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Unpublished papers may be accessed via the Research section of the site.

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  • September 2010
    Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics

    The UNRISD Flagship Report seeks to explain why people are poor and why inequalities exist, as well as what can be done to rectify these injustices. It explores the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty; examines what works and what has gone wrong in international policy thinking and practice; and lays out a range of policies and institutional measures that countries can adopt to alleviate poverty.

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  • August 2010
    South-South Migration: Implications for Social Policy and Development
    Author: Katja Hujo, Nicola Piper

    In an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, migration has emerged as one of the central policy challenges of the future, fermenting debates on a national and international level. This book moves beyond the migration-development nexus by exploring the neglected issue of South-South migration, and its implications for social policy and development.

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  • July 2010
    Time Use Studies and Unpaid Care Work
    Author: Debbie Budlender

    Across the world, unpaid care work—unpaid housework, care of persons, and "volunteer" work—is done predominantly by women. This book examines the variation across seven, mostly developing, countries in patterns of paid and unpaid care, drawing on data from large-scale time use surveys. The book concludes that responses need to be grounded in an analysis of specific contexts, which in turn strengthens the need for data collection and the type of analysis presented in this book.

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  • May 2010
    Business, Politics and Public Policy: Implications for Inclusive Development
    Author: José Carlos Marques, Peter Utting

    Through conceptual and historical analysis, as well as case studies from Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico, Peru, Russia and South Africa, this collection examines the predominant means by which corporate interests directly and indirectly influence social, labour market and development policy, the reasons for their positions and the scope of their influence.

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  • November 2009
    Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development?
    Author: José Carlos Marques, Peter Utting

    The corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement has been instrumental in raising awareness that firms have responsibilities other than to their owners and 'the bottom line'. Yet despite all the talk about the importance of stakeholders, transparency, corporate citizenship and sustainability, the developmental and regulatory impacts of CSR remain highly questionable. This book, edited by Peter Utting and José Carlos Marques, assesses the global rise of private regulation and CSR from the perspective of social and sustainable development. By adopting a multidisciplinary lens, it examines why the experience of CSR pales in comparison with the promise, what needs to be done to address 'the intellectual crisis' of CSR, and forms of corporate accountability and regulation more conducive to inclusive patterns of development.

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