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11 October 2016

Expert Group Meeting: The contribution of the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) to development, theory and practice

On the 13th and 14th of October 2016, the Development Strategy and Policy Analysis (DSP) Unit will hold the First Expert Group Meeting to support the preparation of the 70 year anniversary issue of the World Economic and Social Survey 2017 (WESS 2017) on ?The contribution of the World Economic and Social Survey to development, theory and practice?. The meeting will bring together the lead authors of the chapters in WESS 2017, members of the UN DESA Team, experts in the selected subject matter and colleagues from UN member organizations. The objective of the meeting is to review the draft chapters for WESS 2017 with the expectation of receiving comments and suggestions for the preparation of… Expert Group Meeting: The contribution of the World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) to development, theory and practice

03 October 2016

World Economic and Social Survey 2016: Climate Change Resilience: An Opportunity for Reducing Inequalities

The World Economic and Social Survey 2016 contributes to the debate on the implementation challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In addressing the specific challenge of building resilience to climate change, the Survey focuses attention on the population groups and communities that are disproportionately affected by climate hazards. It argues that, in the absence of transformative policies which coherently address the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development, building climate resilience will remain elusive and poverty and inequalities will worsen. To the extent that the differential impact of climate hazards on people and communities is determined… World Economic and Social Survey 2016: Climate Change Resilience: An Opportunity for Reducing Inequalities

19 August 2016

Toward the full realization of an inclusive and accessible United Nations for persons with disabilities - 2016 Report

27 July 2016

Report of the Secretary-General on Realization of internationally agreed development goals for persons with disabilities and progress made - 2016 Report

24 July 2016

World Economic and Social Survey 2016 Overview: Climate Change Resilience: An opportunity for reducing inequalities

The World Economic and Social Survey 2016 contributes to the debate on the implementation challenges of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In addressing the specific challenge of building resilience to climate change, the Survey focuses attention on the population groups and communities that are disproportionately affected by climate hazards. It argues that, in the absence of transformative policies which coherently address the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development, building climate resilience will remain elusive and poverty and inequalities will worsen. To the extent that the differential impact of climate hazards on people and communities is determined… World Economic and Social Survey 2016 Overview: Climate Change Resilience: An opportunity for reducing inequalities

11 July 2016

Clusters of Least Developed Countries, their evolution between 1993 and 2013, and policies to expand their productive capacity, by Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Antonio Scognamillo (CDP Background Paper No. 33)

The conventional approach to least developed country (LDC) graduation has considered these countries as an undifferentiated group whose problems could be solved by means of similar measures focusing on domestic and international liberalisation, preferential aid allocations, and the promotion of their exports by means of trade preferences and free market access. This paper tries to go beyond this analytical and policy tradition and attempts to identify different LDC clusters in which underdevelopment is caused by specific economic and social conditions, and for which the solution depends not only on traditional support measures, but also on the implementation of differentiated, country-… Download

30 June 2016

Applying the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework to the Least Developed Countries: The Case of Uganda, by Justin Yifu Lin and Jiajun Xu (CDP Background Paper No. 32)

This paper aims to draw insights from New Structural Economics by applying its practical policy tool - the Growth Identification and Facilitation Framework (GIFF) - to least developed countries (LDCs) with a special focus on the case of Uganda. The GIFF offers practical development paths for enabling developing countries to follow comparative advantage in its industrial development and to tap into the potential of advantages of backwardness in industrial upgrading in an effort to achieve sustained and dynamic growth. After a brief introduction of the GIFF, we present an overview of Uganda's recent economic and social performance and analyse Uganda's factor endowments, i.e., land (or… Download

21 June 2016

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… Download

10 May 2016

2016 Monitoring Reports

Equatorial Guinea Samoa Samoa’s smooth transition strategy report Vanuatu 2016 Monitoring Reports

06 May 2016

2016 CDP report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions

Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2016/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español CDP excerpts on the report by theme
Total official support for sustainable development
Expanding productive capacity for achieving the sustainable development goals
Monitoring the development progress of countries that are graduating and have graduated from the list of least developed countries ECOSOC resolution (E/RES/2016/21) on the Report of the Committee for Development Policy
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español ECOSOC resolution (E/RES/2016/15) on the Report of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade… 2016 CDP report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions