The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has just released the latest UNDP Human Development Report. Published annually since 1990, each report ranks country achievements based on the well-known, high-respected and widely used living standard measure, the Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI combines measures such as health, education and...
The full paper is available through the Sustineo publications page here. Remittances are an important source of foreign income for developing countries, increasing dramatically in size over recent decades. Developing country remittance receipts were $US0.3 billion in 1971. These receipts are expected to reach $US350 billion in 2011, up from $...
Long-Term Swedish Development Co-operation with Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Laos
The Swedish development cooperation agency (Sida) commissioned evaluations of three long-term development co-operation programmes in Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Laos. The overall purpose of the evaluations was to provide an historical account of development co-operation...