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Eradicating poverty and achieving sustainable development are fundamental global challenges affecting the lives of current and future generations and the future of the entire planet. These challenges are universal and interrelated and need a global response. This agenda needs to be fit to address our globalized and inter-linked world, since business as usual is no longer an option whether in…

Land degradation, including desertification and drought are areas of global pressing concern and are exacerbated by climate change. The priority is to achieve a land-degradation-neutral world. This requires slowing the loss of land's natural capital, improving governance (including on access and tenure) and increasing resilience. Potential target topics could be: • Move towards a land…

The purpose of the United Nations Challenge Badges is to raise awareness, educate and, most of all, motivate young people to change their behaviour and be active agents of change in their local communities. Challenge Badges are appropriate for use with school classes and youth groups, and are endorsed by WAGGGS and WOSM. They include a wide range of activities and ideas that can easily be…

Recent research shows that the merger of economies increases aggregate stress. This paper shows that there is no income distribution policy which will ensure that the wellbeing of the individuals belonging to merging economies does not fall below their pre-merger level.

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than men’s. The lure of top positions induces…

The study investigates the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. The authors use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity across households, and show that the commercialization of vegetables through both market channels contributes positively to welfare, even…