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Climate Change Risks and Supply Chain Responsibility: How should companies respond when extreme weather affects small-scale producers in their supply chain?

28/06/2012

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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What role can companies play in strengthening the capacity of small-scale producers in developing countries to adapt to climate change, and in doing so, make their global value chains more resilient? While some leading companies have made progress in taking greater responsibility for what happens throughout their supply chains, there has been little discussion about […]

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The ABC of the Arms Trade Treaty: Why it’s important – How will it work?

25/06/2012

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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The Arms Trade Treaty is a potential ground-breaking humanitarian treaty that would regulate the international trade in conventional weapons. The Treaty will be negotiated at a United Nations conference in New York between July 2 – 27. There is currently no effective international legislation on the global arms trade. While there are treaties on nuclear, […]

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Creating a Fair Tax System to Benefit Paraguay’s Small-Scale Farmers

24/05/2012

2 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This paper aims to contribute to a constructive and deep debate on how to increase equality and justice in Paraguay’s taxation system. To this end, it submits a proposal for debate: to increase tax revenues through a temporary tax on the export of soybeans together with other revenue measures (e.g. improving tax revenues on land, […]

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A Safe and Just Space for Humanity: Can we live within the doughnut?

13/02/2012

4 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Humanity’s challenge in the 21st century is to eradicate poverty and achieve prosperity for all within the means of the planet’s limited natural resources. In the run-up to Rio+20, this discussion paper presents a visual framework – shaped like a doughnut – which brings planetary boundaries together with social boundaries, creating a safe and just […]

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The Changing Role of Civil Society in a Middle-Income Country

20/12/2011

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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This case study from Oxfam India reviews some of the issues arising from India’s recent evolution to a middle-income country and offers solutions from across a wide range of India experience. 35 interviews with academics, leaders of marginalised communities, social movements, NGOs, donors and representatives of the corporate sector provide insights and answers to questions […]

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When Work Won’t Pay: In-work poverty in the UK

29/11/2011

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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For the past 30 years, the political consensus has held that work is the best route out of poverty. Yet more than four million of the 13.5 million people who live in poverty in the UK are working. There is clearly a contradiction between the consensus and the reality. This paper is a discussion of […]

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Budget Support in Fragile Situations

11/11/2011

1 documents

208 pages long

Languages: English

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This study aims to provide an evidence basis for the provision of budget support in fragile states. The study sits at the intersection of three main sets of issues: fragility, budget support, and accountability (with a particular focus on the role of, and space or, civil society in holding government to account). The study provides […]

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Stigmatising Poverty? The ‘Broken Society’ and reflections on anti-welfarism in the UK today

01/06/2011

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11 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper explores the stigma of the most disadvantaged sections of society in the UK today. In the context of economic and financial crisis, there is a strong anti-welfarism based on the idea that welfare provision is to blame for the social and moral crisis in the UK. This idea is also perpetuated by the […]

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Can Public Services ‘Protect the Vulnerable’ in the Age of Austerity? Considering the evidence on street-cleaning services in the age of growth

01/06/2011

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11 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper focuses on whether public service provision serves the needs of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the UK. It summarises evidence from a study of street-cleaning services in the UK, which shows that resource allocation does not always follow needs – even at a time when there was public spending growth and the needs of deprived […]

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Understanding India’s Global Engagements

25/05/2011

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42 pages long

Languages: English

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This working paper questions India’s role in global affairs and explores what drives and shapes its international engagement by focusing on its global policies (specifically food security and agriculture) and its stance in climate change negotiations with other developing countries. It also looks at India’s role in the G20 and the potential for the emergence […]

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