This paper explores the opportunities for a ‘just transition' to low carbon and sustainable energy systems; one that addresses the current inequities in the distribution of energy benefits and their human and ecological costs. In order to prioritize policies that address energy poverty...

Social interactions are a quintessential part of human life, and their quantity and quality determine a person's social or relational capabilities (capabilities involving relations with others). In addition, social institutions and social competencies play a critical role in advancing...

Sustainability for a society means long-term viability, but also the ability to cope with economic crises and disasters. Just as with natural disasters, we can minimize the chance of them occurring and set in place policies to protect the world's citizens against their consequences. This paper...

Environmental constraints have always had and will always have important consequences for human development. It has sometimes contributed to or even caused the reversal of such development. The possibility that such constraints will grow significantly throughout this century raises the concern...

This paper assesses how the participation of developing countries in global governance has evolved in recent decades and the impact this has had on international cooperation and the provisioning of global public goods. The analysis shows that, as a group, developing countries have become...

This paper examines the transformation of global governance triggered by the rise of the global South. Section 1 analyses the global governance of finance, the area in which emerging economies have been most open in challenging existing institutions. Section 2 assesses changes in the global...

Changes in the size and structure of human populations are conventionally modeled and projected by stratifying the population by age and sex. Here we present new approaches, which use multidimensional demographic methods to add educational attainment as a third dimension in studying population...

What role can social movements and civil society play in promoting transformative development in the global South? This paper argues that inclusive and democratic forms of development depend on a delicate balance between the market, the state and civil society. Globalization has created new...

The rise of the South poses three broad challenges. The first challenge is for developing countries to seize the momentum for accelerating human development. Nearly all of the fastest-growing economies in this century are in the South, and many have an opportunity to rise from their low rankings...

Individual development-oriented policies can significantly impact human development, but analysing the relative effects of multiple policies on the long-term course of human development faces two comparison problems: 1) countries begin from very different starting points, so that...