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In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find his transformed nation just as obsessed with corruption and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In…

At its core , this book is about responding to change: the last few decades have seen the emergence of new aid actors, new aid modalities and perhaps most fundamentally, a new geography of global poverty.In light of these changes this book revisits the contested literature on aid and the uncertain evidence on aid effectiveness, and seeks to lessons and findings that might help us sketch out a…

The OECD is one of the world’s largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistical, economic and social data. It monitors trends, collects data, analyses and forecasts economic development, and investigates evolving patterns in a broad range of public policy areas such as agriculture, development co-operation, education, employment, taxation and trade, science, technology, industry and…

This classification and map of the ecosystems of the entire African continent represents the most current and finest spatial and thematic resolution characterization of African vegetation in its biophysical context available today. Each of these ecosystem types is distributed on the landscape in multiple occurrences, and this patch-level mapping of repeating ecosystem units distinguishes the…

Land degradation affects about 65% of Africa’s land and around six million hectares of productive land are lost each year. Inappropriate land use and poor management result in desertification, salinisation and soil and water erosion, creating a spiralling decline in the productivity of the land in terms of both food and other natural resources and services. The effects are often felt most by the…

Global Risks Report analyses the perceived impact and likelihood of 50 prevalent global risks over a ten year time horizon. The 50 global risks are divided into five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological risks. Significant interconnections of global risks are analysed as major case studies in the report.