This report first describes the currency, financial and economic crises in Asia and analyses how the crises evolved. The second part analyses ...

The ongoing international financial crisis has forced experts, economists, politicians, and decision-makers to assess what is happening and ...

Astri Suhrke at CMI led a major evaluation of UNHCR´s response to the Kosovo refugee crisis in 1999. UNHCR had commissioned an international ...

This paper reviews certain aspects of the post-crisis problem, as seen from within the UN. It outlines the wide variety in cases that fall within ...

The project is a background study for the Oslo Consultations on Human Resources for Health in February 2005. Question has been raised whether ...

Lebanon is currently experiencing its worst political crisis since the civil war ended in 1989. Elizabeth Picard is a leading Middle East scholar, and Lebanon specialist.

The slogan “education cannot wait” entails the positive and life-saving role of education during crisis. However, education can ...

This paper discusses the current food security crisis in the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa. It tries to explain the recurrent famines ...

This report deals with Angola’s budget process – in the wide sense – in the period between 2008 and 2010. Three concepts ...

The Syrian revolt has over the past three years escalated into a massive humanitarian crisis with regional implications. The crisis is consistent ...

Rural Angola has gone through decades of hardships with war and economic marginalisation – culminating with the current economic crisis. ...

On 27 December 2007 the fourth general elections since the democratic opening in the early 1990s were held. They were widely considered to be ...

The project involves participation in the World Bank's efforts to build evidence relevant for solving the human resource crisis in the health ...

In this introductory chapter to the anthology, the editors discuss the meaning of associational life in the context of rapid urbanisation in ...

The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the ...

There is a healthcare crisis in India. Health indicators are dismal. 25% of the world’s maternal deaths every year, occur in India. 47% ...

Dr. Carlos Flores is the author of El Estado en Crisis: Crimen Organizado y Politicas (The State in Crisis: Organized Crime and Politics) and several articles about the evolution of drug trafficking in Mexico and the impact on state legitimacy and democracy.

Open lecture with Assistant Professor Ruth Mas(University of Colorado).   This lecture is concerned with the relationship between ...

Ethiopia: Crisis of state, good governance and the reform of the security sector Siegfried Pausewan

Ethiopia: Crisis of state, good governance and the reform of the security sector Siegfried Pausewan