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Welfare Policies in the UNECE Region
Why so Different?
This paper discusses why the UNECE countries have chosen rather different models of welfare state and, more generally, alternative policies to fight poverty. In particular, the paper focuses upon why...
This paper discusses why the UNECE countries have chosen rather different models of welfare state and, more generally, alternative policies to fight poverty. In particular, the paper focuses upon why...
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Inventory of Main Standards and Parameters of the E Waterway Network
Blue Book, First Revised Edition
The objective of the “Blue book” is to establish an inventory of existing and envisaged standards and parameters of E waterways and ports in Europe and to show, on an internationally comparable basis...
The objective of the “Blue book” is to establish an inventory of existing and envisaged standards and parameters of E waterways and ports in Europe and to show, on an internationally comparable basis...
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Inventaire des Normes et Paramètres Principaux du Réseau des Voies Navigables E
Livre Bleu Première Edition Révisée
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Inventory of Main Standards and Parameters of the E Waterway Network
Blue Book First Revised Edition (Russian language)
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Sustaining Growth in a Resource-based Economy
The Main Issues and the Specific Case of Russia
This Paper argues that the challenges posed by resource dependence can be overcome if accompanied by the right economic policies. It then analyzes what these policies are, and how to set up economic...
This Paper argues that the challenges posed by resource dependence can be overcome if accompanied by the right economic policies. It then analyzes what these policies are, and how to set up economic...
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Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2021
Series: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
( PDF: September 2021
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A year and a half into the pandemic, progress towards expanding women’s rights and opportunities continues to be tested and impeded. Women’s economic losses have not rebounded, hunger is on the rise...
A year and a half into the pandemic, progress towards expanding women’s rights and opportunities continues to be tested and impeded. Women’s economic losses have not rebounded, hunger is on the rise...
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2020
Series: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
( PDF: October 2021
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The year 2020 was supposed to be momentous—in a good way. Around the globe, world leaders and women’s rights activists had planned to celebrate the anniversaries of key legal and policy innovations...
The year 2020 was supposed to be momentous—in a good way. Around the globe, world leaders and women’s rights activists had planned to celebrate the anniversaries of key legal and policy innovations...
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2019
Series: Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals
( PDF: October 2021
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Are we on track to achieve Goal 5? On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government gathered at UN Headquarters in New York to comprehensively review progress on the implementation of the...
Are we on track to achieve Goal 5? On 24 and 25 September 2019, Heads of State and Government gathered at UN Headquarters in New York to comprehensively review progress on the implementation of the...
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Accession of Central European Countries to the European Union, The
The Trade and Investment Effects on Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
The continued growth of the European Union (EU) will have important economic consequences both for the EU member states and for their trading partners, especially those at the new borders of the...
The continued growth of the European Union (EU) will have important economic consequences both for the EU member states and for their trading partners, especially those at the new borders of the...
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Role of Institutions in Economic Development, The
Gunnar Myrdal Lecture
This paper discusses the role of institutions in economic development. The author puts forward an argument that the considerable gap in real income per capita between richer and poorer countries...
This paper discusses the role of institutions in economic development. The author puts forward an argument that the considerable gap in real income per capita between richer and poorer countries...
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Process of European Integration and the Future of Europe, The
Gunnar Myrdal Lecture
The Mydral Lecture, delivered by Nobel laureate Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 11 February 2004 is presented in this paper. In his lecture, Prof. Stiglitz offers...
The Mydral Lecture, delivered by Nobel laureate Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 11 February 2004 is presented in this paper. In his lecture, Prof. Stiglitz offers...
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Domestic Savings and the Driving Forces of Investment in the ECE Emerging Market Economies
( Print: May 2005
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This paper addresses some aspects of the mobilization of domestic financial resources for development in the ECE emerging market economies, focusing in the interrelation between national savings...
This paper addresses some aspects of the mobilization of domestic financial resources for development in the ECE emerging market economies, focusing in the interrelation between national savings...
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Global Governance
Lessons from Europe - Gunnar Myrdal Lecture
Once a year, on the occasion of the Annual Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the ECE invites a distinguished economist to deliver the Myrdal Lecture on a major...
Once a year, on the occasion of the Annual Session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the ECE invites a distinguished economist to deliver the Myrdal Lecture on a major...