The past 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world - many of them for the better. Across the continents, many countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As a result, economies...

This report aims to advance the dialogue on creative, forward-looking solutions for developing countries by presenting recent innovations on disaster risk financing and insurance developed by the private markets as well as the international donor community, from the macro (government) level down...

Citizens, markets, and transnational labor activism -- Labor rights as human rights : regulation in the context of a "thinned" national state -- Monitoring multinationals : lessons from the anti-apartheid era -- Social labels, child labor, and monitoring in the Indian carpet industry --...