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Occasional Papers
Evolution of Thinking and Research on Human and Personal Security 1994-2013
By:
Gasper, Des; Gómez, Oscar A.
2014
Human security analysis considers the intersection of deprivation and vulnerability, and is an essential part, or partner, of human development thinking, giving special attention to risks and forces of disruption and destruction. This paper highlights...Read more
Improving Global Collective Action in a Connected World
By:
Hale, Thomas
2014
Rising interdependence creates a need for greater global cooperation to manage basic policy problems, like providing economic stability and development, maintaining security and ensuring environmental sustainability. But the intergovernmental...Read more
Violence against Women as ‘Relational’ Vulnerability: Engendering the Sustainable Human Development Agenda
By:
Kabeer, Naila
2014
Violence against women can be conceptualized as a ‘relational vulnerability’, reflecting women’s subordinate status within hierarchical gender relations and the dependencies associated with it. While such violence can take many different forms, this...Read more
Inaugural Mahbub ul Haq-Amartya Sen Lecture, UNIGE
Advancing, Sustaining Human Progress: From Concepts to Policies
By:
Malik, Khalid
2014
Mahbub was that rare combination of thinker-doer. A former Minister of Finance in his home country Pakistan, he was acutely aware that theoretical debates were not enough, and that we have to think about policies that make a difference in the lives of...Read more
Life Cycle Transitions and Vulnerabilities in Old Age: A Review
By:
Zaidi, Asghar
2014
This paper reviews the concepts of vulnerability and resilience, and their applications for ageing and older people through literature in this area. Concurrently, it reviews the life course framework and the capability approach, and their relevance to...Read more
Fostering Sustainable Human Development
Managing the Macro-risks of Vulnerability
By:
Kaul, Inge
2014
The purpose of this paper is to trace and characterize the factors that contribute to today’s multiplying signs and incidences of vulnerability, and, based on this analysis, to suggest possible corrective policy steps. The findings show that the risks of...Read more
Addressing and Mitigating Vulnerability Across the Life Cycle
The Case for Investing in Early Childhood
By:
Young, Mary
2014
Our current understanding of the neurobiology of early childhood is that the development of the brain’s architecture and function in early life affects health, learning and behaviour until we die. This means that what is done or not done in early...Read more
The Social Value of Employment and the Redistributive Imperative for Development
By:
Fischer, Andrew M.
2014
Evaluating the inherently relative and subjective social value of employment needs to be placed within a broader inquiry about the conditions under which a sufficient and sustained perception of social value might be cultivated within particular...Read more
Human Progress and the Rising South
By:
Malik, Khalid (ed); Kugler, Maurice (ed)
2013
Human Progress and the Rising South The twenty-first century is witnessing a profound shift in global dynamics of unprecedented speed and scale, driven by the fast-rising powers of the developing world. What are these countries doing right? What are...Read more
Human Progress and the Rising South
By:
Malik, Khalid (ed); Kugler, Maurice (ed)
2013
Human Progress and the Rising South The twenty-first century is witnessing a profound shift in global dynamics of unprecedented speed and scale, driven by the fast-rising powers of the developing world. What are these countries doing right? What are...Read more
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