market failures represent the main justification for PDPs. Even in the presence of market failures,...

This report compares and contrasts how disaster risk management is being conceptualised in relation to emerging climate change adaptation efforts and how these two agendas are influenced by different governance systems, accountabilities and social contracts in Zambia, Uganda, Viet Nam and Nepal....