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Making Cities Resilient Report 2012

My City is Getting Ready - A Global Snapshot of How Local Governments Reduce Disaster Risk

Series: Making Cities Resilient Report
( PDF: January 2013 )

This report is a product of cities' and local governments' efforts to protect their cities and make them safer and productive places to live and work. Today, with more that half of the world's...

This report is a product of cities' and local governments' efforts to protect their cities and make them safer and productive places to live and work. Today, with more that half of the world's...


Arms Bazaar, The

Series: ODS Lecture
( Print: November 1996 )

This lecture, by the former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sanchez, reveals the extent and surge of the arms trade in the post-cold war world and its consequences for development.

This lecture, by the former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sanchez, reveals the extent and surge of the arms trade in the post-cold war world and its consequences for development.


Global Competitiveness and Human Development

Allies or Adversaries?

Series: ODS Lecture
( Print: April 1997 )

The nations of the developing world are not just emerging markets, as the phase has it. They are human societies. This publication walks us through the systemic human development problems that emerge...

The nations of the developing world are not just emerging markets, as the phase has it. They are human societies. This publication walks us through the systemic human development problems that emerge...


People First

Series: ODS Lecture
( Print: March 1998 )

This book expresses the primacy of people centred development. It calls for a partnership between key institutions such as the United Nations and Government to give people 'a chance' by working...

This book expresses the primacy of people centred development. It calls for a partnership between key institutions such as the United Nations and Government to give people 'a chance' by working...