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Beyond Violence

Conflict Resolution Process in Northern Ireland

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: November 2002 )

After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...

After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...


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Emerging Trade Issues for Policymakers in Developing Countries in Asia and the Pacific

Series: Studies in Trade and Development
( Print: June 2009, PDF: September 2010 )

This is the second volume arising from the Macao Regional Knowledge Hub research workshop series associated with an ESCAP project under the same name. This volume combines 11 chapters under five parts...

This is the second volume arising from the Macao Regional Knowledge Hub research workshop series associated with an ESCAP project under the same name. This volume combines 11 chapters under five parts...


Globalization of Production and the Competitiveness of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in...

Trends and Prospects

Series: Studies in Trade and Development
( Print: June 2009, PDF: August 2010 )

The principal aim is to fill a perceived gap in policy-related research and understanding of the development of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector in the Asia-Pacific region, in the...

The principal aim is to fill a perceived gap in policy-related research and understanding of the development of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector in the Asia-Pacific region, in the...


Global Financial Turmoil and Reform

A United Nations Perspective

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: July 1999 )

As Asia's financial and economic crisis which started in 1997, deepened and spread around the world, United Nations economists on five continents shared notes to understand the upheaval and suggest...

As Asia's financial and economic crisis which started in 1997, deepened and spread around the world, United Nations economists on five continents shared notes to understand the upheaval and suggest...


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Inter-linkages

The Kyoto Protocol and the International Trade and Investment Regimes

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: June 2001 )

In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which...

In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which...


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Financing for Development

Proposals from Business and Civil Society

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: January 2002 )

In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...

In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...


Electronic Commerce Initiatives of ESCAP

Business Facilitation Needs

Series: Studies in Trade and Development
( Print: October 1998 )

This publication comes to address the need for facilitation measures that could be adopted in order to improve business performance focusing on electronic commerce initiatives. Its coverage includes...

This publication comes to address the need for facilitation measures that could be adopted in order to improve business performance focusing on electronic commerce initiatives. Its coverage includes...