Regulating Humanitarian Governance: Humanitarianism and the ‘Risk Society’ by Stuart Gordon

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Biased policy professionals by Banuri, S, Dercon, S, Gauri, V

“…Experiments conducted on a novel subject pool of development policy professionals (public servants of the World Bank and the Department for International Development in the UK) show that policy professionals are indeed subject to decision making traps, including the effects of framing outcomes as losses or gains, and most strikingly, confirmation bias driven by ideological predisposition, despite having an explicit mission to promote evidence-informed and impartial decision making. …”

Do Intra-Country Pollution Havens Exist? FDI and Environmental Regulations in China. by Zhang, J, Fu, X

A Comprehensive Model of Technological Learning: Empirical Research on Chinese Manufacturing Sector. by Chen, J, Pu, X, Shen, H

Foreign Ownership, and Learning and Innovation in the Automotive Firms in Brazil, India and South Africa: The Role of Institutions in Technological Capability Building. by Rasiah, R

Private sector quality of care for maternal, new-born, and child health in low-and-middle-income countries: a secondary review by Georgina Morris, Blerta Maliqi, Samantha R. Lattof, Joe Strong, Nuhu Yaqub

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Can a multistakeholder initiative improve transparency and accountability in the pharmaceutical sector? Evidence from the Medicines Transparency Alliance by Taryn Vian, PhD, Jillian Clare Kohler, PhD, Deirdre Dimancesco, MBA, Gilles Forte, PhD

“…Funding: World Health Organization through a grant from the UK Department for International Development.…”
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Who Wants To Share? Attitudes Towards Horizontal Redistribution Across the Globe by Frances Stewart, Arnim Langer, Line Kuppens

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“The River is Our Street.” Intersectional Rural Protest in Brazil’s Amazon by Claudia Horn

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Livelihood assessment in district 1 of Medellin – Colombia by Mendoza Ciro Alfonso Serna, Czerny Miroslawa, Pineda Abraham Allec Londoño, Rojas Oscar Alonso Velez

“…The Department for International Development model is applied to an urban zone with the purpose of making an assessment of the livelihood of the district ’la Comuna 1’ in Medellin, Colombia, which has been recognised as the poorest and one of the most dangerous districts of the city. …”
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Women’s mid-life health in Low and Middle Income Countries: A comparative analysis of the timing and speed of health deterioration in six countries by Tiziana Leone

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When a Good Science Base is not enough to Create Competitive Industries: Lock-in and Inertia in Russian Systems of Innovation. by Narula, R, Jormanainen, I

Acacia senegal and the gum arabic trade: monograph and annotated bibliography by Fagg, C, Allison, G

“…Prominent among these are the acacias, and for this reason a series of projects was started in 1987 at the Oxford Forestry Institute, funded by the Overseas Development Administration (now Department for International Development) of the Government of the United Kingdom, to explore, assemble and evaluate the genetic resources of the most widespread and economically important African acacias, including <em>Acacia senegal</em>.…”

Horizontal Inequalities: A Neglected Dimension of Development. by Stewart, F

Old wine in new bottles: A comparison of emerging market TNCs today and developed country TNCs thirty years ago by Dunning, JH, Kim, C, Park, D

Country diagnostic report, Kenya by Olago, D, Opondo, M, Mumma, A, Ouma, G, Dulo, S, Trevett, A, Harvey, P, Hope, R, Stallone, A, Koehler, J, Katuva, J, James, R, Washington, R, Bradley, D, Cheeseman, N, Borgomeo, E, Charles, K, Thomson, P

A Conceptual Framework for Human Security. by Alkire, S

Fragile States. by Stewart, F, Brown, G

Sustainable livelihood among aquaculture entrepreneurs: the case of Cambodian migrants in Malaysia by Md. Yassin, Sulaiman, Mohamed Shaffril, Hayrol Azril, Othman, Mohd Shahwahid

“…The questions included within the interview protocol were largely based on the Pentagon developed by the department for international development. The Pentagon is a framework for sustainable livelihood based on five main capitals, namely human capital, social capital, financial capital, natural capital and physical capital. …”
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Relationship between selected demographic factors and livelihood among rural youth in Gerakan Daya Wawasan Villages, Malaysia by Chew, Chun Meng

“…The conceptual framework was developed based on the “Pentagon” developed by Department of International Development from the review of literatures. …”
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