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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.
On 26 October in Managua, at the request of the President of Nicaragua's Central Bank, DPAD presented the integrated macro-micro modelling framework to the entire Economic Division of the Central B
The global partnership for development, as crystallized in Millennium Development Goal 8, has played a crucial role in galvanizing international support for development.
"We hope to bring views from all corners of the world together because what we are striving for is an agenda that will take us to a shared, secure and sustainable global development for all, ou
On 12 February 2014, Sanjay Reddy, Associate Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, made an inaugural presentation of a new database on material living standards within and a
In response to a request from the Office of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, DPAD staffmembers Marco V.
During the HLPF 2016, the Development Policy and Analysis Division/DESA organized an Event on “Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development Policies: A platform to address the economic, social and e
As part of an outreach training course developed by UN-DESA/DPAD and UNDP in collaboration with other partners, the Regional Workshop on “Modelling Tools to inform national Policies for Sustainable
Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), participated in the ECOSOC Integration Segment on May 1.