The Global Economic Monitoring (GEM) Unit of the Development Policy and Analysis Division held a Brown Bag lunch discussion today to share the major findings and policy recommendations presented in the recently publishedWorld Economic Situation and Prospects 2013. The panel was led by Pingfan Hong, Chief of GEM unit, and included Economic Affairs Officers Grigor Agabekian, Clive Altshuler, Hung-yi Li, Ingo Pitterle and John Winkel. Ms. Shari Spiegel, Chief of the Development Finance and External Debt Unit of the Financing for Development Office, contributed to the discussion on international finance for development.
This Policy Note compiles perspectives from the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) and its members on different dimensions of a globally just transition to low-carbon and environmentally sustainable economies. It includes the central messages of…