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Project LINK Meeting Document 2016

Project LINK Meeting Document 2016

New York, 19?21 October Report on the Project LINK Meeting Global Economic Outlook, October
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Productive Capacity and Trade in the Solomon Islands, by Daniel Gay (CDP Background Paper No. 31)

Economic growth, environmental sustainability and human development in the Solomon Islands have lagged much of the Pacific region since independence in 1978. Trade contributes insufficiently to development, partly because of the dominance of the logging industry but also due to the lack of emphasis on building productive capacities with a view to economic transformation toward higher productivity activities. Targeted soft industrial policies may help address these shortcomings, in the form of sectoral prioritisation; linkages policies; joint government-donor support to build appropriate infrastructure; and the development of human resources in specific areas. Government institutional…
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World Economic Situation And Prospects: June 2016 Briefing, No. 91

World Economic Situation And Prospects: June 2016 Briefing, No. 91

World gross product projected to expand by just 2.4 per cent in 2016
Forthcoming referendum on EU membership has increased financial market volatility in the United Kingdom
Ongoing fiscal adjustment in Africa, the CIS, Latin America and Western Asia continues to constrain prospects
World Economic Situation And Prospects: June 2016 Briefing, No. 91
Statement by Prof Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Statement by Prof Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

Statement by Prof Sakiko Fukuda-Parr at Coordination and Management Meeting of the 2016 session of the ECOSOC, 1 June 2016
Statement by Prof Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
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Presentation of the 2016 CDP Report to ECOSOC

Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), introduced the Committee's Report on it's 18th Session to the ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meeting (CMM) held on 1 June 2016. The CDP?s deliberations on LDC
Presentation of the 2016 CDP Report to ECOSOC
Improving knowledge, implementation and effectiveness for smooth transition from the LDC category

Improving knowledge, implementation and effectiveness for smooth transition from the LDC category

On 27 May 2016 the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP) Secretariat and the Fondation pour les ?tudes et Recherches sur le D?veloppement International (Ferdi) will organize a side event on least developed country (LDC) support measures during th
Improving knowledge, implementation and effectiveness for smooth transition from the LDC category
World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2016

World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2016

Weak global growth continues to linger, posing a challenge to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. World gross product is projected to expand by just 2.4 per cent in 2016, the same weak rate as in 2015.
World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2016
2016 Monitoring Reports

2016 Monitoring Reports

Equatorial Guinea
2016 Monitoring Reports
World Economic Situation And Prospects: May 2016 Briefing, No. 90

World Economic Situation And Prospects: May 2016 Briefing, No. 90

Argentina re-enters international capital markets after 15 years
Deflationary trends remain a concern in euro area and Japan
GDP growth in China in line with government target, but United States and Republic of Korea fall short of expectations
World Economic Situation And Prospects: May 2016 Briefing, No. 90

2016 CDP report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions

Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2016/33, Supplement No. 13)