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This is the first publication in a new UNIDO series devoted to the various dimensions of industrial development. This series is intended to build on development policy experience and to advance the...

The Year in Review features the activities of the UN Peacekeeping Missions in 2005, highlighting the successes and challenges that emerge throughout the year towards maintaining peace and security...

The Secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has been publishing biennial reviews on iron and steel scrap since 1983. The present statistical update focuses on the significance...

This report looks at how technology and innovation achieves inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID). Its main finding is that ISID is feasible and technology can simultaneously serve...

The Industrial Development Report 2013 examines the role of structural change and employment and explores the underlying drivers of structural change in manufacturing. While manufacturing employment...

Too often, demand is not condidered when discussing industrial development. But the fact that manufacturing consumption is the most visible result of industrial development, and one of its most...

The Year in Review features the activities of the UN Peacekeeping Missions in 2004, highlighting the successes and challenges that emerge throughout the year towards maintaining peace and security...

In a world increasingly driven by innovation, framework conditions that are a prerequisite of economic catch-up have been transformed so as to encompass the various dimensions of innovative...

The global economy cannot fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic unless internationally coordinated actions are taken, and the industrial sector must be central to these efforts. The COVID-19 crisis...

The Industrial Development Report is intended to build on development policy experience and contribute to a refinement of the international development agenda. The Report pays special attention to...

The report discusses the opportunities and constraints faced by two groups of countries: the countries of the bottom billion trying to break into global markets for manufactured goods, and the middle...

The Year in Review features the activities of the UN Peacekeeping Missions in 2006, highlighting the successes and challenges that emerge throughout the year towards maintaining peace and security...

The Year in Review features the activities of the UN Peacekeeping Missions in 2009, highlighting the successes and challenges that emerge throughout the year towards maintaining peace and security...

This Report demonstrates that a more sustainable energy future is within our reach, and that industrial energy efficiency is key. It shows how industrial energy efficiency can make a difference by...

With the dramatic political and economic changes in the 1980s, the world steel industry faced a challenging period. Moreover, the steel industry itself brought about an internal evolution through...

One of the conclusions in this study is that the growth of scrap collection offsets the substantial decline in scrap reproduced and recycled in steel works. This was based on a look at the situation...

The focus on this statistical update is on the significance and influence of scrap metal in the iron and steel industries. The study presented is basically made up of statistical tables with short...

The Year in Review features the activities of the UN Peacekeeping Missions in 2008, highlighting the successes and challenges that emerge throughout the year towards maintaining peace and security...

The emergence and diffusion of advanced digital production (ADP) technologies clustered around the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is radically altering the nature of manufacturing production...

The Year in Review features the activities of the UN Peacekeeping Missions in 2010, highlighting the successes and challenges that emerge throughout the year towards maintaining peace and security...