Development Research

The State of the Global Partnership for Development: In its latest report, the MDG Gap Task Force found much progress towards achieving the goals set under MDG 8.

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 ...

Strengthening the Global Partnership for Development in a Time of CrisisFurther progress has been made towards fulfilling the promises embodied in the Millennium Development Goal 8 (MDG 8). However, the Global Partnership for Development has suffered i ...

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 ...

October 2008 Summary:  The world economy is facing the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression of the last century. The risk for a global recession has heightened significantly and volatility of commodity prices has increased further. I ...