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Briefing paper

Opening the Vaults: The use of tax havens by Europe’s biggest banks

27/03/2017

8 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world of tax havens is a murky place. In Europe, only one sector is required to publicly report its profits and tax on a country-by-country basis – the banking sector, as a result of regulation following the financial crisis. Since 2015 all banks based in the European Union have been obliged to report on […]

Journal article

Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

01/07/2002

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

Keywords

Overview

This paper argues that the ability of women to adapt to climate change pressures will be enhanced by using the ‘capabilities approach’ to direct development efforts. By using this approach, women will improve their well-being, and act more readily as agents of change within their communities. This argument is supported by previous research on gender […]

Briefing paper

Salt, Sugar, and Malaria Pills: How the Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria endangers public health

24/10/2012

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria has shown no evidence that it has saved the lives of the most vulnerable or delayed drug resistance. Rather, this global subsidy has incentivised medicine sales without diagnosis and shown no evidence that it has served poor people. It poses a risk to public health and could skew investment away from […]

Journal article

Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

Briefing paper

Business Among Friends: Why corporate tax dodgers are not yet losing sleep over global tax reform

02/05/2014

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Fair tax regimes are vital to finance well-functioning states and to enable governments to uphold citizens’ rights to basic services, such as healthcare and education. Tax dodging by big corporations deprives governments of billions of dollars and drives rapidly increasing inequality. Recent G20 and OECD moves to clamp down on corporate tax dodging are a […]

Journal article

Sudanese refugees in Koboko

01/02/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sudanese refugees in Koboko

Keywords

Overview

When refugees fled from Sudan to Uganda, some aid agencies in Sudan went with them. Their priorities were to supply water and promote hygiene, in addition to providing health care and education begun previously. The author recounts her experience of working alongside these agencies, women refugees, Sudanese technical experts, and community representatives. She saw how […]

Briefing note

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world’s poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system

13/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world’s poor must not pay the price for the collapse of financial markets. Without immediate action, millions will suffer. Poor women and children will pay for the financial folly, failed ideology and crude self-interest that led to this crisis. Much of the burden will be borne by those least able to cope, whether it […]

Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender in homestead food production

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

Campaign report

Growing a Better Future in Viet Nam: Expanding Rights, Voices and Choices for Small-scale Farmers

16/10/2012

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Viet Nam has an enviable record of reducing hunger and poverty: over the past 20 years poverty levels have been reduced by more than half. Many people speak of an era of new opportunities and prosperity, yet the struggle to overcome poverty, and end hunger and gender injustice is not won. With one in five […]

Briefing paper

Planting Now: Agricultural challenges and opportunities for Haiti’s reconstruction

05/10/2010

8 documents

Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Even before the devastating January 2010 earthquake, Haiti was one of the poorest and most food-insecure countries on earth. A majority of Haitians live in rural areas and depend on agricultural livelihoods, but neither the government nor the international community has paid sufficient attention to agriculture, leaving the countryside increasingly marginalized. Too often, decision-making forums […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Opening the Vaults: The use of tax havens by Europe’s biggest banks

27/03/2017

8 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world of tax havens is a murky place. In Europe, only one sector is required to publicly report its profits and tax on a country-by-country basis – the banking sector, as a result of regulation following the financial crisis. Since 2015 all banks based in the European Union have been obliged to report on […]

Journal article

Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

01/07/2002

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

Keywords

Overview

This paper argues that the ability of women to adapt to climate change pressures will be enhanced by using the ‘capabilities approach’ to direct development efforts. By using this approach, women will improve their well-being, and act more readily as agents of change within their communities. This argument is supported by previous research on gender […]

Briefing paper

Salt, Sugar, and Malaria Pills: How the Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria endangers public health

24/10/2012

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria has shown no evidence that it has saved the lives of the most vulnerable or delayed drug resistance. Rather, this global subsidy has incentivised medicine sales without diagnosis and shown no evidence that it has served poor people. It poses a risk to public health and could skew investment away from […]

Journal article

Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

Briefing paper

Business Among Friends: Why corporate tax dodgers are not yet losing sleep over global tax reform

02/05/2014

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Fair tax regimes are vital to finance well-functioning states and to enable governments to uphold citizens’ rights to basic services, such as healthcare and education. Tax dodging by big corporations deprives governments of billions of dollars and drives rapidly increasing inequality. Recent G20 and OECD moves to clamp down on corporate tax dodging are a […]

Journal article

Sudanese refugees in Koboko

01/02/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sudanese refugees in Koboko

Keywords

Overview

When refugees fled from Sudan to Uganda, some aid agencies in Sudan went with them. Their priorities were to supply water and promote hygiene, in addition to providing health care and education begun previously. The author recounts her experience of working alongside these agencies, women refugees, Sudanese technical experts, and community representatives. She saw how […]

Briefing note

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world’s poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system

13/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world’s poor must not pay the price for the collapse of financial markets. Without immediate action, millions will suffer. Poor women and children will pay for the financial folly, failed ideology and crude self-interest that led to this crisis. Much of the burden will be borne by those least able to cope, whether it […]

Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender in homestead food production

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

Campaign report

Growing a Better Future in Viet Nam: Expanding Rights, Voices and Choices for Small-scale Farmers

16/10/2012

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Viet Nam has an enviable record of reducing hunger and poverty: over the past 20 years poverty levels have been reduced by more than half. Many people speak of an era of new opportunities and prosperity, yet the struggle to overcome poverty, and end hunger and gender injustice is not won. With one in five […]

Briefing paper

Planting Now: Agricultural challenges and opportunities for Haiti’s reconstruction

05/10/2010

8 documents

Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Even before the devastating January 2010 earthquake, Haiti was one of the poorest and most food-insecure countries on earth. A majority of Haitians live in rural areas and depend on agricultural livelihoods, but neither the government nor the international community has paid sufficient attention to agriculture, leaving the countryside increasingly marginalized. Too often, decision-making forums […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Briefing paper

Opening the Vaults: The use of tax havens by Europe’s biggest banks

27/03/2017

8 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world of tax havens is a murky place. In Europe, only one sector is required to publicly report its profits and tax on a country-by-country basis – the banking sector, as a result of regulation following the financial crisis. Since 2015 all banks based in the European Union have been obliged to report on […]

Journal article

Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

01/07/2002

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach

Keywords

Overview

This paper argues that the ability of women to adapt to climate change pressures will be enhanced by using the ‘capabilities approach’ to direct development efforts. By using this approach, women will improve their well-being, and act more readily as agents of change within their communities. This argument is supported by previous research on gender […]

Briefing paper

Salt, Sugar, and Malaria Pills: How the Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria endangers public health

24/10/2012

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The Affordable Medicine Facility-malaria has shown no evidence that it has saved the lives of the most vulnerable or delayed drug resistance. Rather, this global subsidy has incentivised medicine sales without diagnosis and shown no evidence that it has served poor people. It poses a risk to public health and could skew investment away from […]

Journal article

Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

Briefing paper

Business Among Friends: Why corporate tax dodgers are not yet losing sleep over global tax reform

02/05/2014

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Fair tax regimes are vital to finance well-functioning states and to enable governments to uphold citizens’ rights to basic services, such as healthcare and education. Tax dodging by big corporations deprives governments of billions of dollars and drives rapidly increasing inequality. Recent G20 and OECD moves to clamp down on corporate tax dodging are a […]

Journal article

Sudanese refugees in Koboko

01/02/1994

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Sudanese refugees in Koboko

Keywords

Overview

When refugees fled from Sudan to Uganda, some aid agencies in Sudan went with them. Their priorities were to supply water and promote hygiene, in addition to providing health care and education begun previously. The author recounts her experience of working alongside these agencies, women refugees, Sudanese technical experts, and community representatives. She saw how […]

Briefing note

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world’s poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system

13/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

The world’s poor must not pay the price for the collapse of financial markets. Without immediate action, millions will suffer. Poor women and children will pay for the financial folly, failed ideology and crude self-interest that led to this crisis. Much of the burden will be borne by those least able to cope, whether it […]

Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Transforming gender in homestead food production

Keywords

Overview

In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

Campaign report

Growing a Better Future in Viet Nam: Expanding Rights, Voices and Choices for Small-scale Farmers

16/10/2012

1 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Viet Nam has an enviable record of reducing hunger and poverty: over the past 20 years poverty levels have been reduced by more than half. Many people speak of an era of new opportunities and prosperity, yet the struggle to overcome poverty, and end hunger and gender injustice is not won. With one in five […]

Briefing paper

Planting Now: Agricultural challenges and opportunities for Haiti’s reconstruction

05/10/2010

8 documents

Languages: English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Even before the devastating January 2010 earthquake, Haiti was one of the poorest and most food-insecure countries on earth. A majority of Haitians live in rural areas and depend on agricultural livelihoods, but neither the government nor the international community has paid sufficient attention to agriculture, leaving the countryside increasingly marginalized. Too often, decision-making forums […]