{"id":29461,"date":"2017-07-11T18:25:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=29461"},"modified":"2017-07-11T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:57:23","slug":"launch-of-the-world-economic-and-social-survey-2017-reflecting-on-seventy-years-of-development-policy-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2017\/07\/launch-of-the-world-economic-and-social-survey-2017-reflecting-on-seventy-years-of-development-policy-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the World Economic and Social Survey 2017 \u201cReflecting on seventy years of development policy analysis\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">The World Economic and Social Survey will present a review of seven decades of the flagship publication\u2014the longest running publication of its kind\u2014and look at the historical lessons that are relevant for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. In addressing the multitude of pressing challenges that the world is facing today, the analysis presented in the Survey will offer useful guidance to the international development community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:\u00a0<\/strong>Lenni Montiel, UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean<br \/>\nDiana Alarc\u00f3n, Chief, Global Economic Monitoring Unit, Development Policy and Analysis Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs<\/p>\n<p><strong>What:\u00a0<\/strong>Press briefing on the World Economic and Social Survey 2017 \u201cReflecting on seventy years of development policy analysis\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Survey, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/wess.un.org\/\">https:\/\/wess.un.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Thursday 13 July, 11:00 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> S-237, UN Headquarters, New York or live through <a href=\"http:\/\/webtv.un.org\">http:\/\/webtv.un.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Available for interviews<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Diana Alarc\u00f3n, Chief, Global Economic Monitoring Unit, Development Policy and Analysis Division, DESA (English, Spanish)<br \/>\n\u2022 Nazrul Islam, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English)<br \/>\n\u2022 Hiroshi Kawamura, Senior Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Japanese)<br \/>\n\u2022 Marcelo LaFleur, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Spanish, Portuguese)<br \/>\n\u2022 Alex Julca, Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Spanish, French)<br \/>\n\u2022 Hoi Wai Cheng, Associate Economic Affairs Officer, DESA (English, Chinese)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media contacts<\/strong><br \/>\nUN Department of Public Information<br \/>\nDaniel Shepard, T: +1 (212) 963-9495 | E: shepard@un.org<br \/>\nKensuke Matsueda, T: +1 (917) 367-5418 | E: matsueda@un.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Briefing, Thursday, 13 July 2017 11:00 am EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":29489,"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":[4,5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29461","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\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}