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Events >

• What Role for Latin America in the World: Policy Shaper or Policy Consumer?
  07 July 13:00-14:30
• The impact of US and UK legislatures on aid delivery
  08 July 09:30-11:00
• The effects of the global financial crisis on poor countries: Views from Asia 
  14 July 2009 17:30-19:00

Blogs >

Publications >

• Disasters vol. 33, no. 3
  ODI Journal
• Development Policy Review, vol. 27, no. 4
  ODI Journal
• Making elections count
  ODI Opinion by Bhavna Sharma
• Too little, too late? The UN and the global financial crisis
  Article in OpenDemocracy
• Anguish, oil and the Amazon
  Article in the New Statesman
• The politics of climate change
  Article in OpenDemocracy by Simon Maxwell
• Strengthening science–policy dialogue in developing countries: The opportunities for knowledge intermediaries
  Article by Harry Jones
• The global financial crisis and developing countries: Synthesis of the findings of 10 country case studies
  ODI Working Paper
• The implications of the global financial crisis for developing countries' export volumes and values
  ODI Working Paper
• The global financial crisis and sub-Saharan Africa: The effects of slowing private capital inflows on growth
  ODI Working Paper
• The global financial crisis and remittances: What past evidence suggests
  ODI Working Paper
• Closing the gap between climate adaptation and poverty reduction frameworks
  ODI Project Briefing
• The future of climate finance: a new approach is needed
  ODI Opinion by Jessica Brown

Making elections count

Donors need to be aware that their role in elections is limited, as is their influence on the process or results. In this ODI Opinion, Bhavna Sharma urges them to shift to longer-term and consistent support for the electoral process.

• More ODI work on governance and politics

ODI journals among the best for impact

ODI journals Development Policy Review and Disasters have been given Impact Factors by Thomson ISI of 1.409 and 1.273, respectively, ranking them 8th and 14th out of 43 planning and development journals.

The UN, the great recession, and the world's poor

The United Nations should take a lead on monitoring the impact of the 'great recession' on the developing world, argue Alison Evans and Dirk Willem te Velde on OpenDemocracy.

Hidden lives: refugees in the cities

This new blog highlights the urgent need for better strategies to support the millions of refugees and internally displaced people in cities.

Poor countries hit harder than expected by global financial and economic crisis

An ODI study reveals a vivid picture of falling trade, dwindling remittances and lost jobs. The study has been quoted by the Economist and is also summarised in an ODI blog.

Tackling child poverty in West Africa

A series of reports, launched at a UNICEF/ODI event, show the importance of social protection programmes for child well-being in West Africa.

Six messages on climate change

As ODI's event series on climate change and international development ends, a blog by Natasha Grist draws out six lessons from the key speakers.

The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) conundrum

How can we meet the MDG targets without missing the point, asks Jan Vandemoortele in a freely downloadable article for ODI Journal, Development Policy Review.

Corruption in emergency aid – back in the headlines

Aid agencies need to be more honest and open about corruption in order to tackle it effectively, argues a Reuters Alertnet article citing an ODI study by Sarah Bailey.