In its report Realizing the Future We Want for All, the UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda lays out its main findings and recommendations for a development agenda beyond 2015. It calls for an integrated policy approach to ensure inclusive economic development, social progress and environmental sustainability and a development agenda that responds to the aspirations of all people for a world free of want and fear. The report will serve as a reference for further broader and inclusive consultations on the post-2015 development agenda.
The present report outlines a bold vision for transformative change towards inclusive, people-centered, and sustainable development and…
Report of the UN System Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
November 2013
Summary:
Global?manufacturing?production?has improved
Economic?recovery?is?strengthening?in?developed?economies,?although?slowly
Public?fiscal?stimulus?programmes?have?been?a?determinant?factor?in?economic?growth?in?many?developing?countries
Global industrial production accelerated by an annualized rate of 4 per cent?in the third quarter of 2013, in line with an ongoing positive trend in industrial production and trade. This is the fastest pace in about two and a?half years, excluding the exceptional circumstances that followed the flooding?in Thailand and Japan?s nuclear disaster in 2011. Industrial production picked?up in many countries, but the strongest acceleration in…
Monthly Briefing on the World Economic Situation and Prospects, No. 60
The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policymaking worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book argues that new policy approaches are needed to address such devastating global development challenges and to avoid the potentially catastrophic consequences to livelihoods worldwide that are likely to result from present approaches.
The contributors to the book are independent development experts brought together to identify a development strategy capable of promoting a broad-based economic recovery and at the same time…
Alternative Development Strategies for the Post-2015 Era
More than five years after the global financial crisis erupted, the world economy has not fully recovered. Most developed economies are still toiling up a bumpy path. A number of emerging economies, which have already experienced a notable slowdown in the past two years, are facing more headwinds in the international economic environment. Meanwhile, the least developed countries have seen a decline in international official development aid. Read the full report of the LINK Global Economic Outlook 2014-2015.
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Global Economic Outlook 2014
October 2013
Summary:
US Fed delays the tapering of the QE programme, providing a temporary relief for emerging markets
Chinese economy strengthens
Current-account deficits widen in several emerging economies
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Contrary to expectations, the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) announced no changes in its monetary policy stance at the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on 17-18 September, maintaining the federal funds rate near zero and keeping the size of its monthly purchases of?long-term assets at $85 billion. Three major factors may explain why the Fed?decided to delay tapering the purchase of assets. First, recent data did not?confirm a sufficiently strong economic…
Monthly Briefing on the World Economic Situation and Prospects, No. 59
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