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The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous UN agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Through its research and publication activities, UNRISD stimulates dialogue and contributes to policy debates on key issues of social development, within and outside of the UN system.

Publishers: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Publications: Oil Rents, Policy and Social Development
Redistributive, Neoliberal or New Paradigm?
Do Policies for Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies Deliver What they Promise?
The Drivers of Universal Health Care in South Africa
Political and Institutional Drivers of Social Security Universalization in Brazil
From Consensus to Contention: Changing Revenue and Policy Dynamics in Uganda
Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Development in Nicaragua
Universal Health Coverage: The Case of China
Social Policy in Venezuela
India’s Fragmented Social Protection System
Welfare: Theoretical and Analytical Paradigms
Interaction between Popular Economy, Social Movements and Public Policies
The Hidden Side of Social and Solidarity Economy
Burden of Disease in China
La consolidación de las iniciativas de economía social y solidaria: alcances y desafíos
Policy Actors and Policy Making for Better Migrant Health in China
The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy
Regional Policy Frameworks of Social Solidarity Economy in South America
La presencia de la economía social y solidaria y su institucionalización en América Latina
Fiscal Capacity and Aid Allocation
A Longitudinal Study of Migration and Health
Two Decades of Research on Migrant Health in China: A Systematic Review
The Political Economy of Pension Re-Reform in Chile and Argentina
Environment, Health and Migration
Extractive Industries, Revenue Allocation and Local Politics
Coming Home: The Return of Migrant Workers with Illness or Work-Related Injuries in China’s Hubei and Sichuan Provinces
Social and Solidarity Economy
The History of Resource Mobilization and Social Spending in Uganda
Conflicting Priorities in the Promotion of Gender Equality in Ethiopia
Elites, Ideas and the Challenge of the Double Incorporation
Chinese Migrant Workers and Occupational Injuries
Reproductive Health and Access to Services among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Contestation and Social Change: The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization in Bolivia
Mobilizing Domestic Revenues in Aid-Dependent Uganda
An Anti-Development Model? Overcoming Obstacles to Domestic Resource Mobilization in Zimbabwe
The Influence of Migration on the Burden of and Response to Infectious Disease Threats in China
When and Why do States Respond to Women's Claims?
New Directions in Social Policy: Alternatives from and for the Global South
Gender and Agriculture after Neoliberalism
What Kind of Welfare State is Emerging in China?
Seeing Big: Transformative Social Policies in Small States
Ethnic Diversity, Development and Social Policy in Small States
An Instrument for Social Protection and Climate Change Adaptation?
Securing the Home Market: A New Approach to Korean Development
Social Policy and Employment: Rebuilding the Connections
Inequalities and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Combating Poverty and Inequality
Social Policy and Employment
Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy
Work and Welfare
Towards Universal Social Security in Emerging Economies
Green Economy or Green Society?
Inequalities and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Economic and Social Development in the Republic of Korea
Gender Patterns and Value of Unpaid Work
Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy
Social Policies in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
Social Policies in Samoa
Veinticinco años de cuidados en Nicaragua 1980-2005
Welfare Regimes and Social Policy
The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development
Recapturing the Narrative of International Development
The Emerging Policy for Green Economy and Social Development in Limpopo, South Africa
An Institutional Analysis of Biofuel Policies and their Social Implications
Social Dimensions of Green Economy
Sustainable Development Through Policy Integration in Latin America
Payment for Ecosystem Services Markets on Aboriginal Land in Cape York Peninsula
The Political Economy of Green Growth in India
Green Economy and Sustainable Development
Gendered Impacts of Globalization
Pension Reforms and Gender Equality in Latin America
Gendered Impacts of Globalization
The Global Political Economy of REDD+
Realizing Local Development in the Carbon Commodity Chain
A Fair Green Economy?
Climate Change, Double Injustice and Social Policy
Religion, Politics and Gender Equality
Assessing the Structure of Small Welfare States
Social Policies in Malta
Social Policies in Grenada
Defining and Measuring Social Cohesion
Religion, Culture and the Politicization of Honour-Related Violence
Faith-Based Organizations and Service Delivery
Combating Poverty and Inequality
Childcare Service Expansion in Chile and Mexico
The Changing Coordinates of Trade and Power in Latin America
The Changing Shape of the Care Diamond
Why Care Matters for Social Development
The Political and Social Economy of Care in Nicaragua
Harmonizing Global Care Policy?
Social Relations and Associations in the Informal Sector in Kenya
Social Protection and Poverty
Social and Political Dimensions of the Global Crisis
The Political and Social Economy of Care
De la Françafrique à la responsabilité sociale des entreprises
The Political and Social Economy of Care in the Republic of Korea
Social Policy in Mineral-Rich Countries
Community Responses to HIV and AIDS
A Debate on the Public Role of Religion and its Social and Gender Implications
The Implications of Migration for Gender and Care Regimes in the South
Institutional Monocropping and Monotasking in Africa
Migration and Poverty
Trade, Regionalism and the Politics of Policy Making in Nicaragua
Migration and Social Development
The Private Affairs of Public Pensions in South Africa
The Statistical Evidence on Care and Non-Care Work across Six Countries
Global Civil Society Movements
Business, Social Policy and Corporate Political Influence in Developing Countries
Social Policy and Migration
Explaining Ireland's Development
Transnational Governmentality and Resource Extraction
Social Insurance (Pension and Health), Labour Markets and Coverage in Latin America
Natural Gas, Indigenous Mobilization and the Bolivian State
Commercialization and Globalization of Health Care: Lessons from UNRISD Research
Successful Targeting?
Remittances, Migration and Social Development
Toward a Typology of Civil Society Actors
Assessing the Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in the Global South
Social Policies and Water Sector Reform
The Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context
A Critical Review of Selected Time Use Surveys
Political and Social Economy of Care: Tanzanian Proposal
Social Policy and the Quest for Inclusive Development
How Far Does It Go?
Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America
Political and Social Economy of Care: South African Proposal
Political and Social Economy of Care: Korean Proposal
Corporate Partnerships and Community Development in the Nigerian Oil Industry
Public Pensions in a Development Context
Public Pensions in a Development Context
Political Space for Non-Governmental Organizations in United Nations World Summit Processes
Political and Social Economy of Care: Argentinean Proposal
The Return to Social Policy and the Persistent Neglect of Unpaid Care
The Rise and Development of the Global Debt Movement
Global Tax Initiatives: The Movement for the Currency Transaction Tax
A Critical Review of Selected Time Use Surveys
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector in Nigeria
The Political Economy of Corporate Responsibility in India
UN World Summits and Civil Society Engagement
Beyond Pragmatism: Appraising UN-Business Partnerships
Transformative Social Policy: Lessons from UNRISD Research
The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Uganda
Transnational Civil Society Movements
The Global Women's Rights Movement
Neither Public Nor Private
The Global Justice Movement
Trends in Government Support for Non-Governmental Organizations
NGOs and Social Movements: A North/South Divide?
Liberalization and HIV in Kerala
Pensions and Pension Funds in the Making of a Nation-State and a National Economy
Beijing Plus 10: An Ambivalent Record on Gender Justice
Mozambique's HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Gender Dimensions of Viet Nam’s Comprehensive Macroeconomic and Structural Reform Policies
Gendered Spaces in Party Politics in Southern Africa: Progress and Regress Since Beijing 1995
The Indian Parliament as an Institution of Accountability
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector in Switzerland
Disempowering New Democracies and the Persistence of Poverty
Foreign Direct Investment, Development and Gender Equity: A Review of Research and Policy
Targeting and Universalism in Poverty Reduction
The Social Bases of the Global Justice Movement
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector: Malaysian Experiences
Feminized Migration in in East and Southeast Asia: Policies, Actions and Empowerment
Land Tenure Reform and Gender Equality
Economic Policy Making and Parliamentary Accountability in Hungary
The World Bank as a Knowledge Agency
"Your Justice is Too Slow": Will the ICTR Fail Rwanda’s Rape Victims?
Beyond Buzzwords
Le contrôle parlementaire de l’action gouvernementale en République du Bénin
Economic Policy Making and Parliamentary Accountability in the Czech Republic
Environmental Movements, Politics and Agenda 21 in Latin America
The "Pay Your Taxes" Debate
Inequality and Conflict
The Search for Policy Autonomy in the South
The Sources of Neoliberal Globalization
Interpreting Globalization
Approaches to Globalization and Inequality Within the International System
Methodological and Data Challenges to Identifying the Impacts of Globalization and Liberalization on Inequality
Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia
Technologies, Power and Society
Rethinking Business Regulation
Neolibs, Neocons and Gender Justice: Lessons from Global Negotiations
In Quest of Sustainable Development
UN World Summits and Civil Society
The Politics of Welfare Developmentalism in Hong Kong
The Contemporary Global Social Movements
Civil Society in United Nations Conferences
Decentralizing Government and Centralizing Gender in Southern Africa: Lessons from the South African Experience
For or Against Gender Equality? Evaluating the Post-Cold War “Rule of Law” Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gendering Migration, Livelihood and Entitlements: Migrant Women in Canada and the United States
Women, Political Parties and Social Movements in South Asia
The Adult Worker Model Family, Gender Equality and Care
"Globalization" and Social Policy in a Development Context
The Politics of Gender and Reconstruction in Afghanistan
Livelihood Struggles and Market Reform: (Un)making Chinese Labour after State Socialism
The Feminization of Agriculture? Economic Restructuring in Rural Latin America
Environmental Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa
"Living for the Sake of Living": Partnerships between the Poor and Local Government in Johannesburg
The Politics of Land Distribution and Race Relations in Southern Africa
Chicago's Near South Side
Communities and Local Government: Three Case Studies in São Paulo, Brazil
Agricultural Restructuring and Trends in Rural Inequalities in Central Asia
Agrarian Research Institutes and Civil Society in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Post-Soviet Institutional Design, NGOs and Rural Livelihoods in Uzbekistan
The Political Economy of Corporate Responsibility in Brazil
Civil Society and Social Movements
Exclusionary Populism in Western Europe in the 1990s and Beyond
Environment and Morality
The Developmental Welfare State in Scandinavia
Late Industrializers and the Development of the Welfare State
Technocratic Policy Making and Parliamentary Accountability in Argentina, 1983–2002
The New Economic Policy and Interethnic Relations in Malaysia
Managing Ethnic Relations in Post-Crisis Malaysia and Indonesia
Technocratic Policy Making and Democratic Accountability
Barricades and Boardrooms
Lecciones de la participación política de las mujeres
Civil Society and the Uncivil State
Peasant Associations in Theory and Practice
Racial Justice
Policing and Human Rights
Poverty and Prosperity
Social Development and the Information Revolution
Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Regulation
Understanding the Evolving Diversities and Originalities in Rural Social Movements in the Age of Globalization
Economic Policy Making and Parliamentary Accountability in Chile
Migrant Workers and Xenophobia in the Middle East
Global Capitalism, Deflation and Agrarian Crisis in Developing Countries
Waking Up to Risk
The Political Economy of International Communications
Technology and Transformation
The Historical Construction of Race and Citizenship in the United States
Globalization, Liberalization and Equitable Development
Needs, Rights and Social Development
Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights
The Riddle of Distance Education
The Agrarian Question, Access to Land, and Peasant Responses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Gender Justice, Development and Rights
Reworking Apartheid Legacies
A Declining Technocratic Regime
African Decentralization
Women's Employment and Welfare Regimes
Agrarian Reform, Gender and Land Rights in Uzbekistan
Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Reform
Gender and Education
The Women's Movement in Egypt, with Selected References to Turkey
Multiculturalism, Universalism and the Claims of Democracy
Corporate Social Responsibility in Indonesia
Regulating Large International Firms
Gender of Democracy
Human Rights and Social Development
The Development Divide in a Digital Age
Grassroots Movements, Political Activism and Social Development in Latin America
Decentralization Policies and Practices under Structural Adjustment and Democratization in Africa
Social Policy in a Development Context
Breaking the Mould
Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Singapore and Malaysia
Corporate Codes of Conduct
Efficiency, Accountability and Implementation
Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries
Toward Integrated and Sustainable Development?
AIDS in the Context of Development
Social Movements, Activism and Social Development in the Middle East
Civil Society Organizations and Service Provision
Leaving the Rice Fields, But Not the Countryside: Gender, Livelihood Diversification and Pro-Poor Growth in Rural Viet Nam
Pay and Employment Reform in Developing and Transition Societies
Globalization and Social Development after Copenhagen: Premises, Promises and Policies
Global Economic Trends and Social Development
Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Charting the Course of Transnational Women's NGOs
Empirical Inquiries and the Assessment of Social Progress in Western Europe
Trade Unions and NGOs
Gender and the Expansion of Non-traditional Agricultural Exports in Uganda
The Political Economy of Pension Reform: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
Promoting Sustainable Human Development in Cities of the South: A Southeast Asian Perspective
Social Indicators and Welfare Monitoring
External Dependency and Internal Transformation
Recent Changes in Social Conditions of Countries in Transition: Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Globalization and Social Policy: The Threat to Equitable Welfare
Women in Contemporary Democratization
Public Sector Restructuring: The Institutional and Social Effects of Fiscal, Managerial and Capacity- Building Reforms
Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development
Civil Society, NGDOs and Social Development: Changing the Rules of the Game
ICTs and Social Development: The Global Policy Context
Mapping Russian Cyberspace: Perspectives on Democracy and the Net
New Directions in State Reform: Implications for Civil Society in Africa
Information Technology, Globalization and Social Development
The New Public Management Approach and Crisis States
Internetworking for Social Change: Keeping the Spotlight on Corporate Responsibility
The Greening of Business in Mexico
Partners in Time? Business, NGOs and Sustainable Development
The Conditions and Consequences of Choice: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment
Our Home is a Slum: An Exploration of a Community and Local Government Collaboration in a Tenants' Struggle to Establish Legal Residency
Female Employment Under Export-Propelled Industrialization: Prospects for Internalizing Global Opportunities in the Apparel Sector in Bangladesh
Las Iniciativas Campesinas y la Sostenibilidad de los Resultados de la Reforma Agraria en el Salvador, Nicaragua y Honduras
Peasant Mobilization for Land Reform: Historical Case Studies and Theoretical Considerations
Land Reform in Developing Countries: The Role of the State and Other Actors
Technology and Globalization: Modern-Era Constraints on Local Initiatives for Land Reform
Gender in the World Bank's Poverty Assessments: Six Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
Peasants' Pursuit of Outside Alliances in the Process of Land Reform: A Discussion of Legal Assistance Programmes in Bangladesh and the Philippines
Land Reform and Gender in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Assessing Poverty Alleviation Strategies for Their Impact on Poor Women: Study with Special Reference to India
Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Issues and Sources
Opposition and Resistance to Forest Protection Initiatives in the Philippines
Becoming a Garments Worker: The Mobilization of Women into the Garments Factories of Bangladesh
The Women's Movement and Political Discourse in Morocco
Conflict, Postwar Rebuilding and the Economy: A Critical Review of the Literature
Economic Globalization, Institutional Change and Human Security
Citizens, Local Government and the Development of Chicago’s Near South Side
Policy Dialogue and Gendered Development
New Information and Communication Technologies, Social Development and Cultural Change
Globalization and Civil Society: NGO Influence in International Decision-Making
Work Intensity, Gender and Well-being
Food Security in Cambodia
Their Choice or Yours: Global Forces or Local Voices?
Bargaining For Survival: Unionized Workers in the Nigerian Textile Industry
Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment and the Coping Strategies of Manufacturers in Kano, Nigeria
Gender, Demographic Transition and the Economics of Family Size: Population Policy for a Human-Centred Development
Gender and Urban Social Movements
Passing the Buck: Structural Adjustment and the Nigerian Urban Informal Sector
Some Ecological and Social Implications of Commercial Shrimp Farming in Asia
Femocrats and Ecorats: Women's Policy Machinery in Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Biodiversity and Human Welfare
La déforestation dans les zones de savane humide en Afrique centrale sub-saharienne
Forets, politique forestière et gestion des ressources naturelles en Guinée
Trade-Related Employment For Women In Industry And Services In Developing Countries
Gender Mainstreaming: A Study of Efforts by the UNDP, the World Bank and the ILO to Institutionalize Gender Issues
The Scandinavian Welfare States
Affluence, Poverty and the Idea of a Post-Scarcity Society
Religion, Fundamentalism and Ethnicity
The Debate on Economic and Social Security in the Late Eighteenth Century
From Vicious to Virtuous Circles?: Gender and Micro-Enterprise Development
Gender, Environment and Poverty Interlinks in Rural India: Regional Variations and Temporal Shifts, 1971-1991
On the Social Costs of Modernization: Social Disintegration, Atomie/Anomie and Social Development
Reforming Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Issues of Efficiency and Equity
The Social Impacts of Light Weapons Availability and Proliferation
The Politics of Integrating Gender to State Development Processes: Trends, Opportunities and Constraints Opportunities and Constraints
From WID to GAD: Conceptual Shifts in the Women and Development Discourse
Structural Adjustment in a Changing World
Environmental Degradation and Social Integration
Illicit Drugs: Social Impacts and Policy Responses
Social Integration: Approaches and Issues
Transition to What?: Cambodia, UNTAC and the Peace Process
Ethnicity and Development: The Case of Fiji
Pakistan: Ethno-Politics and Contending Elites
Democracy, Violence and Emancipatory Movements: Notes for a Theory of Inversionary Discourse
Understanding South African Political Violence: A New Problematic?
The Lebanese Shi'a and Political Violence
E.T.A. et la violence politique au Pays Basque espagnol
Structural Adjustment, Global Integration and Social Democracy
The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Conservation, Livelihood and Democracy: Social Dynamics of Environmental Changes in Africa
Economic Reform and Citizen Entitlements in Eastern Europe: Some Social Implications of Structural Adjustment in Semi-Industrial Economies
Development Data Constraints and the Human Development Index
Ruining the Commons and Responses of the Commoners: Coastal Overfishing and Fishermen's Actions in Kerala State, India
Greening at the Grassroots: People's Participation in Sustainable Development
Authoritarian Rule and Democracy in Africa: A Theoretical Discourse
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