As Ministers and representatives of Development Partners meet in Quang Tri province for their bi-annual Consultative Group meeting, “achieving breakthroughs in poverty reduction” will be high on the agenda.

According to the Climate Risk Index, less developed countries are generally more affected than industrialised countries. The countries affected most in 2013 were the Philippines, Cambodia and India. For the period from 1994 to 2013 Honduras, Myanmar and Haiti rank highest.

This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless.

This paper describes the interventions undertaken in the Doe Mao Salong watershed in an effort to restore the landscape and improve the livelihoods of local communities.

A USAID country profile of Myanmar. The profile includes indicators on population, land, fresh water, trees and forests and minerals, with discussion for each covering resource quantity, quality and use, legal framework, tenure types, administration, rights and conflicts and donor interventions.