units: Development Research Branch (DRB)
Development Research Branch (DRB)
26 January 2017
How much a person earns or owns is not the only indicator of well-being, says Alarcon. You also have to look at access to education, proper housing, health care and decent jobs. "In those dimensions of development, progress has been made," she says. "Although large inequalities remain."
24 November 2016
On the 23rd of November 2016, the DPAD/DSP unit organized a Development Policy Seminar where the draft report of the International Panel on Social Progress (“Rethinking society for the 21st century” – working title) was presented by Professor Marc Fleu ...
21 November 2016
On 16 November, DSP/DPAD organized a side event at the COP22 in Marrakesh entitled Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development Policies: building national capacity to address the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development. The objecti ...
10 November 2016
UN DESA | Development Policy and Analysis DivisonIn the context of the COP22 in Marrakesh, DPAD organized a side event to present the World Economic and Social Survey 2016: Building Climate Resilience, an Opportunity for Reducing Inequalities. The even ...
10 November 2016
Perhaps no other word has been repeated more frequently than “integrated” to describe the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. Yet policymaking is approached sector-by-sector. The allocation of resources and the political accountability a ...
7 November 2016
UN DESA | Development Policy and Analysis DivisonDPAD conducted the 2nd Training Workshop in the Water Evaluation and Planning System (WEAP) in Kampala, Uganda (31 October- 4 November). The WEAP model for Uganda, developed by experts from KTH, is one o ...
4 November 2016
Our Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Lenni Montiel, and the team of authors behind the World Economic and Social Survey 2016: “Climate Change Resilience – An opportunity for reducing inequalities” in UN DESA's Development Policy an ...
3 November 2016
UN DESA | Development Policy and Analysis Divison On November 2nd 2016, the Development Strategy and Policy Analysis Unit of the Development Policy and Analysis Division (DESA/DPAD/DSP) hosted a Development Policy Seminar on "Technology and Innovation ...
28 October 2016
UN DESA | Development Policy and Analysis Divison On 24 October 2016, the 2016 World Economic and Social Survey; “Climate Change Resilience: an opportunity for reducing inequalities” was launched in Mexico City for a regional audience in Latin America. ...
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