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This report brings together a range of existing scientific assessments and reviews global progress and future sustainable development pathways in an integrated way. It responds to the 2012 Rio+20...

Authored by an independent group of scientists appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General, the Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 presents a science-based call for transformations to...

The Report uses the latest scientific assessments, evidence bases about good practices, and scenarios that link future trajectories to current actions to identify calls to action by a range of...

The period of transition from socialism to capitalism in the Russian Federation has appeared to present limitless opportunities for international money-laundering. This publication discusses this...

This lecture, by the former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sanchez, reveals the extent and surge of the arms trade in the post-cold war world and its consequences for development.

The nations of the developing world are not just emerging markets, as the phase has it. They are human societies. This publication walks us through the systemic human development problems that emerge...

This book expresses the primacy of people centred development. It calls for a partnership between key institutions such as the United Nations and Government to give people 'a chance' by working...