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UN DESA Policy Brief No. 143: Caregiving in an ageing world

UN DESA Policy Brief No. 143: Caregiving in an ageing world

Rethinking approaches to long-term care will benefit today?s older persons and those who care for them, but also future generations of older persons. Countries should consider a more equitable, person-centred approach to care, operating across governments, businesses, civil society, communities and households to address needs in the provision of both formal and informal care.
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 143: Caregiving in an ageing world
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 142: Old-age poverty has a woman?s face

UN DESA Policy Brief No. 142: Old-age poverty has a woman?s face

An agenda on gender equality aimed at reducing women?s poverty, including in old age, should promote women?s labour market participation and decent work, ease their care burden and improve women?s pension coverage as well as pension adequacy.
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 142: Old-age poverty has a woman?s face
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 141: A just green transition: concepts and practice so far

UN DESA Policy Brief No. 141: A just green transition: concepts and practice so far

A globally just transition requires international support for developing countries that takes into account their? realities, capacities, and priorities. Greening measures and strategies shouldn?t push people in other countries behind.
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 141: A just green transition: concepts and practice so far
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 140: A World of 8 Billion

UN DESA Policy Brief No. 140: A World of 8 Billion

Wealthy countries and the international community should support sustainable development in low-income and lower-middle-income countries by providing the necessary technical and financial assistance so that their economies can grow rapidly using technologies that minimise environmental harms.
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 140: A World of 8 Billion
World Economic Situation and Prospects: November 2022 Briefing, No. 166

World Economic Situation and Prospects: November 2022 Briefing, No. 166

As the world falls further behind from its goal of ending hunger (SDG 2), countries must act to protect open and stable global food trading systems and urgently provide targeted humanitarian action to save lives and livelihoods.
World Economic Situation and Prospects: November 2022 Briefing, No. 166
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Promise of a Transformative Agenda, by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (CDP Policy Review No. 11)

This article connects the work that underpinned the Agenda?s emergence with the continuing challenges of its implementation as a process of norm making and norm evolution
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UN DESA Policy Brief No. 139: Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Climate Action through Risk-informed Governance

UN DESA Policy Brief No. 139: Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Climate Action through Risk-informed Governance

Ensuring risk-informed governance for climate action requires citizen-centric approach through the whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches including the leverage of government innovation and frontier technologies for DRR and resilience.
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 139: Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Climate Action through Risk-informed Governance
World Economic Situation and Prospects: October 2022 Briefing, No. 165

World Economic Situation and Prospects: October 2022 Briefing, No. 165

A stronger U.S. dollar will likely exacerbate inflationary pressures, worsen fiscal and external balances and hinder recovery in developing countries, undermining their prospects for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
World Economic Situation and Prospects: October 2022 Briefing, No. 165
2022 Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly

2022 Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly

Towards a New International Economic Order (A/77/214)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español
World Economic Situation and Prospects: September 2022 Briefing, No. 164

World Economic Situation and Prospects: September 2022 Briefing, No. 164

Amid health, climate, food security and geopolitical crises, strengthened and effective multilateral cooperation will remain critical to stimulate growth, support the most vulnerable and put the world economy on track towards sustainable development.
World Economic Situation and Prospects: September 2022 Briefing, No. 164