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Public works programmes (PWPs) are pervasively used to tackle poverty and unemployment, and to build infrastructure and skills in low- and middle-income countries. While their impacts on poverty, food security and labour outcomes have been widely documented, there is little research focusing on the role of PWPs in supporting household climate resilience in the global context of a deepening climate crisis. To fill this gap, we propose a conceptual framework that links the different components of PWPs – wages, infrastructure, and skills development – to household capacity to cope with, and adapt to, climate-related shocks. We use this framework to guide our review of empirical experimental and quasi-experimental evidence on the multiple short-term and long-term effects of PWPs on resilience to weather shocks, such as floods, droughts and cyclones. Such evidence mostly draws from a few programmes in India, Ethiopia and Malawi. Overall, we find that, through the wage component, PWPs can be effective in enhancing household resilience through increasing savings and productive investments. However, these benefits usually only materialize in the case of regular, long-term programmes, as opposed to ad-hoc/temporal PWPs. PWPs’ infrastructure component can play a crucial role in supporting households’ long-term capacity to adapt to shocks, especially in the case of “climate-smart” infrastructure, with positive externalities beyond direct programme beneficiaries to communities. There is a key evidence gap investigating the effects of PWPs through the infrastructure component on both beneficiaries and other community members, as well as on the role of on-the-job training and its capacity to strengthen resilience in combination with the infrastructure component. Evidence from different socioeconomic contexts is also scarce. Another key gap relates to the identification of the main mechanisms through which these relationships operate. Filling these gaps will support policy makers taking decisions about when to implement PWPs (especially in comparison with other social protection interventions), and how to design them to tackle vulnerability to climate change.

Humanitarian aid is increasingly guided by strategic interests rather than humanitarian needs. Europe’s humanitarian commitments are under strain as geopolitics reshapes international solidarity. Rising nationalism, debt pressures and great-power rivalry have pushed European governments to prioritise strategic interests over humanitarian needs. European politicians are increasingly justifying aid disbursements to their public through the lens of national security and strategic influence.
• Authoritarian regimes weaponise these geopolitical trends to stoke distrust in the international community. They often label humanitarian actors as foreign agents, while state propaganda delegitimises international assistance as self-motivated and hypocritical, reframes aid as interference to justify crackdowns on the humanitarian space.
• That is why the way European donors talk about humanitarian aid matters as much as how they provide it. My experimental research in Turkey shows that transparent communication about the realpolitik behind humanitarian aid may help counter authoritarian propaganda in highly polarised middle-income countries with widespread anti-Western attitudes. My findings indicate that when donors openly acknowledge strategic motivations, propaganda messaging
may lose its effectiveness among conservative, nationalist and Eurosceptic constituencies in recipient countries, whose attitudes are often hard to shift. Transparent communication may reduce conspiracism among this group, increase their trust in Europe and their support for international trade, while their support for the incumbent government may decline. Winning over these constituencies would be critical to democracy protection initiatives, as they often lend normative and systemic support to autocrats.
• However, donors must strike a careful balance and adopt a dual approach. While strategic messaging can persuade Eurosceptics, it may also alienate pro-EU, cosmopolitan citizens who value unconditional solidarity. They may grow disillusioned with European donors if humanitarian aid appears too self-interested or transactional. Donors should communicate strategic interests with transparency but still remain anchored in humanitarian values.
• Further research is needed to fully explore the implications of geopolitical shifts in aid, especially in middle-income autocracies with widespread anti-Western attitudes. In particular, more research is required to fully calibrate transparent messaging and mitigate negative unintended consequences.

Macron elnök az ENSZ-közgyülés margóján hivatalosan is elismeri Palesztinát. Elmélkedtem kicsit róla, hogy miért. Mi lehet ezzel a politikai célja?

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The push splits EU countries between those that want a crack down and those eager to keep the holiday rubles flowing in

The northern region of Schleswig-Holstein is well on its way to moving its public administration from Microsoft software to open source alternatives

Le Directeur de l'Office du Baccalauréat (OB), Dr Alphonse da Silva et des cadres de l'Office qu'il dirige ont été primés lors d'une cérémonie organisée à Porto-Novo, samedi 13 septembre 2025, par la Fédération des mouvements et associations de groupes œuvrant pour la paix, la médiation, l'unité nationale et le vivre ensemble (FENAMAG).

Le Baccalauréat béninois est devenu un label reconnu dans la sous-région et à l'international. Et ce, en raison de la modernisation qui la caractérise. La Fédération des mouvements et associations de groupes œuvrant pour la paix, la médiation, l'unité nationale et le vivre ensemble, émerveillée par les prouesses innovantes de l'Office du Bac, a honoré les responsables lors d'une cérémonie à Porto-Novo le week-end dernier.
Une distinction spéciale a été décernée au Dr Alphonse da Silva, directeur de l'Office du Bac.
Le directeur des affaires financières (DAF), le directeur des systèmes d'information (DSI), et la secrétaire particulière et d'autres cadres ont reçu la distinction décernée à l'Office du Bac.

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Poland, too, on Saturday was moved to issue a drone threat that forced it to deploy aircraft

Former US ambassador to Berlin is on the offensive over comments by Elmar Theveßen, Washington bureau chief for German public broadcaster ZDF

The gesture was welcomed by Germany, after organisers of the Ghent Festival cancelled a performance by the Munich Philharmonic

Satellites, drones, and AI won’t win wars alone. But without them, Europe risks being blind, slow, and behind the realities of modern warfare

With long petrol queues on city roads, everyday issues dominate in the run-up to Tuesday's vote.

The EU is mulling over ways to keep Ukraine's army supplied whatever happens

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By now, inequality has assumed centre stage in many international debates. For example, whilst the headline focus of the MDGs until 2015 was on halving extreme poverty, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development added an SDG on inequality reduction. This shift in policy focus has implications for global governance. This chapter discusses key measures and trends of global inequality, investigates the importance of inequality for other important aspects of the global economy, and sketches some of the implications for global governance. For space limitations, we focus on global income inequality. [...].This chapter discusses inequality measures and trends in income inequality and wealth. It also distinguishes national and global inequalilty. The chapter covers income and wealth and their respective trends before sketching out key implications for global governance.

Die deutsch-französische Freundschaft, einst als Motor der Europäischen Union gefeiert, der Binnenmarkt und Großprojekte zuverlässig vorantrieb, ist ins Stocken geraten. Sowohl Paris als auch Berlin waren zuletzt immer wieder durch eigene politische Krisen vom gemeinsamen Kurs abgelenkt.

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Autrefois étranger, Bolsonaro a eu un impact durable sur la démocratie brésilienne.

Belgien ist nach eigenen Angaben der weltweit zweitgrößte Importeur von Känguru-Produkten – insbesondere über Flandern. Das könnte sich nun bald ändern.

Der US-Anteil an den LNG-Importen der EU lag im August bei 70 Prozent; die Vereinigten Staaten sind auf dem Weg, Norwegen als wichtigsten Lieferanten der EU abzulösen.

In der heutigen Ausgabe: Gaza: Europaparlament fordert Mitgliedstaaten auf, Palästina anzuerkennen; Polen: Frankreich sagt Lieferung von Kampfflugzeugen im Rahmen der NATO-Aufrüstung zu; Belarus: Festgehaltener EU-Mitarbeiter Mikalai Khilo in Gefangenenaustausch freigelassen.