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The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is an independent think tank that focuses on international development and humanitarian issues. It does so by performing applied research, generating practical policy advice, providing policy-focused information dissemination and debate, and partnering with the public and private sectors in a variety of countries. The ODI Briefing Papers cover such issues as poverty reduction, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries.

Publishers: Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Publications: Defining ‘Aspirational Yet Attainable Targets’ for New Goals Post-2015
How Should the New International Disaster Risk Framework Address Gender Equality?
Biofuels and Local Food Security
Understanding Climate Change Finance Flows and Effectiveness: Mapping of Recent Initiatives
Gender and Climate Finance
Climate Finance Thematic Briefing: REDD+ Finance
The Global Climate Finance Architecture
The Green Climate Fund
Emerging Democracies: Rising to the Challenge
Climate Finance Regional Briefing: Middle East and North Africa
Climate Finance Regional Briefing: Asia and Pacific
Climate Finance Regional Briefing: Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate Finance Regional Briefing: Latin America and the Caribbean
Climate Finance Thematic Briefing: Mitigation Finance
Climate Finance Thematic Briefing: Adaptation Finance
Climate Finance Readiness
Options for Including Community Resilience in the Post-2015 Development Goals
Working with the Politics: How to Improve Public Services for the Poor
Property Rights and Development Briefing
The End of Cheap Rice: A Cause for Celebration?
Looking Back, Peering Forward: What Has Been Learned from the Food-price Spike of 2007–2008?
Diverting Grain From Animal Feed and Biofuels
Focusing on What Matters in Aid-for-Trade
Private Sector Investment in Water Management
Public Financial Management Reform in Fragile States
Disaster Risk Management in Post-2015 Policy Frameworks
The Practical Challenges of Monitoring Climate Finance
Delivering Maternal Health
Non-State Security and Justice in Fragile States
Citizen Voice and State Accountability
Measuring Aid to Agriculture and Food Security: Losing the Plot?
Changing Focus? How to Take Adaptive Capacity Seriously
Getting Better Results from Assitance to Fragile States
Making the EU's Common Agricultural Policy Coherent with Development Goals
Taking Responsibility for Complexity
Fragile States: Measuring What Makes a Good Pooled Fund
Lessons on Accountability in Forest Governance
Involving Youth in Development Policy Research: Lessons Learned
The Feasibility of Financing Sectoral Development Targets
Security, Humanitarian Action and Development
An Opportunity for Change?
Responding to External Economic Shocks: Why State Capacity and Political Incentives Matter
Support to Political Parties
Planning and Budgeting in Southern Sudan: Starting From Scratch
Brazil: An Emerging Aid Player
Social Protection Programming: The Need for a Gender Lens
Gender, Politics and Social Protection
Gender-sensitive Social Protection and the MDGs
Economic Growth and the MDGs
The MDG Fundamentals: Improving Equity for Development
Sector-based Approaches in Agriculture
Doha and the Global Crisis
Raising the Game: Mainstreaming Children's Rights
Aid Effectiveness Through the Recipient Lens
The Global Financial Crisis and Developing Countries
Helping Researchers Become Policy Entrepreneurs
'State-building for Peace': Navigating an Arena of Contradictions
The Global Financial Crisis: Poverty and Social Protection
HIV and Emergencies: One Size Does Not Fit All
Value Chain Analysis and Poverty Reduction at Scale
Biofuels: Could the South Benefit?
Growth without Development: Looking beyond Inequality
Achieving Economic and Social Rights: The Challenge of Assessing Compliance
HIV, Food and Drugs
Opportunity and Exploitation in Urban Labour Markets
Is Water Lagging behind on Aid Effectiveness?
The WTO Doha Round Impasse
Gender and the MDGs
Aid Effectiveness after Accra: How to Reform the ‘Paris Agenda’
Rising Food Prices: A Global Crisis
Untangling Links Between Trade, Poverty and Gender
Common Funds for Sector Support
The Political Economy of Pro-Poor Growth
Supporting Pro-Poor Growth Processes: Implications for Donors
Pro-Poor Growth and Development
Biofuels and Development: Will the EU Help or Hinder?
Achieving the MDGs: The Fundamentals
Voice for Accountability: Citizens, the State and Realistic Governance
AIDS and the Private Sector: The Case of South Africa
AIDS and the Private Sector: The Case of South Africa
Mapping for Better Accountability in Service Delivery
Linking Social Protection and the Productive Sectors
Rural Employment and Migration: In Search of Decent Work
Closing the Deal: IMF Reform in 2007
How Can the Analysis of Power and Process in Policy-Making Improve Health Outcomes?
Budget Support to Ghana: A Risk Worth Taking?
Economic Partnership Agreements: What Happens in 2008?
Can Tourism Offer Pro-Poor Pathways To Prosperity?
Assessing How Tourism Revenues Reach The Poor
Central Asia: Governance, Geopolitics And Development Challenges
Parliaments and Development
Changing Aid Delivery And The Environment
Budget Monitoring And Policy Influence
Global Health: Making Partnerships Work
Policy Space: Are WTO Rules Preventing Development?
Sanitation and Hygiene
Creating Development Friendly Rules of Origin in the EU
Internal Migration, Poverty and Development in Asia
Re-examining Sovereign Debt
Understanding HIV/AIDS and Livelihoods
Food, Nutrition and HIV - What next?
Scaling-up the HIV/AIDS Response
The "Development Dimension" - Matching Problems and Solutions
The Potential Effects of Economic Partnership Agreements
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Policy Engagement for Poverty Reduction - How Civil Society Can be More Effective
Bretton Woods Reform: Sifting through the Options in the Search for Legitimacy
What Would Doubling Aid do for Macroeconomic Management in Africa?
Promoting Mutual Accountability in Aid Relationships
Tourism Business and the Local Economy
Can Tourism Help Reduce Poverty in Africa?
Governance, Development and Aid Effectiveness
Aftershocks: Natural Disaster Risk and Economic Development Policy
Globalisation and Education
Water and the GATS: Mapping the Trade - Development Interface
Linking Policies and Budgets: Implementing Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks in a PRSP Context
Scaling Up Versus Absorptive Capacity: Challenges and Opportunities for Reaching the MDGS in Africa
Regional Integration and Poverty
Inequality in Middle Income Countries
Right to Water: Legal Forms, Political Channels
Developed Country Cotton Subsidies and Developing Countries: Unravelling the Impacts on Africa
Why Budgets Matter: The New Agenda of Public Expenditure Management
From Plan to Action: Water Supply and Sanitation for the Poor in Africa
Food Policy Old and New
Results-Oriented Public Expenditure Management: Will it Reduce Poverty Faster?
Can we Attain the Millennium Development Goals in Education and Health Through Public Expenditure and Aid?
Options for Rural Poverty Reduction in Central America
The "Water Crisis": Faultlines in Global Debates
International Humanitarian Action: A Review of Policy Trends
Foreign Direct Investment: Who Gains?
Rethinking Rural Development
Economic Theory, Freedom and Human Rights: The Work of Amartya Sen
Can there be a Global Standard for Social Policy? The "Social Policy Principles'" as a Test Case
Reforming Food Aid: Time to Grasp the Nettle?
What Can We Do With a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
Global Governance: An Agenda for the Renewal of the United Nations?
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