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Inequality watch

Tuesday, May 7 2013 / Eldis

This report is a contribution to the development policy debate. It shows that it is a too narrow approach to limit the targets of development policy to growth or to

Generosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face

Tuesday, May 7 2013 / Eldis

Field experiments combining dictator games with stated preference questions are used to elicit within subject and between subject sharing behavior with known family members and anonymous villager. A simple theoretical

Climate change and transport sector in Colombia: interview with Michael Savonis (Part II)

Friday, May 3 2013 / CDKN Latin America

Last week, CDKN published the first part of the interview with Michael Sanovis, the Head of the project “Mainstreaming Climate Change into the Colombia Transport Sector”. Michael Sanovis presented ICF,

Alleviating climate change impacts in rural Bangladesh through efficient agricultural interventions

Friday, May 3 2013 / Eldis

Rice is the staple food in Bangladesh and crucial for the food security in the country. The alluvial soil deposits, through an extensive river network across Bangladesh, have contributed to

Nepal to generate electricity from waste

Friday, May 3 2013 / SciDev.Net | Climate Change & Energy

Nepal sees waste-to-energy projects as a way to meet energy demand and also manage waste.

FEATURE: Lighting a billion lives in India

Friday, May 3 2013 / CDKN Asia

One of the challenges facing the world today is to provide sustainable energy to all citizens. The task is massive but solutions often come from small, localized initiatives. The Lighting

Communicating climate compatible development to the Kenyan private sector

Thursday, May 2 2013 / CDKN Africa

Project Code: TAAF-0040b CDKN is assisting the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) in communicating climate compatible development (CCD) to the Kenyan private sector. The aims of this project is to inform the

Comparative analysis of climate change vulnerability assessments: Lessons from Tunisia and Indonesia

Thursday, May 2 2013 / Eldis

Vulnerability assessments (VAs) are central to shaping climate change adaptation decisions, providing a basis for devising measures that will minimise or avoid harm to humans and ecological systems. Yet the

Forests and climate change after Doha: an Asia-Pacific perspective

Thursday, May 2 2013 / Eldis

Since 2010 the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and have brought together regional experts to reflect on the

Growing green: the economic benefits of climate action

Thursday, May 2 2013 / Eldis

The economic impacts of climate change already threaten development gains; unchecked emissions will come at rising economic cost and increasing risk to individuals. This report argues that there is a

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