Corruption is now a popular topic in the social sciences. This expansion of interest is evident in economics and elsewhere, where a large number of articles on this theme have been published in leading journals. Some organizations publish indicative data on corruption. For example, Transparency International publishes a widely cited ―Corruption Perceptions Index‖ for most countries, and these d...

The bridging of the so-called digital divide is an important issue in today's development efforts of international and non-governmental organizations and developing countries. This does not only concern access to new information and communication technologies (ICT) such as the Internet, but also access to the know-how to use these technologies for economic development. Many of the recent intern...

Acknowledgements Minority Rights Group International (MRG) gratefully acknowledges the support of all organizations and individuals who gave financial and other assistance for this report, including the Department for International Development (UK). Assistance, the US State Department and many other organizations. He has served as a consultant on issues of constitutional design for 16 countries...

The State of Food Insecurity in the World raises awareness about global hunger issues, discusses underlying causes of hunger and malnutrition and monitors progress towards hunger reduction targets established at the 1996 World Food Summit and the Millennium Summit. The publication is targeted at a wide audience, including policy-makers, international organizations, academic institutions and the...

Focusing on community colleges in distressed rural areas of the United States, the Ford Foundation’s Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) aims to help targeted community colleges expand their capacity to increase access to postsecondary education and to foster regional economic development. RCCI is geared to specific geographic regions where communities face out-migration and stagnant or d...

As ICT and cyberspace become sources of impressive innovation, the reliance of organizations, governments, and people on them will increase. However, with this vast reliance, hazardous vulnerabilities have emerged. These vulnerabilities may be exploited, resulting in information and cybersecurity issues at the national as well as the international levels. Cybersecurity is critical for sustainin...

Bruegel, the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics held a joint workshop in Washington on February 8 and 9, 2007, on how to achieve an orderly reduction in global imbalances. Thirty of the world’s leading experts presented analyses and evaluations of the requirements for such an adjustment. The discussions centered on two sets ...

Malaria, a disease that has afflicted humans for more than 10,000 years (Frederick L. Dunn 2003), today infects some 300 million people and kills 1 million each year (Jeffrey D. Sachs 2001). Despite important advances in the control of malaria during the twentieth century, the disease remains stubbornly prevalent throughout much of the world. Faced with this huge global burden, international or...