The uprisings in the Middle East suggest that people want the whole package. Not just their civil and political rights. Economic and social opportunities too.
Macroeconomic shocks traditionally affect women differently than men. But how do these gender-differentiated impacts unfold?
There is now a new thinking on how to reform the global financial system and how to reduce the vulnerability of the system to adverse changes in macroeconomic and market conditions.
With 1,500 dead, 20 million people displaced, and millions of hectares of agricultural land underwater, Pakistan would seem to have a solid claim on international support. So why is Pakistan having such trouble attracting support?
As governments in Afghanistan and other fragile states pursue the tortuous business of reform, they cannot rely on promises of better security, improved livelihoods and more social justice to impose their own logic on people's minds.
Yemen is in trouble. A worrying mix of security-related and economic crises has the potential to destabilize the country.
Land restitution is the ultimate goal in the protection of land that has been lost due to displacement.
