UN-DESA
UN-DESA
11 May 2022
It is indispensable to incorporate a family perspective into migration policy analysis. Since families socialize and provide economically and emotionally for the next generation, they should be seen as essential for migrants’ integration into new societies. Thus, policies facilitating family reunification, social protection and intergenerational support are key in successful integration.
4 May 2022
The Data For Now initiative is supporting countries in developing their capacity to leverage innovative sources, technologies and methods to deliver better, more timely and disaggregated data for sustainable development.
21 March 2022
Credit ratings play an important role providing information on sovereign borrowers. But financial markets, including credit ratings, often over-emphasize short-term economic concerns, and underweight longer-term issues, including environmental and social risks as well as investment in resilience and sustainability.
26 February 2022
World population continues to grow and is expected to peak at a level of almost 11 billion around the year 2100. Most of this growth will take place in low-income and lower middle-income countries.
9 February 2022
Central banks have relied heavily on unconventional monetary policy tools, especially large-scale asset purchases, to respond to the pandemic. These programmes have helped to stabilize financial markets and kickstart economic recovery. But the central bank asset purchases have also contributed to an underpricing of risk and sharp increases in asset prices.
2 February 2022
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times. Sports plays an important role as part of the solution.
14 January 2022
Countries are urged to implement the UN Legal Identity Agenda model as matter of priority to establish the necessary interoperability between various government’s components for effective monitoring and assessing impacts of policy decisions.
14 January 2022
Documenting more evidence around post-COVID 19 transport measures can provide useful references in revamping transport systems.
5 January 2022
Regulators and other market participants have introduced a variety of mandatory and voluntary approaches to help investors align investments with sustainability goals.
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