“The clock is now ticking towards one of the most important global gathering in many years—the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009. There participants will seek to adopt a new global framework to address climate change. The new World Economic and Social Survey — Promoting Development, Saving the Planet — is an important contribution to this effort.

As this Report indicates, the scale of the climate challenge means that relying on carbon markets alone will not produce the investment in infrastructure and technology which is required to address climate change. Sound public policy and investments are needed to support low carbon routes to development and to build adaptation into development strategies.

This is essentially a new way of looking at development. The new climate deal in December will need to deliver the finance required for development in a carbon-constrained age.”

— Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

World Economic Situation and Prospects: Monthly Briefing, No. 14 (November)

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Trade openness and poverty: success and failure in Central America, Marco V. Sánchez

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