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WORLD ECON SITUAT PROSPECTS 2023

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2023

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World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP)
25 Jan 2023
The world continues to confront multiple, inter-connected crises. Amid a slow recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is facing a food and energy crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine with record high inflation unleashing a cost-of-living crisis. Developing countries are i...
WORLD ECON SITUAT PROSPECTS 2022

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2022

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World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP)
13 Jan 2022
This is the United Nations definitive report on the state of the world economy, providing global and regional economic outlook for 2022 and 2023. The World Economic Situation and Prospects 2022 will examine the recovery of the global economy from the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to presenting t...
WORLD SOCIAL REPORT 2021

World Social Report 2021

Reconsidering Rural Development

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World Social Report
20 May 2021
The World Social Report 2021 points to new directions in which rural development strategies need to be reconsidered. It offers certain strategic principles, programmes of action, and a set of concrete policies that can be combined to devise effective strategies that can help to realize the potent...
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOP OUTLOOK 2020

Sustainable Development Outlook 2020

Achieving SDGs in the Wake of COVID-19 - Scenarios for Policymakers

20 Aug 2020
The setbacks caused by COVID-19 (coronavirus) need not be permanent, and it is possible to regain the momentum and move ahead towards the SDGs. It is even possible to convert the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity for recovering better, by directing much of the resources earmarked for recovery t...
DEVELOPMENT POLICY & MULTILATERALI

Development Policy and Multilateralism after COVID-19

Committee for Development Policy (CDP) - Policy Note

29 Jul 2020
This Policy Note assembles analysis on different angles of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis and the challenges and opportunities it presents for development policy and multilateralism. It addresses, among other issues: new ways of designing the relationship between governments and private actors...
WORLD ECON SITUAT PROSPECTS 2020

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2020

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World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP)
31 Jan 2020
This is the United Nations definitive report on the state of the world economy, providing global and regional economic outlook for 2020 and 2021. Produced by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the five United Nations regional commissions, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Dev...
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOP OUTLOOK 2019

Sustainable Development Outlook 2019

Gathering Storms and Silver Linings

31 Oct 2019
There has been some significant progress made towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since their adoption in 2015. Notwithstanding this progress, gathering storms of weakening global economic growth, rising income inequality, unabated global warming and climate change, and esc...
WORLD ECON SITUAT PROSPECTS 2019

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2019

Series:
World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP)
21 Jan 2019
The United Nations definitive report on the state of the world economy, providing global and regional economic outlook for 2019 and 2020. Produced by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the five UN regional commissions, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, with contr...
HNDBK LEAST DEV CTRY CAT 3RD

Handbook on the Least Developed Country Category

Inclusion, Graduation and Special Support Measures, Third Edition

8 Nov 2018
The Committee for Development Policy (CDP) has been  actively engaged in the establishment of the least developed country category and has since become highly recognized for its expertise in the identification of these countries. This revised edition of the Handbook on the Least Developed Country...
HNDBK LEAST DEV CTRY 3RD (F)

Manuel relatif à la catégorie des pays les moins avancés

Inscription, retrait et measures spéciales de soutien, 3ème édition

19 Nov 2019
La troisième édition du Manuel relatif à la catégorie des pays les moins avancés donne des informations détaillées sur la liste des pays les moins avancés (PMA); il décrit également les procédures et méthodologies utilisées pour les identifier, ainsi que les mesures de soutien international mises...
 EXPANDING PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY

Expanding Productive Capacity

Lessons Learned from Graduating Least Developed Countries

4 Jan 2018