General Assembly of the United Nations
Economic and Financial - Second Committee

The role of governments and all stakeholders in mobilising information and communications technologies for sustainable development

♦  concept note     

♦  programme  

♦  presentations:

• ICT for D: Examples in service delivery
  Prof. Vijay Modi, Columbia University
• Predicting diseases. Saving lives.
  Dr. Dhesi Baja Raja - AIME Inc.
• Digital dividends
  Mr. Deepak Mishra, World Bank Group

Sustainable strategies for eradicating poverty through youth employment and entrepreneurship

♦  concept note and programme     

Sovereign debt restructurings: Lessons learned from legislative steps taken by certain countries and other appropriate action to reduce the vulnerability of sovereigns to holdout creditors

♦  background note            ♦  concept note 

♦  programme-flyer             ♦  speakers' bios     

♦  presentation:

• Sovereign debt restructuring: What's wrong and how it can be solved?
  Mr. Martin Guzman, Columbia University

28 October 2016
Friday @ 10 AM

One year of Sustainable Development Goals: Where the regions are

♦  concept note     

♦  programme  

♦  presentations:

• Ms. Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary, ESCAP
• Ms. Rima Khalaf, Executive Secretary, ESCWA
• Mr. Christian Friis Bach, Executive Secretary, ECE
• Mr. Abdalla Hamdoc, Deputy Executive Secretary, ECA
• Mr. Antonio Prado, Deputy Executive Secretary, ECLAC

7 October 2016
Friday @ 10 AM

The changing political economy of globalization: multilateral institutions and the 2030 Agenda

♦  concept note and programme     

♦  background note            ♦  flyer            ♦  speakers' bios

♦  informal summary by the President of ECOSOC and  
    the Chair of the Second Committee