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UNRISD pursues an active and varied publications programme, which includes in-house and commercially published books, special reports, programme and occasional papers, as well as newsletters on specific events and the Institute’s work in general.

This section provides a catalogue of our publications, and free online access to many of them. We encourage you to subscribe to our free email alerts service to be informed when new publications are posted on this Web site.

Unpublished papers may be accessed via the Research section of the site.



Post-War Bosnia: Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance
January 2006
Author: Florian Bieber

This book provides an in-depth analysis of governance in this divided post-war country, discussing power sharing, the return of refugees, electoral systems and international efforts at reforming the system of government. International intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina has been the first of a number of interventions in ethnically divided societies, from East Timor and Kosovo, to Afghanistan and Iraq, and may thus offer important lessons.

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Land Tenure Reform and Gender Equality
January 2006

This Research and Policy Brief reviews UNRISD research findings which show that the new generation of land tenure reforms introduced in the 1990s is not necessarily more gender equitable than earlier efforts, even though women's ability to gain independent access to land is increasingly on the statutes.

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Conference News: Understanding "Informational Developments": A Reflection on Key Research Issues
February 2006

This workshop brought together academics from various disciplines, researchers working with civil society, and subject specialists from donor and multilateral agencies in a collaborative effort to begin mapping key research issues relating to "informational developments" and development policy. Questions of whether informational developments are provoking fundamental changes in economic and social relationships were addressed, as was the potential for theory and empirical research to shed light on the changes taking place and the consequent choices facing development actors.

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Social Policy in the Middle East: Economic, Political and Gender Dynamics
January 2006
Author: Massoud Karshenas, Valentine M. Moghadam

This book provides political and economic perspectives on social policy and its evolution in the Middle East and North Africa. Chapters on Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey analyse its origins in populist or modernizing state activities, its decline in the era of neoliberalism and prospects for its renewal in a democratizing and development context. The collection offers unique historical and comparative data, as well as a gender analysis of social policy, that will be of relevance to specialists in social policy, development and the Middle East.

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Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World
February 2005

Based on the findings of UNRISD's ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, the report's analysis is centred on the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. If most of these reforms did not directly address gender equality, they nevertheless received considerable scrutiny from a gender perspective. And whatever their intentions, they had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women’s well-being.

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Latest Publications
Conference News: Understanding "Informational Developments": A Reflection on Key Research Issues
Land Tenure Reform and Gender Equality
Post-War Bosnia: Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance
Targeting and Universalism in Poverty Reduction
The Social Bases of the Global Justice Movement: Some Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Evidence from the First European Social Forum
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector: Malaysian Experiences
Social Policy in the Middle East: Economic, Political and Gender Dynamics
Economic Policy Making and Parliamentary Accountability in Hungary
Beyond Buzzwords: “Poverty Reduction”, “Participation” and “Empowerment” in Development Policy
The World Bank as a Knowledge Agency
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