The Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2017/33, Supplement No. 13) on its 19th plenary session held from 20-24 March 2017 is now available in all six official languages.
In a special briefing on 21 March 2017, during the 19th Plenary Session of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP), Professors Tea Petrin, Dzodzi Rsikata, Keith Nurse and Rashid Hassan briefed delegates on lessons learned in building productive capacity in least developed countries (LDCs) – those who have graduated and those in the process of graduating.
The 2030 Agenda has set the of goal universal access to electricity by 2030. The challenge is significant. It involves reaching population with limited incomes, often living in sparsely populated areas, mostly in developing and least developed countries. Costs can tally. Taking into account local characteristics, this model finds the combination of technologies that can provide universal access to the population of every country at the lowest cost.
Professor Willi Semmler of The New School and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming was the keynote speaker at the Development Policy Seminar on “A Macroeconomic Framework for Climate Investment with Implications for Structural Change and Employment” held today in New York.
Join us on Tuesday, March 21, from 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm at UNHQ New York Conference Room 6 for a panel discussion on “Developing Productive Capacity for Sustainable Development: Lessons learned from Least Developed Countries”.
Members of the CDP will present the results of a detailed review of the experiences of 14 LDCs and highlight which factors and policies have been successful in moving countries towards graduation and sustainable development and how countries can sustain their development gains.
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) released an informational video on the ePing trade notification tool, launched in November 2016 by UN/DESA, in cooperation with the World Trade Organization and the International Trade Centre.
The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2017 (WESP), published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA), was launched in a press conference in New York on 17 January by Assistant-Secretary-General for Economic Development, Lenni Montiel, and Senior Economic Affairs Officer, Dawn Holland.
Nazrul Islam, Hiroshi Kawamura and Marcelo LaFleur, Economic Affairs Officers from the Development Strategy and Policy Analysis Unit of DPAD, presented the World Economic and Social Survey 2016 at the Climate Change and Global Justice event at The New School in New York.
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”. The seminar was presented by Ms. Gaya Branderhorst (Director, Data & Analytics at KPMG, New York), and it was chaired by Ms. Diana Alarcón (Chief, DESA DPAD/DSP unit).
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 Development and the 2030 Agenda” took place on 23-26 January in Istanbul. The objective of this workshop is to enhance understanding, among development practitioners, on how modelling tools can be used to unveil the interlinkages and tradeoffs across different policy areas for sustainable development.
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