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20 June 2002

Project LINK Meeting Document 2002

Bologna, 7 - 12 October 2002 Report on the Project LINK meeting Global Economic Outlook New York, 24-26 April 2002 Report on the Project LINK meeting Global Economic Outlook Project LINK Meeting Document 2002

05 May 2002

2002 CDP report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions

Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2002/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español ECOSOC resolution (E/RES/2002/36) on the Report of the Committee for Development Policy
English 2002 CDP report, ECOSOC and GA resolutions

10 February 2002

Capacity-building in Africa: Effective aid and human capital

CDP Policy Note
Sub-Saharan African countries continue to fall behind in terms of economic and social development. The persistence of conflict and post-conflict situations as well as the HIV/AIDS pandemic, calls for large additional transfers of resources. Aid needs to be better targeted towards countries with low incomes or special needs. It is only through the development of human and social capabilities that inequality and increased marginalization can be prevented. The creation of an African aid and development portal to provide a gateway to all development and aid projects in Africa, including those of non-governmental organizations, is proposed. Capacity-building in Africa: Effective aid and human capital

14 January 2002

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2002

A pervasive slowdown in the world economy, aggravated by the terrorist attacks in the United States of America, has led to the lowest growth of gross world product in a decade. Gross world production grew little more than 1 per cent in 2001 and the volume of world trade stagnated. More than a dozen economies, accounting for more than two thirds of world output and including the world's three largest economies, were falling into recession. For the year as a whole, growth in the developed countries was the lowest in a decade. The economies in transition exhibited greater resilience but their average growth also declined. The key concern of economic policymakers at the beginning of 2002 is to… World Economic Situation and Prospects 2002

08 January 2002

World Economic and Social Survey 2002

Part I. State of the World Economy In the second half of 2002, the world economy stands at a delicate juncture. After the weakest performance in a decade for the year as a whole, global economic recovery is under way. However, neither the strength, nor the breadth, nor the durability of the recovery is assured.Part one of World Economic and Social Survey 2002 investigates the causes of the pervasive slowdown in 2001, as well as the driving forces behind and threats to the recovery. Part II. Private-Public Interaction in Achieving Society's Goals Part two of World Economic and Social Survey 2002 examines selected aspects of the changing nature of the interaction between the public and… World Economic and Social Survey 2002