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Global Peace Index 2013
Conflict, Global Index, Civil SocietyThe 2013 Global Peace Index report analyses the state of peace around the world, identifying trends in violence and conflict, as well as the key drivers of peace. The 2013 Global Peace Index (GPI) shows that the world has become less peaceful, with a sharp rise in the number of homicides worldwide: The world has become 5% less peaceful since 2008 Europe is the most peaceful region...
A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development - Post-2015
Governance and MDG, Report, Other UN AgencyThe High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,” a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. The report calls upon the world to rally around a new Global...
Inter-American Journal of Education for Democracy - The Role of Assessment in Educating Democratic Citizens - Vol 3, No 1 (2010)
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Democracy, Academic/Think TankAs the articles for this, the fifth issue of our journal, began to take final form, we realized that we had inadvertently compiled a “thematic section” on issues of evaluation and assessment. The fact that such a grouping of articles came together speaks to the salience of this matter for the field of practice and scholarship known as democratic citizenship education (DCE). Now more than ever, we...
Overview and Synthesis: The Political Economy of Fiscal Transparency, Participation, and Accountability around the World
Article / Working Paper, Economic Governance, Academic/Think TankThis publication brings together evidence from quantitative data and in-depth qualitative case studies. It finds that four main factors affect fiscal transparency, participation, and accountability across countries : 1) processes of political regime change and increasing political competition, 2) fiscal and economic crises, 3) corruption scandals and the media, and 4) external (...
The State of the World's Children 2013
Conflict, Report, Other UN AgencyChildren with disabilities and their communities would both benefit if society focused on what those children can achieve, rather than what they cannot do, according to UNICEF’s annual State of the World’s Children’s report. The report lays out how societies can include children with disabilities – starting with registering their births and allowing them access to vital health and social services...
Mapping the corruption assessment landscape
Article / Working Paper, Corruption, Global IntegrityThis paper reports on the results of a two-year stocktaking exercise to map the field of corruption assessments, undertaken as part of Transparency International’s GATEway project. Based on an analysis of more than 500 diagnostic tools, it presents some of the key trends and themes in corruption assessment work, and identifies important gaps which may need to be filled. Among other things, the...
Paper | Fuzzy sets theory and the Millennium Development Goals progress measurement in Cameroon - Munich Personal RePEc Archive
Article / Working Paper, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankThis paper uses the fuzzy set theory recently suggested by Cerioli and Zani (1990) and Dagum and Costa (2004) to derive a methodology to construct a Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) measurement index. Using the formulation of the index, it also derives the contribution of different attributes to the level of the progress being accomplished in achieving the MDGs. An empirical illustration,...
Industries Extractives | Africa Progress Report 2013 (en français)
Economic Governance, Governance and Environment, Report, Academic/Think TankExiste aussi en Haute résolution (4 Mo) et en anglais (Haute et basse résolution). . POur les résumé et les communiqué de presse (anglais, français, allemand et portugais) : http://africaprogresspanel.org/fr/publications1/apr2013francais/documents-telecharger/
Extractive Industries | Africa Progress Report 2013 (English)
Economic Governance, Governance and Environment, Report, Academic/Think TankExists also in High-Res (4,5Mb) and in French (High-Res & Low Res). For the summaries and press releases : http://www.africaprogresspanel.org/en/publications/africa-progress-report-2013/apr-documents/
Parliamentary Oversight and Social Accountability
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Parliament, Civil SocietyParliamentary oversight is one of the cornerstones of democracy. John Stuart Mill asserted that the most appropriate tasks of a representative body are to: oversee and clarify the government actions, compel the executive to provide explanations for its activities and jurisdiction for its deeds (Mill 1890). A comparative study by Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU 2007) defined Parliamentary...