Beneficial ownership information: Supporting fair taxation and financial integrity
Domestic public finance is essential to financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), providing public goods and services, increasing equity, and helping manage macroeconomic stability. The Addis Ababa Action Agenda places domestic resource mobilization at the core of the actions that countries need to take to deliver sustainable development. Countries have been working to increase revenues so that they can invest in the SDGs, but tax avoidance, tax evasion and corruption are undermining countries? efforts. Illicit financial flow (IFF) is the term that covers these activities (see Figure 1) that cross…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 148: Beneficial ownership information: Supporting fair taxation and financial integrity
International migration can facilitate the achievement of many Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
International migration is an integral part of the development process in countries of origin, transit and destination. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes several targets related directly to international migration or migrants. The most explicit among them is target 10.7, which calls on countries to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies. Other migration-related targets in the 2030 Agenda include strengthening and…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 146: Why safe, orderly and regular migration matters for sustainable development
Old age disadvantage begins at birth
Much of the inequality between older persons has its roots in early life conditions. Without policies to prevent it, disadvantages reinforce one another through peoples? lives, leading to large disparities among older adults. A life course perspective on ageing is critical to improving people?s health and well-being throughout the life course into old age.
Disability as a marker of inequality at older ages
The onset and severity of disability ? affecting either physical or mental health ? profoundly impacts the lives of people and their families and incurs large economic and societal costs in terms of health care and caregiving needs.
Disability is a key…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 147: Old age inequality begins at birth: life course influences on late-life disability
Anchoring inflation expectations becomes even more crucial to fight inflation in 2023
The world economy faced a steep rise in the inflation rate in 2022, with rising inflation observed in both developed and developing economies. A series of global events triggered and aggravated the current global inflation surge. Recovering demand after the COVID-19 crisis against various supply constraints easily created upward pressures on prices. The war in Ukraine constrained supply and triggered higher commodity prices globally, particularly food and energy items. The appreciation of the US dollar vis-?-vis many currencies also contributed to the global inflation trend by raising the costs of imports…
World Economic Situation and Prospects: January 2023 Briefing, No. 168
In recent decades, all regions of the world have seen substantial progress in life expectancy at birth, which was estimated to be at 72.8 years in 2019 compared with 64.2 years three decades ago. As importantly, life expectancy has increased at all ages such that a person at age 65 in 2019 was likely to live 6.2 years longer than in the early 1950s (United Nations, 2022). But life expectancy differs significantly across countries and within them. Inequalities in health and in life expectancy across countries have received attention from the international community, which recognized that such inequalities are unfair and beyond an individual?s control. Assessing country-level inequality in…
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 145: On the importance of monitoring inequality in life expectancy
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