Report to the Secretary-General. The purpose of a global development agenda is to provide guidance for priority setting at all levels (global, regional, national and sub-national). Such an agenda should help create an enabling environment to meet shared objectives, support...

An initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General. It is time for the international community to face the fact that we have a crisis in education. We must be clear that if children are forced out of school, their governments and communities are...

Research presentations at The POVERTY Conference 2001. This volume gathers a selection of the papers presented at the Poverty Conference in October 2001 in Stockholm, and it is Sida’s hope that it will stimulate the discussion on the role of...

Research presentations at the Poverty Conference 2001 An interesting and challenging paradigm shift is taking place, where poverty is not only seen as a lack of economic resources, health and education. The new concept also includes less easily measured conditions,...