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Millennium Development Goals Scenarios to 2015 and Beyond: An Integrated Micro-Macro Modelling Approach In February 2014, experts of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), with technical support from UN-DESA, released a discussion pap ...

The Global Economic Outlook, chapter 1 of the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2014, was launched today in a press briefing by the Assistant-Secretary-General for Economic Development, Shamshad Akhtar, and Acting Director of the Development Polic ...

Due to the inclement weather in the New York City area, today's Development Policy Seminar is postponed until January. DPAD apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause.Today, Professor Angus Deaton, Professor of Economics and International Affairs ...

The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) held a briefing on "Alternative Development Strategies for the Post-2015 Era" on 25 November as part of the 5th Session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. In her opening statement, Sha ...

DESA/DPAD, in collaboration with the Project LINK Research Center of the University of Toronto, held its annualExpert Group Meeting on the World Economy (Project LINK conference)from October 21 to 23 in New York.The conference was attended by some 80 e ...

The Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD) joined hands with the Economic Development Department  (EDD) of South Africa to organize a high-level policy workshop on the International Capital Flows and Financialisation of the South African Econo ...

Jan Vandemoortele, former Director of the UNDP Poverty Group and UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator to Pakistan, presented his paper on "Inequality and Gresham's Law: Does the bad drive out the good?" in an open forum organized by DPAD/DESA today ...

The World Economic Situation and Prospects2013 (WESP) is being launched today in cities across the globe: Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Beirut, Geneva, Mexico City, New Delhi; and on January 22nd in Moscow. The definitive report of the United Nations on the st ...

"The global economy is still in a very precarious situation and the outlook is most sobering". Robert Vos, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of UN/DESA, presented the Global Economic Outlook at a special joint Second Committee an ...