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No. 3: Insufficient attention to inequalities and participatory governance

No. 3 - Insufficient attention to inequalities and participatory governance

Marc Fleurbaey argues that our main hope to get back to a track of progress on the SDGs is to enhance participatory mechanisms at all levels and in private as well as in public organizations.
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World Economic Situation And Prospects: August 2019 Briefing, No. 129

World Economic Situation And Prospects: August 2019 Briefing, No. 129

Carbon pricing is a vital policy tool to address the unfolding climate crisis
Amid rising global temperatures, drought forces Australia to import wheat for the first time in a decade
Debt-for-climate swaps are an innovative?development financing instrument
World Economic Situation And Prospects: August 2019 Briefing, No. 129
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Voluntary National Reviews Reports - What do they (not) tell us?, by the CDP subgroup on VNRs (CDP Background Paper No. 49)

Voluntary national reviews (VNRs) are an important innovation as a United Nations process for follow up to the adoption of development agendas. The paper anal
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World Economic Situation And Prospects: July 2019 Briefing, No. 128

World Economic Situation And Prospects: July 2019 Briefing, No. 128

ODA flows must increase to support SDG-related investment Regional integration in Africa and Asia is crucial for sustainable development China?s direct investment in Latin America slows
World Economic Situation And Prospects: July 2019 Briefing, No. 128
World Economic Situation And Prospects: June 2019 Briefing, No. 127

World Economic Situation And Prospects: June 2019 Briefing, No. 127

Trade tensions and policy uncertainty are damaging global growth prospects
Several countries continue to experience setbacks in their fight against poverty
Carbon pricing a key element in combating climate change
World Economic Situation And Prospects: June 2019 Briefing, No. 127
World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2019

World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2019

Global growth outlook has weakened, amid unresolved trade tensions and elevated international policy uncertainty, according to the World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2019. Across both developed and developing countries, growth projections for 2019 have been downgraded.?
World Economic Situation and Prospects as of mid-2019
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No. 2 - People being pushed behind

Diane Elson argues that policies should be subject to the question: is this policy likely push some one behind, and if so, will this loss be mitigated or must it be prevented from happening in the first place?
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Frontier Technology Quarterly: Playing with genes: The good, the bad and the ugly

Frontier Technology Quarterly: Playing with genes: The good, the bad and the ugly

Genetic technologies?the ability to manipulate and transform the properties of cells, seeds, microbes, insects, plants, animals and even humans?are pushing the frontiers of science and offers us new hope for disease control and cure. Genetic technologies are changing the way we produce food, improving crop yield and preventing catastrophic losses from droughts, floods and pests.
Frontier Technology Quarterly: Playing with genes: The good, the bad and the ugly
No. 1: Inequality and how incomes are generated

No. 1: Inequality and how incomes are generated

Experience has shown that it is not possible to empower people and to reduce household income inequality without addressing how incomes are generated in the production process and how this affects the so-called factor income inequality (the distribution of national income between rents from land, capital income and labour income).
No. 1: Inequality and how incomes are generated
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No. 1 - Inequality and how incomes are generated

Rolph van der Hoeven discusses inequality and how incomes are generated.
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