The history of insurance and insurance mediation in Bulgaria can be divided into four periods - from 1878 to 1946; from 1946 to 1989; from 1989 to 2007; and after the accession of Bulgaria to the EU in 2007. The most significant regulatory at the end of the penultimate period and the last period are related...

This report summarizes and synthesizes the outcomes of a pilot testing project on a set of UNRISD-designed Sustainable Development Performance Indicators (SDPI) that are intended to gauge whether economic entities are on a pathway consistent with the transformative goals and vision of the 2030...

Despite a broad agreement on the importance and necessity of an integrated approach and some meaningful development of methods and tools for an integrated approach, comprehensive, practical and concrete guidance on how to plan, implement and evaluate an integrated approachbased project (IABP) is...

Policymakers have placed growing weight on the importance of integrated approaches for tackling complex development challenges. There have also been increased calls to focus attention and resources on addressing the specific challenges posed by borderland regions, considering that protracted...

In recent years, scholars have paid more attention to an integrated approach, which entails identifying and addressing cross-cutting issues beyond an initiative's policy field, domain or sector, as a means of enhancing the performance of development projects. However, few studies offer a...

This study investigates the scaling-up dynamics as one form of integrated approach in peacedevelopment nexus projects pursued by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in the Mekong region, with particular reference to Lao PDR and Cambodia. Integrated approaches can be witnessed in...

This paper employs a multidisciplinary social sciences approach to analyse the political power of contemporary economic elites in the political sphere of Western democratic countries. Economic elites are defined as the wealthiest members of society characterized by their disproportionate access...

Unpaid care work amounts to an astronomical figure of 2 billion hours per day in the world of which three quarters are performed by women. This reality explains, to a large extent, the little progress that has been seen in reducing gender gaps, as far as employment, wages and use time are...

This study examines and provides reasons for the stalled implementation of an integrated approach to addressing security, environment and development challenges in Zone 3 of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). Zone 3, which covers the borderlands connecting Uganda,...