Recommendations
Covid-19 economic recovery: fiscal stimulus choices for lower-income countries
9th October 2020 In the initial crisis phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, as countries used lockdowns to suppress the spread of the virus, fiscal support measures were... →
A Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity: overview of cities’ priorities and emerging partnerships
9th October 2020 This working paper outlines sectoral and policy priorities and maps emerging and existing partnerships and collaboration between cities... →
Fighting inequality in the time of COVID-19: The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2020
8th October 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has swept across a world unprepared to fight it, because countries had failed to choose policies to fight inequality. Only... →
New DAC Rules on Debt Relief – A Poor Measure of Donor Effort
8th October 2020 The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) recently produced a long-awaited set of rules for how debt relief on loans should be scored as Official... →
Strengthening Somalia’s health systems: emerging stronger from Covid-19
8th October 2020 Somalia is among the countries least able to cope with Covid-19 due to poverty-related deprivation, longstanding conflict, low levels of access to... →
Living in Chains – Shackling of People with Psychosocial Disabilities Worldwide
7th October 2020 Around the world, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children with mental health conditions have been shackled—chained or locked in confined... →
State of the art on the initiatives and activities relevant to risk assessment and risk management of nanotechnologies in the food and agriculture sectors: FAO/WHO technical paper
7th October 2020 An international expert meeting on the potential food safety implications of the application of nanotechnologies in the food and agriculture... →
Cyber Information Sharing: Building Collective Security
7th October 2020 Cybersecurity is one of the most systemically important issues facing the world today. Cyber information sharing is critical to helping better... →
An Analysis of Clinical Knowledge, Absenteeism, and Availability of Resources for Maternal and Child Health: A Cross-Sectional Quality of Care Study in 10 African Countries
7th October 2020 Objective: Assess the quality of health care across African countries based on health providers’ clinical knowledge, their clinic attendance, and... →
Arrested Development: International Monetary Fund lending and austerity post Covid-19
7th October 2020 A review of International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff reports for 80 countries, conducted by Eurodad, illustrates a dismal decade ahead for... →
