International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters? (2025)
Report
Dryden, A., & Volz, U. (2025). International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?

While capital markets hold great potential for mobilising the vast sums required for climate mitigation and adaptation, their volatility presents significant risks to emerging and developing economies (EMDEs). This study examines the role that intern... Read More about International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?.

The Rise of Social Protection in the Global South: The Role of Foreign Aid (2022)
Report
Niño-Zarazúa, M., Horigoshi, A., Santillán Hernández, A., & Ernesto, T. (2022). The Rise of Social Protection in the Global South: The Role of Foreign Aid

More than half of the world’s population has no access to social safety nets or social insurance. What is international development aid doing to address this? This study demonstrates that, while international aid has contributed to the expansion of s... Read More about The Rise of Social Protection in the Global South: The Role of Foreign Aid.

Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad (2022)
Journal Article
Canelas, C., & Niño-Zarazúa, M. (in press). Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad. The Journal of Development Studies, 58(7), 1436-1458. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2061856

How social protection programmes affect work choices is a question that has been at the centre of labour economics research for decades. More recently, a scant literature has focused on the effects of social protection on work choices and informal em... Read More about Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad.

An Agenda for International Action on Commodities and Development: Issues for EU Agenda beyond the MDGs (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper
Nissanke, M., & Kuleshov, A. An Agenda for International Action on Commodities and Development: Issues for EU Agenda beyond the MDGs. Brussels

The overarching objective of this paper is to examine the recent developments and experiences in commodity markets, trade and production in order to gain a deeper understanding of commodity related developmental challenges as historically evolved and... Read More about An Agenda for International Action on Commodities and Development: Issues for EU Agenda beyond the MDGs.

Jamaica: Mature Democracy but Questionable Accountability (1995)
Book Chapter
Harrigan, J. (1995). Jamaica: Mature Democracy but Questionable Accountability. In J. Healey, & W. Tordoff (Eds.), Votes and Budgets: Comparative Studies in Accountable Governance in the South. Macmillan and St Martins