How can we ensure that the actions we know are required to strengthen resilience are actually taken? This report addresses this question by setting out a vision of a resilient future in Asia and the Pacific and then working backwards to identify potential pathways to its achievement. It highlights the importance of coordinated action, and the links between progress across ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Taxation and Livelihoods: A Review of the Evidence from Fragile and Conflict-Affected Rural Areas
This literature review notes that the evidence base on tax and livelihoods in low-income rural areas – particularly those affected by fragility and conflict – is extremely thin. However, the evidence it reviews suggests that, in many developing country contexts, a variety of forms of taxation take place at once. These involve multiple actors, operate at formal and informal ...» more
Youth Unemployment and Political Instability in Selected Developing Countries
This paper finds that youth unemployment is significantly associated with an increase of the risk of political instability. It uses fixed-effects regression with instrumental variables on a sample of 24 developing countries over the period 1980-2010. The authors suggest that exceptionally large youth unemployment rate, associated with socioeconomic inequalities and corruption, ...» more
Securing Communities: the what and the how of community policing
This paper examines the definitions, objectives, models and influencing factors of community policing (COP). It draws on broad academic and policy literatures, and empirical examples. The paper finds little consensus on the definitions, objectives and models of COP, but notes that the form COP takes is connected to histories of state-society relations. Community policing can ...» more
Who’s in Charge Here? A Literature Review of Approaches to Leadership in Humanitarian Operations
This report goes beyond analysis of individual skills and abilities to consider the role of the organisation and of the group in ensuring effective humanitarian leadership. It is the result of a review of documentation from international humanitarian organisations and from other fields, such as civil defence, the military, and emergency medicine. The review identifies three ...» more