This report is meant to document the use of the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) to inform the food security situation in countries of interest for DEVCO. Since the GFSI is a composite indicator, a clear understanding of its modelling choices is needed to insure a well-informed use of the...

A fairness based narrative is tested against existing EU policy objectives as framed in the EU 2020 agenda. We submit that considerations linked to inequity should not be taken as 'correctives' to be applied to an agenda dominated by innovation, competitiveness and growth. Fairness, or better...

A fairness based narrative is tested against existing EU policy objectives as framed in the EU 2020 agenda. We submit that considerations linked to inequity should not be taken as 'correctives' to be applied to an agenda dominated by innovation, competitiveness and growth. Fairness, or better...

This paper tests the generalized Trivers Willard hypothesis, which predicts that parents with heritable traits that increase the relative reproductive success of males compared to females will have relatively more males than females. As in Kanazawa (2005) we test if taller mothers have...

We estimate the economic impacts associated with investing in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) of Childhood diseases (Malaria, Diarrhea, Pneumonia), Noncommunicable diseases, Tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS in ten low- and lower-middle income countries that account for 67% of deaths worldwide, for the...

This paper tests the generalized Trivers Willard hypothesis, which predicts that parents with heritable traits that increase the relative reproductive success of males compared to females will have relatively more males than females. As in Kanazawa (2005) we test if taller mothers have...