Research initiative bringing together applied research from a variety of disciplines, including economics, planning, finance, architecture, and engineering in researching housing affordability problems exist in the Boston metropolitan area.
The Poverty Action Lab serves as a focal point for development and poverty research based on randomized trials in order to improve poverty programs by providing policy makers with clear scientific results to shape policies to combat poverty.
Reflection by Ricardo Zapata Martà on his "recent experience in the evaluation processes of some recent disasters in which he participated in assessing the damage and losses caused to countries of different size and level of development".
Transcript of Remarks to UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) regarding recovery efforts in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami by UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery President Bill Clinton.
Collection of online resources for the microfinance industry.
"This resource centre promotes sound practices in insurance provision through the exchange of knowledge and experience. Insurance is one tool to reduce the vulnerability of poor people."
Site promoting the Partner-Agent model of microinsurance, linking micro-finance institutions with regulated insurance companies to provide professional insurance products to the low-income market, while maintaining the risk with a regulated insurer.
Report intended "to learn about and compare the perceptions of hygiene and sanitation at household, community and‘ official’ levels" in an effort to better underastand the community trends that influence adoption.
According to this article "a new picture of the island’s economy is emerging, one in which it actually stands to benefit from December’s catastrophe".
Guidelines "intended to increase awareness among those involved in designing and implementing development co-operation programmes of the threats posed by natural hazards and of the range of measures that may be adopted so as to reduce their impacts".
