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17 October 2014
Staffmembers from across DESA and other UN offices and agencies convened their first expert group meeting on 16 October in New York, to discuss the sketches of the five chapters that will comprise the 2015 World Economic and Social Survey (WESS). DPAD ...
17 September 2014
Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, Faculty of Economics at University of Cambridge, was the featured speaker at the Development Policy Seminar held at the UN Headquarters today. Speaking on his most recent book, Economics: The User's Guide, Dr. Chang introduced a wide ...
7 August 2014
The role of selected policy instruments in reducing income inequality Giovanni Andrea Cornia Download Paper Land Ownership Patterns and Income inequality in Southern Africa Sam Moyo Download Paper Sustainability and Inequality Frances Stewart Download ...
26 July 2013
The Development Strategy and Policy Analysis Unit (DSP) of DESA-DPAD organised a live Facebook chat on the World Economic and Social Survey 2013 which focuses on Sustainable Development Challenges. DSP wishes to use the social media to reach out to int ...
15 July 2013
In an open forum on Sustainable Development Challenges held today, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Shamshad Akhtar, emphasized the need for immediate collective action to address the challenges of food security, energy transformat ...
2 July 2013
The World Economic and Social Survey 2013: Sustainable Development Challenges was launched today in Geneva by the Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Shamshad Akhtar, and the Chief of the Development Strategy and Policy Analysis Unit ...
20 June 2013
2013 Policy Brief No.40: Integrated Strategy for Sustainable Cities June 2013 Download Paper Policy Brief No.41: Increasing public spending in agricultural R&D to ensure food security in developing countries June 2013 Download Paper Policy Brief No ...
14 November 2012
Improved international tax cooperation could yield up to $200 billion annually for developing countries, almost double the amount of development assistance currently provided to them. A background paper by Prof. Valpy FitzGerald, commissioned in prepar ...
7 November 2012
New sources of innovative financing can play an important role in raising resources for development and the financing of global public goods post 2015. Rob Vos, Director of DPAD, highlighted this and other findings published in the World and Economic a ...





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