A
new ODI event series in 2009 will bring together political leaders and high-level policy analysts to kick-start a vital year for development and climate change policy.
What is the role of business in the development landscape?
A series of nine public events, held from January to October 2009, explores different approaches.
Developing countries are starting to feel the effects of the global financial crisis.
Dirk Willem te Velde's blog argues for better understanding of, and response to, the impact of the crisis.
An
HPG Working Paper argues that aid agencies could improve their impact by building better links between protection and livelihoods.
Feeding research-based evidence into policy and practice has always been difficult.
A new issue of Capacity.org considers the skills and capacities necessary for linking the three.
Marta Foresti's blog to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights argues that signing up is easy enough, but does not change reality.
Children, more than any other socially-excluded group, lack a voice. A new ODI Opinion asks why children's rights are so 'invisible' on the international agenda.
Are developing countries ready for REDD - financial incentives that help them to reduce carbon emissions produced by deforestation and forest degradation?
The Doha summit on financing for development wasn't the political train wreck some had predicted. It even achieved some useful outcomes, argues Liesbet Steer.
