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Role of Foreign Direct Investment in the Gas Industry

Economies in Transition and Southern Mediterranean Countries

Series: ECE Gas Centre Series
( Print: July 1998 )

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is recognized as an appropriate driving force for economic growth. To attract investment, countries have to meet set requirements. These requirements also apply to the...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is recognized as an appropriate driving force for economic growth. To attract investment, countries have to meet set requirements. These requirements also apply to the...


Reform and Restructuring of the Gas Industry in Economies in Transition

Series: ECE Gas Centre Series
( Print: October 1998 )

This collection of papers and proceedings submitted by leading figures in the gas industry in Europe, North America and the Commonwealth of Independent States, deals with key issues and gives a unique...

This collection of papers and proceedings submitted by leading figures in the gas industry in Europe, North America and the Commonwealth of Independent States, deals with key issues and gives a unique...


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World Youth Report

Youth Civic Engagement

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: July 2016, PDF: December 2015 )

The World Youth Report is the flagship publication on youth issues of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. This 2015 edition intends to provide fresh...

The World Youth Report is the flagship publication on youth issues of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. This 2015 edition intends to provide fresh...


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World Youth Report

Youth and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: January 2019, PDF: January 2019 )

This biennial flagship report examines and provides insights into the role of young people in sustainable development in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and related frameworks...

This biennial flagship report examines and provides insights into the role of young people in sustainable development in the context of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and related frameworks...


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World Youth Report 2003

The Global Situation of Young People

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: May 2004, PDF: October 2006 )

World Youth Report 2003 provides an overview of the global situation of young people. It explores the hope, ambition and potential that exist in our youth today, while at the same time examining the...

World Youth Report 2003 provides an overview of the global situation of young people. It explores the hope, ambition and potential that exist in our youth today, while at the same time examining the...


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World Youth Report 2020

Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: August 2020, PDF: August 2020 )

This report highlights how youth social entrepreneurship can support young people's employment and development while helping to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs. It presents social...

This report highlights how youth social entrepreneurship can support young people's employment and development while helping to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs. It presents social...


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World Youth Report 2010

Youth and Climate Change

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: April 2011, PDF: February 2011 )

This report is intended to highlight the important role young people play in addressing climate change, and to offer suggestions on how young people might be more effectively integrated as individuals...

This report is intended to highlight the important role young people play in addressing climate change, and to offer suggestions on how young people might be more effectively integrated as individuals...


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World Youth Report 2005

Young People Today, and in 2015

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: October 2005, PDF: October 2006 )

More than 500 million youths worldwide live on less than $2 a day, 113 million are not in school, 88 million are unemployed and 10 million have HIV/AIDS, all significant challenges for reaching the...

More than 500 million youths worldwide live on less than $2 a day, 113 million are not in school, 88 million are unemployed and 10 million have HIV/AIDS, all significant challenges for reaching the...


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World Youth Report 2011

Youth Employment - Youth Perspectives on the Pursuit of Decent Work in Changing Times

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: June 2013, PDF: December 2011 )

This is a biennially recurring publication of the United Nations. This year, it is largely based on an e-discussion with young people and representatives of youth-led organizations on the transition...

This is a biennially recurring publication of the United Nations. This year, it is largely based on an e-discussion with young people and representatives of youth-led organizations on the transition...


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World Youth Report 2007

Young People's Transition to Adulthood - Progress and Challenges

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: February 2008, PDF: January 2008 )

Today’s young people are the best educated generation of youth in history. However, the World Youth Report 2007 argues that for many young people, the transition to adulthood is slowed down by poverty...

Today’s young people are the best educated generation of youth in history. However, the World Youth Report 2007 argues that for many young people, the transition to adulthood is slowed down by poverty...


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World Youth Report 2013

Youth and Migration

Series: World Youth Report
( Print: May 2014, PDF: December 2013 )

The World Youth Report 2013 focuses on the topic of youth and migration. It delivers a synopsis of the basic facts on youth migration and development discussing who is migrating, where they are coming...

The World Youth Report 2013 focuses on the topic of youth and migration. It delivers a synopsis of the basic facts on youth migration and development discussing who is migrating, where they are coming...


Reform and Restructuring of the Gas Industry in Economies in Transition 1999

Series: ECE Gas Centre Series
( Print: June 2000 )

This publication reviews and discusses future developments of energy/gas prices and competition and gas supply prospects. It focuses on central and eastern European countries (CEEs) gas markets and...

This publication reviews and discusses future developments of energy/gas prices and competition and gas supply prospects. It focuses on central and eastern European countries (CEEs) gas markets and...


Do Environmental Imperatives Present Novel Problems and Opportunities for the International Transfer...

Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: November 1995 )

This publication explores the impact of recent changes in the world economy on progress in the transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies in the post-UNCED setting and endeavours...

This publication explores the impact of recent changes in the world economy on progress in the transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies in the post-UNCED setting and endeavours...


Science and Technology in the New Global Environment

Implications for Developing Countries

Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: August 1996 )

A new publication in this vital and timely series. It deals concisely with the implications of technological and regulatory trends for the developing world, explicitly setting forth a number of main...

A new publication in this vital and timely series. It deals concisely with the implications of technological and regulatory trends for the developing world, explicitly setting forth a number of main...


New Technologies and Technological Capability-Building at the Enterprise Level

Some Policy Implications

Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: August 1996 )

An examination of the opportunities created in the context of a changing global environment. By analyzing the specific features of the process of TCB in new technologies, policy implications and...

An examination of the opportunities created in the context of a changing global environment. By analyzing the specific features of the process of TCB in new technologies, policy implications and...


Gas Rates Fundamentals and Practices

Series: ECE Gas Centre Series
( Print: October 1995 )

Natural gas in the European region represents the world's largest market for gas. Recognizing the importance of the gas sector to the region and the prospect that demand for gas will increase...

Natural gas in the European region represents the world's largest market for gas. Recognizing the importance of the gas sector to the region and the prospect that demand for gas will increase...


Gas Distribution Rate Design Manual

Series: ECE Gas Centre Series
( Print: October 1996 )

The Rate Design Manual focuses on the US experience in developing and implementing regulatory policies and measures designed to cover the various factors in designing gas rates by local distribution...

The Rate Design Manual focuses on the US experience in developing and implementing regulatory policies and measures designed to cover the various factors in designing gas rates by local distribution...


Gas Industry in the Market Economies on the European Continent

Series: ECE Gas Centre Series
( Print: March 1996 )

Gas markets have and will continue to change in the East and the West. This publication will be of help to all countries, especially those in transition, who have to choose the market and industry...

Gas markets have and will continue to change in the East and the West. This publication will be of help to all countries, especially those in transition, who have to choose the market and industry...


Promoting the Transfer and Use of Environmentally Sound Technology

A Review of Policies

Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: March 1997 )

The spectrum of the debate on environmentally sound technologies is as lively as the broader debate on environment and development. Amidst the spectrum is the realism that a world where three fourths...

The spectrum of the debate on environmentally sound technologies is as lively as the broader debate on environment and development. Amidst the spectrum is the realism that a world where three fourths...


Gas Contracting Principles and Practices

Series: ECE Gas Centre Series
( Print: August 1996 )

In this new volume of the series all the papers and proceedings of the 1995 Seminar are presented for all to absorb in a clear and relevant format.

In this new volume of the series all the papers and proceedings of the 1995 Seminar are presented for all to absorb in a clear and relevant format.