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Participatory Development and Governance: Africa’s Special Needs

CDP Policy Note Africa needs to take control over its own development strategy through a participatory and coordinated approach that involves a more effective mobilization and use of domestic financial and non-financial resources, the development of innovative and dynamic partnerships, and improved governance at both the national and multilateral levels. Better governance requires enhanced transparency, sound management of resources and a stable economic and regulatory environment.Recommendations on how to enhance the effectiveness of the UN system and multilateral institutions to support participatory development in Africa are discussed. These include the need to address…

pages used in the preparation of the World Economic and Social Survey 2006

2006 Developing and Transition Economies in the Late 20th Century: Diverging Growth Rates, Economic Structures,
and Sources of Demand Codrina Rada and Lance Taylor Download Paper Governance, Economic Growth and Development
since the 1960s Mushtaq H. Khan Download Paper Real Income Stagnation of Countries,1960-2001 Sanjay G. Reddy and Camelia Minoiu Download Paper Turning Swords to Ploughshares & Little Acorns to Tall Trees: the Conflict-Growth Nexus & the Poverty of Nations S, Mansoob Murshed Download Paper…

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2007 Population Aging, Wealth, and Economic Growth: Demographic Dividends and Public Policy Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason Download Paper Projection of health care expenditure by disease:
a case study from Australia Theo Vos, John Goss, Stephen Begg and Nicholas Mann Download Paper Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean Leonardo Gasparini, Javier Alejo, Francisco Haimovich, Sergio Olivieri
and Leopoldo Tornarolli Download Paper The Implications of Aging for the Structure and Stability
of Financial Markets…

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2008 Assessing the success of microinsurance programmes in meeting the insurance needs of the poor Paul Mosley Download Paper Financial Instability and Countercyclical Policy Yilmaz Aky

pages used in the preparation of the World Economic and Social Survey 2009

2009 Adapting to climate change in developing countries: institutional and policy responses for urbanizing societies E. Lisa F. Schipper Download Paper Adaptation to Climate Change:
Re-examining climate and development risks Shiv Someshwar Download Paper Climate change financing: Developing countries' options and challenges for mitigation and adaptation Fernando Prada Download Paper Regional Distribution of the Costs and benefits of Climate Change: Adaptation and Mitigation David Evans and Chris Hope Download Paper…

pages used in the preparation of the World Economic and Social Survey 2010

2010 Development in an interdependent world:
old issues, new directions? John Toye Download Paper Economic integration, inequality and growth: Theory and comparative assessment Giovanni Andrea Cornia Download Paper Energy Intensity, Greenhouse Gas, and Global Warming Lance Taylor Download Paper From Washington Consensus to Inclusive Growth:
The Continuing Relevance of Pro-Poor Policy Alternatives Alfredo Saad Filho Download Paper International Tax Cooperation and International…

United Nations Global Policy Model

This section contains technical documents which describe the modelling and technical work of the division. This includes global and macroeconomic models like: the Global Forecasting Framework (GFF), used for globally consistent short-term projections at country level; the Global Policy Model (GPM), used for policy analysis and mid- to long-term economic scenarios at regional level; country-specific, dynamic-recursive CGE models, used for the evaluation of socio- economic developments and achievement of Millenium Development Goals under alternative policy scenarios. and empirical frameworks for the evaluation of: trade shocks and economic vulnerability, which estimates…

The concept of structural economic vulnerability and its relevance for the identification of the least developed countries and other purposes: nature, measurement and evolution

CDP Background Paper No. 12 By Patrick Guillaumont Structural economic vulnerability is a major obstacle for the development of LDCs. The paper discusses the conceptual, methodological and empirical issues related to the economic vulnerability index (EVI) developed and used by the Committee for Development Policy (CDP) in the identification of LDCs. It also addresses the relation between physical and economic vulnerability to climate change as well as the role of the EVI in allocating official development aid and as tool for development research.

pages used in the preparation of the World Economic and Social Survey 2011

2011 Agricultural innovation for food security and environmental sustainability in the context of the recent economic crisis: Why a gender perspective? Diana Alarc

pages used in the preparation of the World Economic and Social Survey 2012

2012 Absorbing Innovative Financial Flows: Looking at Asia Rehman Sobhan Download Paper Adopting a Currency Transaction Tax When Avoidance is a Possibility: Which Currencies Would Take the Lead and What Rate Could they Charge? David Stubbs Download Paper Aid Securitization: Beyond IFFIm Suhas Ketkar Download Paper Can remittances support development finance
in developing countries? Alex Julca Download Paper Global Health Initiatives and Aid Effectiveness
in the Health Sector…