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UN/DESA Policy Brief #98: Risk-informed finance

UN/DESA Policy Brief #98: Risk-informed finance

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the widespread and cascading effects of systemic risks on economies and societies in an increasingly complex and interrelated risk landscape. With more than 2 million lives lost at the time of writing, the spread of COVID-19 and its economic fallout are an urgent call for the global community to better prepare for and reduce the risk of catastrophic events. Disasters are often the result of decades of accumulation of risk. Risk that has not been sufficiently addressed, such as high debt and excess leverage, poverty and inequality, infrastructure that is not resilient, and climate change, will continue to derail financing and progress of the… UN/DESA Policy Brief #98: Risk-informed finance
UN/DESA Policy Brief #99: Why does corporate sustainability reporting matter to rebuilding better?

UN/DESA Policy Brief #99: Why does corporate sustainability reporting matter to rebuilding better?

The current business model does not properly account for the effects of private activity on environmental and social impacts (or externalities). Companies care about environmental and social issues when these issues affect profitability, though long-term environmental and social risks are often overlooked due to the short-term nature of capital markets. And companies have for too long easily ignored those social and environmental impacts that do not affect their bottom line. As a result, the current model consumes more natural resources and creates more waste than the planet can regenerate and absorb. It also creates large social inequalities. A new model of capitalism needs to reconcile… UN/DESA Policy Brief #99: Why does corporate sustainability reporting matter to rebuilding better?
UN/DESA Policy Brief #100: Effective blended finance in the era of COVID-19 recovery

UN/DESA Policy Brief #100: Effective blended finance in the era of COVID-19 recovery

The 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda recognizes the role that blended finance can play, while also acknowledging that it may not be suitable for all Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) investments. Indeed, blended finance, which uses official resources to mobilize commercial financing, has been looked to as a means to incentivize greater investment in the SDGs ? for many it was the means to go from ?billions to trillions? in financing sustainable development. Yet, while blended finance has grown rapidly since 2015, the total amount of private finance it has mobilized is still relatively small ? well below a trillion (see Figure 1). Most blended finance currently goes to middle- income… UN/DESA Policy Brief #100: Effective blended finance in the era of COVID-19 recovery
World Economic Situation And Prospects: April 2021 Briefing, No. 148

World Economic Situation And Prospects: April 2021 Briefing, No. 148

Adding fuel to the fire? Inequality and the spread of COVID-19 The World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a ?pandemic? one year ago. Since then, the virus has spread like wildfire, upending social and economic life and causing an enormous?and still rising?human toll. As of 19 March 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic had infected more than 122 million people and killed about 2.7 million worldwide. Furthermore, while the vaccination campaigns gain pace globally?more than 400 million single doses have already been administered?the prospects to bring the pandemic to an end and achieve herd immunity are still uncertain. Virus mutations, pandemic fatigue and the uneven global… World Economic Situation And Prospects: April 2021 Briefing, No. 148
UN/DESA Policy Brief #96: COVID-19: How the data and statistical community stepped up to the new challenges

UN/DESA Policy Brief #96: COVID-19: How the data and statistical community stepped up to the new challenges

The pandemic caused a serious disruption to statistical operations across the world In the current global health crisis, timely and reliable disaggregated data and statistics are critically needed to understand, manage and mitigate the human, social and economic losses affecting billions of people. But the disruptions to regular data production operations created by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdowns, combined with an unprecedented uptick in the demand for information to monitor the spread of the virus and mitigate its impacts, have created unprecedented challenges for the data and statistical community at the global, regional and global levels. Moreover, the pandemic struck at… UN/DESA Policy Brief #96: COVID-19: How the data and statistical community stepped up to the new challenges

2021 CDP Report, ECOSOC and GA Resolutions

Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2021/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español CDP excerpts on the report by theme Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development: building an inclusive and effective path for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda in the context of the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development The impact of COVID-19 on the LDC category The 2021 triennial review of the list of LDCs Monitoring of countries that are graduating and have graduated from the list of least developed countries Improved assistance for…
UN/DESA Policy Brief #94: A changing world of work: implications for the social contract

UN/DESA Policy Brief #94: A changing world of work: implications for the social contract

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures needed to contain its spread have had a devastating impact on the world of work. According to ILO?s latest estimates, the crisis resulted in an unprecedented global loss of 8.8 per cent of working hours, equivalent to 255 million full-time jobs, in 2020 (ILO, 2021). While some workers joined the ranks of the unemployed and are still seeking work, many more have left the labour force altogether. Women, youth and workers in low-skilled jobs, often in the informal economy, have been hit harder than other groups. The longer the distress in labour markets persists, the more the affected workers, their families and their communities run the risk of being… UN/DESA Policy Brief #94: A changing world of work: implications for the social contract
UN/DESA Policy Brief #95: What triggers economic insecurity and who is most at risk?

UN/DESA Policy Brief #95: What triggers economic insecurity and who is most at risk?

Introduction With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have found themselves and their families on shaky economic ground. There are significant inequalities in the degree to which different people have faced exposure, vulnerabilities and the capacity to respond to COVID-19- related shocks, due in part to substantial differences in their experience of economic risk. Such preexisting inequalities have highlighted the extent to which large-scale crises have an uneven impact on the economic security of households and individuals. Inequalities in education, health and employment result in some groups being more economically insecure than others. Evidence from the United States and Europe,… UN/DESA Policy Brief #95: What triggers economic insecurity and who is most at risk?
UN/DESA Policy Brief #93: Social policy and social protection measures to build Africa better post-COVID-19

UN/DESA Policy Brief #93: Social policy and social protection measures to build Africa better post-COVID-19

Introduction As a region, Africa has seen remarkable progress in socio-economic development in the past two decades. It still experiences, however, high levels of poverty and inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition, high maternal and child mortality, high levels of informal employment, conflicts and the impacts of climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic and these challenges urgently call for effective and efficient measures, including social protection, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, including eradicating poverty, and reducing inequality and vulnerability. This policy brief reviews the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa and the continent?s social… UN/DESA Policy Brief #93: Social policy and social protection measures to build Africa better post-COVID-19
2021 Monitoring Reports

2021 Monitoring Reports

Angola Letter from the Government of Angola to the Chair of the CDP, 29 December 2020 Bhutan Report on the preparation of Bhutan's Smooth Transition Strategy from the Least Developed Countries category Equatorial Guinea Samoa São Tomé and Príncipe Solomon Islands Vanuatu