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On 24-27 July 2012 in La Paz, Bolivia, DPAD provided intensive practical training for Government experts on the use of the modelling tools adapted to evaluate the impact of external shocks on attaining the Millennium Development Goals, among other obje ...

A workshop on "Strengthening Macroeconomic and Social Policy Coherence through Integrated Macro-Micro Modelling" will be held on 24-27 July 2012 in La Paz, Bolivia. Jointly organized by UDAPE (i.e, a technical unit of the Ministry of Development Planni ...

July 2012 Summary: Marked deceleration in global trade Progress made in EU bank recapitalization and growth pact Growth slows in Brazil and India Monthly data of global and regional trade confirm that a marked deceleration of international trade is und ...

On 10 and 11 July 2012 in Tegucigalpa, DPAD conducted a workshop to introduce government officials to modelling tools needed to evaluate the impact of external shocks on attaining the Millennium Development Goals. The activities were jointly organized ...

The workshop on "Strengthening Macroeconomic and Social Policy Coherence through Integrated Macro-Micro Modelling" will be held on 10 and 11 July 2012 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jointly organized by DPAD, UNDP and the Government of Honduras, this worksh ...

The World Economic and Social Survey 2012was launched today in New York. The need for additional and more predictable financing has led to a search for new sources – not as a substitute for aid, but as a complement to it. A number of innovative initiat ...

The report: Realizing the Future We Want for Allcontains the main findings and recommendations of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 UN Development Agenda to the UN Secretary-General. This report is to serve as a first reference for the broader c ...

In Search of New Development Finance Difficulties in raising sufficient domestic and external resources to finance the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), along with the numerous drawbacks of tra ...

A new policy brief on global health fundsargues that disease-specific vertical health funds should be consolidated into a single global health fund. While vertical funds have been purpose effective, disease-specific interventions have often been diffic ...