Welcome to the United NationsDPAD and the Government of Jordan jointly organized practical training on November 12-14 for fifteen government experts on the use of modelling tools needed to evaluate MDG financing strategies, ot
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Remittances—an important income source for millions of households—have become one of the largest forms of external financing for developing countries, with total inflows in 2023–2024 exceeding the combined value of net foreign direct investment inflows and official development assistance.
The World economic situation and prospects as of mid-2013 was launched today by ASG for Economic Development Shamshad Akhtar, DPAD Acting Director Pingfan Hong and Economic Affairs Officer Ingo Pit
The Development Strategy and Policy Analysis Unit of DPAD will host a side event on Sustainable Development Challenges during the 7th Session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Go
On 12 April, Marco V.
On 28th September 2016, the DPS unit organized a Development Policy Seminar on the topic of “The Internet of Things in transportation and its promise for Sustainable Development”.
On 24th January 2017, the DPAD/DSP unit organized a Development Policy Seminar on the topic of “Built to Connect - How buildings and infrastructure form the foundation for sustainable communities”.
Emissions from tourism and trade are growing faster than those from road transport, if current trends persist they could double or even triple by 2050.
At the invitation of Prof. Jin Sato of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Marcelo LaFleur, Economic Affairs Officer in the Development Strategy and Policy (DSP) Unit, gave a lecture to students on how the United Nations system is delivering on the 2030 Agenda.
Mr. Harris discussed frontier technologies in general, how these technologies are deeply interconnected and interdependent, as advances in one are likely to impact many others. He also discussed the challenges in harnessing the benefits of these technologies for all, while giving everyone the opportunity not only to cope with its side-effects, but to thrive. The online panel also discussed the imperative of bridging the technological divide through active national innovation systems.
In a briefing to Member States, the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2019 was p
The Development Research Branch (DRB) organized a seminar on emerging opportunities and challenges for data scientists in using big data. Prof. Xiao-Li Meng of Harvard University, founding editor-in-chief of Harvard Data Science Review, spoke about the trade-offs data scientists face in dealing with the expanding universe of data.