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Sustaining Development and Resilience in SIDS: Beyond Crisis Management
Sustaining
Development and Resilience in SIDS: Beyond Crisis
Management
by Leisa Perch and
Rathin Roy, International Policy Centre for Inclusive
Growth
Human development
in small island development states (SIDS) has been steady and measured as high.
The Caribbean, on average, ranks higher than the Pacific on the Human
Development Index (HDI): Barbados is ranked at 37, and St. Kitts and Nevis at
50, compared to Samoa at 94 and Fiji at 108 (UNDP, 2009). In general, the SIDS
invest more than other countries in education and health; on average, government
spending accounts for more than 60 per cent of all spending in the health sector
(Perch and Roy, 2010).
http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCOnePager113.pdf
Posted at 10:59AM Jul 22, 2010 by IPC in Inclusive Growth | Comments[0]
Low-Cost Technologies Towards Achieving the Millennium Development Goals:
Policy Research Brief No. 12
The Case of Rainwater
Harvesting
By Christian Lehmann, Raquel Tsukada and Acácio
Lourete
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) remains a
daunting challenge for many countries in the face of small state budgets and
limited donor support. This Policy Research Brief highlights the contribution of
a low-cost water supply strategy to a number of MDGs. It also discusses
innovative financing schemes to scale up the implementation of such
strategies.
http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/port/IPCPolicyResearchBrief12.pdf
Posted at 12:09PM Feb 12, 2010 by IPC in Inclusive Growth | Comments[0]