The paper aims to deepen understanding of the design and implementation processes of public policies to promote the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Mexico City (CDMX) during the period 2016-2019, and to propose general guidelines to improve and refine them. The paper is based on a review...

Until the 1990s Kenya had a selective state-financed university system where students bore few educational costs. This limited the number of university students that the government could afford to educate and created fierce competition for university places. In the late 1990s the Kenyan...

The increasingly complex and protracted nature of forced displacement has precipitated a renewed interest in adopting a Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus approach in the UN, the international community and among donors. The project developed a Theory of Change (ToC) for use at the...

This scoping study has been commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to inform the development of a Theory of Change (ToC; UNRISD 2020) that illustrates the potential for their interventions, based on the...

Paper considers the impact of cash, debt, trade credit and equity financing on firm efficiency. Paper argues that 1) cash holding negatively affects firm efficiency, 2) debt and trade credit have both positive and negative impact on efficiency, 3) debt and trade credit are more conducive to...

In Colombia, the Occupational Risks General System (ORGS), a system to access medical and economic benefits in the event of an accident at work or occupational disease, covers only individuals working in the formal economy, including workers registered as independent. This means workers in the...

Arguably the most important step in the measurement and reporting of an organization’s performance is completion of a materiality determination beforehand. At base, materiality determinations address the all-important question of what the scope and criteria for analysis must be in each case,...