This is the full recording of the seminar “The Resource Curse? Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy”. Katja Hujo, Samuel Asfaha and Alfredo Calcagno discuss selected UNRISD research findings from recent work on Mineral Rents and Social Policy and explore how development performance is not simply linked to resource endowment but is the outcome of more complex processes of “employing” resources. What constrains development, UNRISD research finds, lies not in what countries have, but rather in what they lack: institutions, financial leverage, human capital, appropriate policies and a favourable global context. Chaired by Peter Utting, UNRISD Deputy Director. [1:22:34]

Towards a Gender-Just Transformatory Policy: Assets, Agency and the Structures of Governance

This is the full recording of the seminar ‘Catching Up with the “Quiet Revolution”? Work-Family Policies in Latin America’ [1:07:17], presented by Juliana Martinez Franzoni (University of Costa Rica) and Merike Blofield (University of Miami). This talk examines policies that help reconcile work and families in Latin America. The speakers chart changes in policies adopted between 2000 and 2011 across several dimensions, including transfers, services and regulations for care occupations, specifically domestic workers.

This is a recording of Peter Utting's talk extracted from the full recording of the panel discussion “Solidarity Economy and Alternative Finance: A Different Development Model?” [15:21]. The full recording of the Seminar Series event is also available for download. The event was organized jointly by UNRISD and the Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) at the UN Human Rights Council's 2012 Social Forum.

This is the full recording of the Special Panel Discussion, “The Role of Social Security in Realizing Human Rights” [1:41:45] organized jointly by UNRISD and FORUM-ASIA in Bangkok, Thailand in September 2012. The panel and audience explore the relationship between social security and human rights and discuss which political, social and economic conditions are necessary for the realization of human rights. (Unfortunately there were technical difficulties with the recording of the audio at this event. This has affected the quality of the sound. However, as interesting ideas and lessons were shared during this panel discussion, we decided to make the recording available). Audio editing by Sherelle Wilson.

This is the full recording of the event “Solidarity Economy and Alternative Finance: A Different Development Model?” [1:39:32] organized jointly by UNRISD and NGLS as a side event at the UN Human Rights Council's 2012 Social Forum. Speakers include: Peter Utting (UNRISD), Frederic Lapeyre (International Labour Organization), Thomas Greco (Community Information Resource Center) and moderator Hamish Jenkins (Non-Governmental Liaison Service).

Feminization of agriculture in a neoliberal India: Interview with Supriya Garikipati

This is the presentation given by Mariama Williams from the South Center, at the UNRISD Seminar Series event "Multiple Global Crises and Gender: Rethinking Alternative Paths for Development" [19 minutes].

This is the presentation given by Naoko Otobe, from the International Labour Organisation, at the UNRISD Seminar Series event "Multiple Global Crises and Gender: Rethinking Alternative Paths for Development" [17 minutes].

This is the presentation given by Devaki Jain, co-editor of “Harvesting Feminist Knowledge for Public Policy: Rebuilding Progress”, and founder and former director of the Institute of Social Studies in Delhi, India, at the UNRISD Seminar Series event "Multiple Global Crises and Gender: Rethinking Alternative Paths for Development" [15 minutes].