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GUIDANCE MODERNIZING STAT LEGISLAT

Guidance on Modernizing Statistical Legislation

22 Aug 2019
The Guidance on Modernizing Statistical Legislation aims to support and inspire countries wishing to benchmark or update the legal framework of their national statistical systems. Based on a review of the current legal and institutional frameworks and the operational environment of statistical pr...
AN UNFAIR START: INEQUALIT(I)

Partire svantaggiati

La disuguaglianza educativa tra i bambini dei paesi ricchi

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Innocenti Report Card (Italian language)
15 Jan 2019
Il presente rapporto è dedicato alle disuguaglianze nell'ambito educativo in 41 dei paesi più ricchi del mondo, tutti membri dell'Organizzazione per la cooperazione e lo sviluppo economico (OCSE) e/o dell'Unione europea (UE). Utilizzando i dati più recenti disponibili, prende in esame le disuguag...
AN UNFAIR START: INEQUALIT(S)

Un comienzo injusto

La desigualdad en la educación de los niños en los países ricos

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Report card de Innocenti
16 Jan 2019
Este informe se centra en las desigualdades educativas en 41 de los países más ricos del mundo, todos ellos miembros de la Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE) o de la Unión Europea (UE). A partir de los datos más recientes disponibles, se examinan las desigualdades a lo lar...
AN UNFAIR START: INEQUALIT(F)

Un départ dans la vie marqué par les injustices

Inégalités scolaires chez les enfants dans les pays riches

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Bilan innocenti
30 Oct 2018
Un départ dans la vie marqué par les injustices : inégalités scolaires dans les pays riches, classe 41 pays membres de l'Union européenne et de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économique (OCDE) sur l'étendue des inégaltés scolaires, aux niveaux préscolaire, primaire et secondair...
HUMAN DEV INDICE & INDICA 2018

Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical Update

18 Sep 2018
Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical Update is being released to ensure consistency in reporting on key human development indices and statistics. It provides a brief overview of the state of human development—snapshots of current conditions as well as long-term trends in hum...
AN UNFAIR START: INEQUALITY IN CHI

An Unfair Start

Inequality in Children's Education in Rich Countries

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Innocenti Report Card
8 Feb 2019
This report focuses on educational inequalities in 41 of the world's richest countries, all of which are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and/or the European Union (EU). Using the most recent data available, it examines inequalities across childhood -- ...
UN DEMOGRAPH YRBK 2017 V68

United Nations Demographic Yearbook 2017

Sixty-eighth issue

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Demographic Yearbook (Ser. R)
21 Jan 2019
Demographic Yearbook 2017 is the sixty-eighth edition in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in the Yearbook, as available, for more than 230 countries and areas of the world up to the reference...
TRANS CORP V25 #2

Transnational Corporations Vol.25 No.2

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Transnational Corporations
5 Dec 2018
Transnational Corporations is a policy-oriented journal for the publication of research on the activities of transnational corporations and their implication for economic development. Articles accepted for publication in this issue report on the following research themes: international tax
ESTADO POBLACION MUNDIAL 2018

Estado de la población mundial 2018

El poder de decidir - Derechos reproductivos y transición demográfica

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Estado de la Población Mundial
13 Nov 2018
Los derechos humanos son universales, interrelacionados e interconectados. Esta publicación pone de relieve el hecho de que los derechos reproductivos, uno de los derechos más fundamentales inherentes a todas las personas y una de las decisiones más íntimas que una persona puede tomar, todavía no...
ETAT POPULATION MONDIALE 2018

État de la population mondiale 2018

Le Pouvoir du choix - les droits reproductifs et la transition démographique

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État de la population mondiale
13 Nov 2018
Les droits de l'homme sont universels, interdépendants et interconnectés. Cette publication souligne le fait que les droits reproductifs, l'un des droits les plus fondamentaux inhérents à toutes les personnes et l'un des choix les plus intimes qu'une personne puisse faire, ne sont toujours pas ac...
STATE WORLD POPUL RPT 2018

State of World Population 2018

The Power of Choice - Reproductive Rights and the Demographic Transition

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State of World Population
17 Oct 2018
Human rights are universal, interrelated and interconnected. This publication highlights the fact that reproductive rights, one of the most fundamental rights inherent to all persons and one of the most intimate choices a person can make, are still not available to all. Evidence remains that the ...
METHODOLOGY ASSESSING WAT(F)

Méthode d’évaluation des interactions entre l’eau, l’alimentation, l’énergie et les écosystèmes dans les bassins transfrontières et enseignements tirés de son application

synthèse

16 Nov 2020
Cette publication de synthèse contient des leçons tirées des évaluations des interconnexions, des compromis et des avantages de la gestion de l'eau, de l'énergie et des terres / agriculture, ainsi que de la protection de l'environnement dans les bassins transfrontaliers d'Europe du Sud, du Caucas...
PROGRESS TRANSBOUND WATER

Progress on Transboundary Water Cooperation 2018

Global Baseline for SDG 6 Indicator 6.5.2

22 Aug 2019
Cooperation over transboundary rivers, lakes and aquifers is critical to ensuring that water resources are managed in an equitable and sustainable manner, and the achievement of SDG6 (water). Transboundary waters also create social, economic, environmental and political inter-dependencies that ma...
PROGRESS TRANSBOUND WATER (R)

Progress on Transboundary Water Cooperation 2018 (Russian language)

Global Baseline for SDG 6 Indicator 6.5.2

29 Aug 2019
Cooperation over transboundary rivers, lakes and aquifers is critical to ensuring that water resources are managed in an equitable and sustainable manner, and the achievement of SDG6 (water). Transboundary waters also create social, economic, environmental and political inter-dependencies that ma...
PROGRESS TRANSBOUND WATER (S)

Avances en la cooperación en materia de aguas transfronterizas 2018

Valores de referencia mundiales para el indicador 6.5.2 de los ODS

29 Aug 2019
Con el fin de examinar los progresos generales necesarios para el logro del ODS 6 y determinar las interrelaciones y las formas de acelerar los avances, ONU-Agua elaboró el Informe de Síntesis 2018 sobre el ODS 6 relativo al agua y saneamiento, en el que se concluye que el mundo no está bien enca...
INDEX PROC ECON SOC COUN 2017

Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council 2017

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Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council
17 Dec 2018
The Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council is a bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the Economic and Social Council. This issue covers the 2017 session of the Council including the organizational and substantive session. The Index is divided in two parts c...
STAT YRBK 2018 61ST ISS

Statistical Yearbook 2018, Sixty-first Issue

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United Nations Statistical Yearbook / Annuaire Statistique des Nations Unies (Ser. S)
17 Oct 2018
The Statistical Yearbook is an annual compilation of a wide range of international economic, social and environmental statistics on over 200 countries and areas, compiled from sources including UN agencies and other international, national and specialized organizations. The 2018 edition contains ...
STATE FOOD & AGRICULTURE 2010/11

The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-2011

Women in Agriculture - Closing the Gender Gap for Development

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The State of Food and Agriculture
11 Oct 2011
This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture makes the "business case" for addressing gender issues in agriculture and rural employment. The agriculture sector is underperforming in many developing countries, in part because women do not have equal access to the resources and opportunities t...
AFRICAN GOVERNANCE RPT #5 2018

African Governance Report V - 2018

Natural Resource Governance and Domestic Revenue Mobilization for Structural Transformation

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African Governance Report
24 May 2019
Exploitation of natural resources has dominated economic activity in Africa but the benefits have accrued only to a privileged few. The continent’s most common strategy of exporting commodities in their raw (non-valued added) form has led to disappointing results, reflected in unsustainable and n...
RAPPORT SUR GOUVERN AFRIQUE #5

Rapport sur la Gouvernance en Afrique V 2018

La gouvernance des ressources naturelles et la mobilisation des recettes publiques pour la transformation structurelle

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Rapport sur la gouvernance en Afrique
11 Jul 2019
L’Afrique est dotée d’une profusion de ressources naturelles diverses, comme des sols et de l’eau pour l’agriculture, des forêts pour la production de bois et de produits forestiers non ligneux, ainsi que des ressources minérales, du pétrole et du gaz. L’exploitation directe de ces ressources dom...
SUSTAINABLE CITIES HUMAN MOBILITY

Sustainable Cities, Human Mobility and International Migration

A Concise Report

31 Aug 2018
This report reviews the current status of demographic evidence and its capacity to support monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focuses on the core systems generating demographic data and describes how the “data revolution” has already improved their performance and the pote...
TRADE & DEV RPT 2018

Trade and Development Report 2018

Power, Platforms and the Free Trade Delusion

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United Nations Trade and Development Report
18 Jan 2019
This flagship publication examines different aspects of the nature and role of international trade in the era of hyperglobalization and considers related policy challenges that will need to be addressed if trade is to contribute to a more stable and inclusive global economic order. Research provi...
REGULAT PROCED BARR TRADE: GEORGIA

Regulatory and Procedural Barriers to Trade in Georgia

Needs Assessment

12 Jun 2019
UNECE undertakes demand-driven national studies of regulatory and procedural barriers to trade, with a view to helping countries achieve greater regional and global economic integration; informing donors as to where assistance might be required, and supporting policy discussions within the Steeri...
TRACK ADAPT AGRICULT SECTORS

Tracking Adaptation in Agricultural Sectors

Climate Change Adaptation Indicators

15 Jun 2018
Tracking adaptation processes and outcomes is a continuous process which also encompasses monitoring and evaluation – one of the important elements of the climate change adaptation. A detailed review of existing literature on adaptation tracking tools showed a number of challenges and limitations...
REAL WOMENS RIGHTS LAND LAW

Realizing Women's Rights to Land in the Law

A Guide for Reporting on SDG Indicator 5.A.2

27 Jul 2018
This publication provides methodological guidance for reporting on Target 5.a of the Sustainable Development Goals, namely to “Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, ...
PULSES BYPRODUCTS ANIMAL FEED

Pulses and their By-products as Animal Feed

10 Jul 2018
Humans have been using pulses, and legumes in general, for millennia. Pulses currently play a crucial role in sustainable development due to their nutritional, environmental and economic values. The United Nations General Assembly, at its 68th session, declared 2016 as the International Year of P...