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At the 2005 World Summit, United Nations Member States strongly supported a fair globalization and the attendant goals of full and productive employment and decent work for all, particularly through...

This publication is a compilation of presentations, issue papers, summaries, and keynote speeches that constituted the High-Level Segment meetings of the United Nations Economic and Social Council for...

Five years after the start of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), governance issues remain at the forefront. The COVID-19...

This book is based on the Secretary-General’s report to the High-Level segment of the Economic and Social Council on promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for...

This report examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic can play in advancing progress towards the 2030 Agenda for...

This publication is a compilation of presentations and papers that focus on the topic, Supporting Africa’s Efforts to Achieve Sustainable Development. They were presented at the High-Level Segment...

This report looks at national-level developments in relation to several concepts highlighted in the targets of Goal 16, which are viewed as institutional principles: access to information...

The World Public Sector Report 2003 provides an analysis of the status of e-government in the world today. It adopts the UN Millennium Declaration as its analytical framework and presents global...

This book aims to present the key debates that took place in the Economic and Social Council meetings on the theme of the High-Level Segment of 2004, “Resources Mobilization and Enabling Environment...

This publication presents the key debates that took place in the Economic and Social Council meetings on the theme of the high-level segment of 2005 Achieving the Internationally Agreed Development...

The main objective of the 2010 World Public Sector Report is to analyze challenges, strategies and practices in rebuilding public administration after conflict. It is unique in that it provides key...

The conditions of globalization, including economic integration, fiscal discipline, introduction of information communications technologies and democratic governance, have increasingly forced states...

This report examines how the public sector can foster integrated approaches to implementing the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It examines challenges and opportunities for...

The World Public Sector Report, one of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs(UNDESA) Flagship Reports, aims to capture the emerging issues, concerns and innovations in...

This publication is based on highlights of the discussion held during the 12th Session of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), in 2013, on “The Role of Responsive and...

It is increasingly being acknowledged that the State is a key actor in the development process. It has a major role to play in making globalization work for all; in alleviating poverty and income...