Studies the patterns of information sharing on both social media and traditional print media in two contemporaneous conflict zones both with postcolonialism historical roots.
Examines how blockchain, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence with machine learning, and satellite imaging are being or could be implemented to decrease uncertainty and mitigate risks to support agricultural production and distribution.
This Note builds on research covering the three countries with the highest concentration of Syrian refugees displaced since 2011: Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon.
In this report, the authors examine key issues (such as childcare costs, negative attitudes, wage gaps, and sexual harassment) that constrain women's employment and could hinder improvement of Egypt's economic outlook.
This article introduces a hybrid governance perspective to disaster management. Hybrid governance refers to situations where state and non-state actors collectively provide key services.
This chapter introduces some of the key issues facing scholars and practitioners of disaster risk reduction in urban areas, which are now home to over half of the global population.
In this study, we provide an overview of the situation of Syrian refugees and other non-citizens living in host countries. We explored the cases of Turkey, Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy, Canada and Australia.
This review highlights the state of knowledge about the conditions, competencies, and incentives needed for labor inspectors in developing countries to successfully carry out their work.
The RAND Corporation evaluated the Population and Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov) and its progress in achieving its goals of building and advancing the field of economic demography, orienting the work toward policy-relevant research, increasing economic policymakers' recognition of the value of lowering population growth rates and investing in family planning, and strengthening research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.
With the world's second largest economy, China has the capacity to engage in substantial programs of development assistance and government investment in any and all of the emerging-market countries. RAND researchers assessed the scale, trends, and composition of these programs in 93 countries in six regions: Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia.
How to effectively increase access to and quality in higher education in developing countries is a highly debated topic.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for the majority of global morbidity and mortality. In support of the UN General Assembly's goal to "set a new global agenda" on NCDs, this paper is a first step toward developing a policy research agenda for improving access to NCD medicines in developing countries. Looking at the full range of obstacles to access, the authors lay out the underlying causes and identify ideas for addressing them.
Haiti's future prosperity and peace require building a more effective, resilient state. RAND researchers identified Haiti's main challenges and recommended a set of state-building priorities that are necessary, feasible, and sustainable.
Hope for a prosperous and peaceful future for Haiti lies in building a more effective, resilient state. This report identifies the main challenges to more capable governance, evaluates existing plans for improving the delivery of public services, and proposes a realistic set of critical actions. The proposed state-building priorities merit the greatest degree of Haiti's and international donors' policy attention and financial commitment.
