World Economic and Social Survey

Sustainable Development Challenges The world is faced with challenges in all three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental. For instance, more than 1 billion people are still living in extreme poverty, income inequalit ...

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 ...

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 ...

2012 Absorbing Innovative Financial Flows: Looking at Asia Rehman Sobhan Download Paper Adopting a Currency Transaction Tax When Avoidance is a Possibility: Which Currencies Would Take the Lead and What Rate Could they Charge? David Stubbs Download Pap ...

The Great Green Technological Transformation To meet both the global development objectives of conquering poverty and protecting the environment, the World Economic and Social Survey 2011 calls for a complete transformation of technology on which human ...

2011 Agricultural innovation for food security and environmental sustainability in the context of the recent economic crisis: Why a gender perspective? Diana Alarc

Retooling Global Development The World Economic and Social Survey 2010 highlights the systemic weakness unmasked by the recent global crises and proposes reforms in international arrangements to eliminate these deficiencies and gaps in global governanc ...

2010 Development in an interdependent world: old issues, new directions? John Toye Download Paper Economic integration, inequality and growth: Theory and comparative assessment Giovanni Andrea Cornia Download Paper Energy Intensity, Greenhouse Gas, and ...

Promoting Development, Saving the Planet The World Economic and Social Survey 2009 argues that mitigation and adaptation efforts can better move forward as part of a development strategy built around a massive investment-led transformation, along low-c ...