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16 June 2010

Views and perspectives on UN support for SIDS, by Philippe Hein (CDP Background Paper No. 10)

The present paper reviews the existing support by the United Nations system to the small island developing States (SIDS). While acknowledging great diversity among SIDS, the paper notes that these countries on average have maintained good levels of socio-economic indicators despite their fundamental development challenges. It also highlights a number of problems in adequately assessing United Nations support for SIDS and makes suggestions for their solution.

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16 June 2006

Policy responses to economic vulnerability, by Willene Johnson (CDP Background Paper No. 9)

The present paper reviews policy efforts to advance growth and development in the least developed countries, in particular those efforts aimed at promoting well-being by reducing vulnerability to economic shocks. The paper draws on empirical research analysing the relationships between economic vulnerability, growth and policy. Given that domestic policy efforts are weakened by the shocks that characterize vulnerability, the international community has an important role to play in countries.

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16 May 2005

Reconstruction, development and sustainable peace: a unified programme for post-conflict countries, by Milivoje Panic (CDP Background Paper No. 8)

The aim of the report is to review the role of economic welfare in conflict prevention, including the strategies required to ensure sustainable peace in post-conflict countries. It differs in one important respect from most of the rapidly growing literature in this field. Instead of describing specific conflicts or policies to prevent them, it integrates some of the key economic, social and political factors into a general analysis, with an all-embracing strategy for post-conflict countries. The integrated approach is essential because a unified strategy offers the only hope of preventing future conflicts and civil wars.

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16 April 2005

An African perspective of the Millennium Development Goals: from skepticism to leadership and hope, by Kerfalla Yansane (CDP Background Paper No. 7)

The first part of the report reviews the status and trends in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in sub-Saharan Africa. The second part examines the obstacles and challenges to and opportunities for achieving the Goals. The third part discusses the instruments and policies that would facilitate achieving the MDGs in sub-Saharan Africa. The report is intended to provide an African perspective with regard to ownership and the domestic policy adjustments required to achieve the internationally agreed development goals. The purpose of the report is to elucidate the following two key issues related to the central question of ownership: (i) the extent to which African policy-makers…

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16 August 2004

Innovative approaches to domestic resource mobilization in selected LDCs, by Samuel Wangwe and Prosper Charle (CDP Background Paper No. 6)

This paper examines innovative approaches to domestic resource mobilization in selected Least Developed Countries. It covers various aspects of domestic resource mobilization with focus on the linkages to poverty reduction and growth. The areas addressed in this paper include: financial sector reform policies for growth and poverty reduction, Microfinancing, taxation for growth and poverty reduction, management of domestic debt, government spending targeted to crowd in private savings and investment (including public-private partnerships), and mobilization of private capita, including reversal of capital flight and more innovative and active participation in the international trade.

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16 July 2004

New approaches to debt relief and debt sustainability in LDCs, by Olav Bjerkholt (CDP Background Paper No. 5)

The aim of this paper is to summarize for discussion purposes arguments related to the debt crisis of poor developing countries and the attempts to cope with it through the HIPC Initiative.

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17 June 2004

Commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction: methodological issues in the evaluation of progress at the national and local levels, by Suchitra Punyaratabandhu (CDP Background Paper No. 4)

This report was prepared to evaluate progress towards good governance in the context of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The first part of the report reviews the concept of good governance as it has evolved over the past 15 years. Key defining properties of the concept of good governance are presented. The second part of the report examines current efforts to measure governance. As might be expected, different working definitions have led to the specification of different sets of indicators and indices of governance. The third part briefly reviews studies on governance that examine the relationship between good governance and other desired outcomes, such as poverty…

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16 May 2004

The poverty reduction challenge in LDCs, by Al Binger (CDP Background Paper No. 3)

CDP Background Paper No. 3
By Al Binger This is a report on resource mobilization for poverty eradication in the least?developed countries. The first part of the?report provides an overview of the current challenges faced by the LD

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31 March 2000

Development cooperation in the age of information technologies: the role of the United Nations and its agencies, by Ryokichi Hirono (CDP Background Paper No. 2)

This paper addresses the growing concern in the international community in recent years with the widening IT gap, or information divide so called, between urban and rural areas in developing economies and between the rich and the poor economies. The paper will first look at the current situation of management and utilisation of IT in developing economies and secondly at possible strategies and measures that the United Nations could take to assist developing countries to improve the management and utilisation of IT for efficient, effective, equitable and sustainable development.

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