The 100 Most Important Questions for Development
ASAP is supporting ID100, a collaborative project to identify the 100 most important questions for development after the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. Led by the Sheffield…
ASAP Welcomes Dynamic New Global Board Members and Officers
Academics Stand Against Poverty has added significantly to its poverty and organizational expertise with the appointment of three new members to its Global Board of Directors, as well as communications…
ASAP Study: Curbing Illicit Financial Flows Post-2015
Illicit financial flows are gaining recognition as an important issue for development. As 2015 and the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals draws nearer there are calls both from civil society and from within the UN system to make control of such flows a priority within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is still an open debate as to the role they should play in the world’s sustainable development agenda.
Call for Papers on Participation and Climate Governance
< CISDL/GEM Working paper Series on Public Participation and Climate Governance Call for PapersS Deadline for submission of abstracts: rolling until May 15, 2014 The Centre for International Sustainable Development…
Call for Papers: Child Poverty, Youth (Un)employment and Social Inclusion
\”Child Poverty, Youth (Un)employment and Social Inclusion\” – Workshop Organized by the Comparative Research Program on Poverty (CROP), the Institute of Labor, and Democritus University of Thrace Athens, November 19-21,…
Jeffrey Sachs Speaks on Future of Sustainable Development
The Yale Global Justice Program and ASAP hosted Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University for a special lecture, \”Sustainable Development Goals: The Emerging Global Agenda.\” Critical responses were given by…
Jeffrey Sachs, \”Sustainable Development Goals: The New Global Agenda\”
Video footage of Jeffrey Sachs\’s lecture \”Sustainable Development Goals: The New Global Agenda\”, which was presented at Yale University on February 18, 2014. This event was organized by the Yale…
New Legal Reference: Human Rights and Climate Change Policy-making
The Center for International Sustainable Development Law, Academics Stand Against Poverty, and the Governance, Environment & Markets Initiative at Yale University have developed a new legal reference guide that examines…
\”HIF for Education\” Explored by Gordon Brown
An online educational analogue to the Health Impact Fund is currently being developed by Gordon Brown, the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, to provide free primary secondary, and tertiary education courses that would be universally accessible in developed and developing countries.
Call for Applications: Research Fellowship at Yale\’s Global Justice Program
The Global Justice Program at Yale University is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow or equivalent research fellow to strengthen its intellectual work on global justice, world poverty, human rights,…