Discussions
A New E-learning course is available: Register and discover the Inequality Marker!
Are you interested in expanding your knowledge on the EC approach to inequality reduction? Would you like to better understand the recently endorsed and launched Inequality Marker (I-Marker)? If the answer to all these questions...
IMF Working Paper No. 2023/079 : Are We Heading for Another Debt Crisis in Low-Income Countries? Debt Vulnerabilities: Today vs the pre-HIPC Era
https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/WP/2023/English /wpiea2023079-print-pdf.ashx Abstract: There are growing concerns that 25 years after the launch of the HIPC debt relief initiative, many low-income countries are...
Looking for Digitalisation Experts EU Technical assistance
The EU facility, SOCIEUX +, is looking for experts for a short-term mission in Azerbaijan on digitalisation of social protection services. More info here
Looking for Digitalisation Experts EU Technical assistance
The EU facility, SOCIEUX +, is looking for experts for a short-term mission in Azerbaijan on digitalisation of social protection services. More info here
Report outlining evidence of FLEGT-VPA impacts across seven countries NOW OUT!
This study synthesizes qualitative and quantitative evidence of EU-FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) impacts across seven countries – Cameroon, Ghana, Indonesia, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Guyana and Honduras...
Three lessons on tackling corruption and strengthening governance
Corruption continues to take a heavy toll on countries around the globe. The consequences of corruption occasionally make the international headlines in a spectacular manner, such as when the Afghan government collapsed in 2021...
Case study on Awareness and Fundraising Campaign ‚Together for Ethiopia‘ as a Response of Slovak nonprofits to the Conflict in the Tigray Region
Ethiopia has had years of turbulent political development and no history of democracy to build on. And so, despite promising democratisation reforms and awards from abroad, it once again fell into the abyss of authoritarianism...
IMF Working Paper: Financial Performance and Macrofinancial Implications of State-Owned Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa
IMF Working Paper No. 2022/056 - Using a newly-compiled dataset of state-owned enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa, we present aggregate information about profitability, liquidity and leverage. We find that 40 percent of the close...
On Challenges of Slovak nonprofits in Providing Humanitarian Aid in the Middle East Region
The presented document follows up on the previous political document from the Ambrela workshop entitled ‘Development and Humanitarian Activities of the Slovak Republic in the Middle East in response to the Syrian Crisis,’ which...