Library of democratic content

Latin America’s missing middle of midsize firms and middle-class spending power

Digital could help the region reboot inclusive growth and regain lost ground.

Mission-led employee-owned firms: The Best of the Best

This report examines mission-led employee firms as a “powerful model of enterprise design for a new era of environmental sustainability and social equity” (Stranahan and Kelly, 2019).

Who Influences whom in the policy arena? Statisticians seek greater voice

“Propelled by national demand for greater access to and control over Big Data, panelists at the seminar on financing data and statistics side event were asked how National Statistical Offices (NSOs) could be better supported in “their institutional transformation from producers of statistics to data stewards.” (Adams and Judd, 2019).

A Fatal Attraction?

This paper examined the 50th Session of the UN Statistical Commission and the theme of “the often tense interface between data and policy-making and the asymmetrical power dynamics that shape it” (Adams and Judd, 2019).

Globalization in transition: The future of trade and value chains

"Global value chains are being reshaped by rising demand and new industry capabilities in the developing world as well as a wave of new technologies" (Lund et. al., 2019).

What you get for your dollar

“This briefing paper provides an overview of the approach underlying EA” and “concludes that policy makers...must instead concentrate on understanding the confounding structural causes of interdependent global challenges and aim at their long-term solution, within an overarching human rights framework” (Seitz 2019).

The Future of Work Guide

“This guide seeks to build a bridge from the voluminous future of work research to the core ingredients of future of work policy that will need to be weighed over the coming years. Through our cross-country comparison... we highlight core factors and key takeaways” (Atkinson and Brown, 2019).

Testing the resilience of Europe’s inclusive growth mode

The combination of six global megatrends is increasing the stress on Europe’s inclusive growth and the EU social contract.

What is the Business of Business?

Back in the 1970s, Milton Friedman wrote in The

Times that “the business of business is business.”

In a chaotic and hyperconnected world, does

this still ring true? Where do profit and social

responsibility intersect?

A guide to spreading social enterprise

"This free guide will help social entrepreneurs better understand the complexities of setting up a social enterprise in eight ASEAN countries… It outlines governance and regulatory obligations and provides guidance on the taxes that apply to such organisations and expenses that are tax deductible. Case studies are also included" (Newman et al., 2018).