The workshop on "Strengthening Macroeconomic and Social Policy Coherence through Integrated Macro-Micro Modelling" will be held on 10 and 11 July 2012 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Jointly organized by DPAD, UNDP and the Government of Honduras, this workshop will provide training on the use of the modelling methodologies needed to evaluate the impact of external shocks on attaining the Millennium Development Goals.

The World Economic and Social Survey 2012was launched today in New York. The need for additional and more predictable financing has led to a search for new sources – not as a substitute for aid, but as a complement to it. A number of innovative initiatives have been launched during the past decade, mainly to fund global health programmes aimed at providing immunizations, AIDS and tuberculosis treatments to millions of people in the developing world.

The report: Realizing the Future We Want for Allcontains the main findings and recommendations of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 UN Development Agenda to the UN Secretary-General. This report is to serve as a first reference for the broader consultations on the post-2015 UN development agenda which are currently taking place.

A new policy brief on global health fundsargues that disease-specific vertical health funds should be consolidated into a single global health fund. While vertical funds have been purpose effective, disease-specific interventions have often been difficult to align with national health programmes, particularly in low-income countries with weak health systems.

A training workshop on "Strengthening Macroeconomic and Social Policy Coherence through Integrated Macro-Micro Modelling" was conducted by DPAD on 28 May – 1 June 2012 in San-Jose, Costa Rica.

Climate Protection and Development
edited by Rob Vos, Richard Kozul-Wright
and Frank Ackerman

The Highlights of the Global Economic Outlook June 2012

• Developed countries struggle to overcome vicious cycle
• Growth in developing countries moderating
• Euro area crisis poses biggest downside risk

The World economic situation and prospects as of mid-2012 was launched today in New York by Assistant Secretary-General Jomo Kwame Sundaram and DPAD Director Rob Vos. The report notes that the global economic situation is challenging, with heightened risks of a severe downturn. Global growth will likely remain tepid for the rest of the year as most regions are projected to expand at a below-potential pace.

On 4 April 2012 the Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Francis Stewart and CDP member Sakiko Fukuda-Parr participated as panelists at a briefing on the “Post 2015 UN Development Framework” convened by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

On 28 June 2011 the Secretary of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) participated as panelist of the International Dialogue on Beyond Istanbul: Challenges after the UN LDC IV and Trade Preferences for LDCs, jointly organised by the Centre for Policy Dialog, the OECD Development Centre and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in Geneva, Switzerland.