{"id":17255,"date":"2016-05-10T21:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=17255"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:04:18","slug":"media-advisory-briefing-to-present-world-economic-situation-and-prospect-as-of-mid-2016-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/05\/media-advisory-briefing-to-present-world-economic-situation-and-prospect-as-of-mid-2016-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Media advisory: Briefing to present World Economic Situation and Prospect as of mid- 2016 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Briefing, Thursday, 12 May<\/strong><\/p>\n

What:<\/strong> Press briefing to present the World Economic Situation and Prospect as of mid- 2016 Report<\/p>\n

Economic activity in the world economy remains weak with little prospect for a turnaround in 2016, says the UN World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2016 report, which will be launched at UN Headquarters on 12 May at 11.00 am EDT.<\/p>\n

The World Economic Situation and Prospects report, produced jointly by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN\/DESA), the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the five UN regional commissions and the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), is an important annual analysis that provides an overview on current global economic growth, trends and prospects.<\/p>\n

Who:<\/strong>
\nMr. Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General, UN DESA
\nMs. Dawn Holland, Economic Affairs Officer, UN DESA<\/p>\n

Moderator:<\/strong> Ms. Francyne Harrigan, Chief, Development Section, UN Department of Public Information<\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> Thursday, 12 May, 11.00 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> S-237, UN Headquarters, New York or follow on webtv.un.org<\/p>\n

For more information on the mid-year report, visit: https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/development\/desa\/policy\/wesp\/<\/a>
\nFor UN Media Accreditation, visit: www.un.org\/en\/media\/accreditation\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Available for interviews:<\/strong>
\nMr. Lenni Montiel, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, UN DESA
\nMr. Pingfan Hong, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division, UN DESA
\nMs. Dawn Holland, Economic Affairs Officer, UN DESA
\nMr. Sebastian Vergara, Economic Affairs Officer, UN DESA
\nMr. Grigor Agabekian, Economic Affairs, UN DESA<\/p>\n

Media Contacts:<\/strong>
\nUN Department of Public Information
\nMs. Francyne Harrigan, T: +1 917 367 5414 | E: harriganf@un.org<\/a>,
\nMs. Sharon Birch, T: +1 212 963 0564 | E: birchs@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information, please visit website: www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment<\/a> or follow us on Twitter at @GlobalGoalsUN<\/a> and on Facebook at www.facebook.com\/globalgoalsUN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Economic activity in the world economy remains weak with little prospect for a turnaround in 2016, says an updated UN report to be released 12 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4,5270],"tags":[369,5201,5903,5278],"class_list":["post-17255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-growth","category-news","category-press-material","tag-economic-growth","tag-economics","tag-goal-8","tag-media-advisory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}