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FISCAL PANORAMA LAT AMER 2017

Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2017

Mobilizing resources to finance sustainable development

31 Jul 2017
The Fiscal Panorama of Latin America and the Caribbean 2017 analyses the scope for mobilizing resources to fund sustainable development within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It argues for the importance of moving towards progressive tax systems in which direct taxes...
GENDER EQUALITY HUMAN RIGHTS

Gender Equality and Human Rights

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UN Women Discussion Papers
31 Jul 2015
There is a strong commitment to equality between women and men in international human rights law. The various actors within the treaty system who are tasked with elaborating on the meaning of human rights in international law have given close attention to gender equality. This work evaluates thes...
CHILD FINAN TRANSF EARLY EDUC

Child-Related Financial Transfers and Early Childhood Education and Care

A Review of Key Developments, Impacts and Influences in Child-Related Support to Families

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UN Women Discussion Papers
31 Jul 2015
This publication examines policies for the support of families with children, in particular child-related financial transfers and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. The analysis is mainly focused on countries with institutionalized welfare states—primarily Western European and ot...
EXPAND HEALTHCARE ACCESS US

Expanding Health-Care Access in the United States

Gender and the Patchwork ‘Universalism’ of the Affordable Care Act

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UN Women Discussion Papers
31 Jul 2015
The United States has never assured the human right to health, including the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and access to all medical services. While there is some public financing of health care, mainly for older people and low-income children, the countr...
GENDER DIMENS PENSION SYSTEMS

The Gender Dimensions of Pension Systems

Policies and Constraints for the Protection of Older Women

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UN Women Discussion Papers
31 Jul 2015
Gender equality is one of the key challenges confronted by pension systems around the world. In a context of gendered labour markets, contributory pension systems face several constraints to guarantee universal and adequate pension benefits for women. Women’s life courses are characterized by lon...
ECON GROWTH SOCIAL REPRODUC

Economic Growth and Social Reproduction

Gender Inequality as Cause and Consequence

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UN Women Discussion Papers
30 Sep 2015
This work develops a set of regimes that link structures of economic growth with those of social reproduction. These regimes are then linked to groups of countries organized by economic structure and level of development to evaluate the macroeconomic consequences of a decline in gender inequality...
ARE GOVERNMENTS CATCHING UP

Are Governments Catching Up?

Work-Family Policy and Inequality in Latin America

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UN Women Discussion Papers
30 Sep 2015
This publication examines government policies toward the crucial nexus of work-family reconciliation, focusing on employment-based leaves and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. It starts by discussing the socio-economic context in Latin America. To illuminate regional trends and ...
DELIV DEVEL JUSTC FIN SDG AGND

Delivering Development Justice?

Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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UN Women Discussion Papers
16 Mar 2016
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes a goal to achieve gender equality for all women and girls and a re-commitment to governments’ human rights obligations. At the same time, governments have agreed to a range of strategies for financing the Agenda that arguably undermine their ab...
FINANC GEND EQUAL CONTXT SDG

Financing for Gender Equality in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals

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UN Women Discussion Papers
20 Mar 2016
This publication identifies a series of macro-level tools to create a supportive environment and generate the resources to promote Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to gender equality. A key argument is that financing for gender equality can be self-sustaining because of the feedback e...
GEND EQUAL SUST DEV PATHWAYS

Gender Equality and Sustainable Development: a Pathways Approach

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UN Women Discussion Papers
4 Jul 2016
The challenges of building pathways to sustainability and enhancing gender equality are both urgent. This work explores why they must be addressed together, and how this might be done. It puts forward a ‘gendered pathways approach’, as a conceptual framework for addressing the interactions, tensi...
INVEST GENDER-EQUAL SUST DEV

Investing in Gender-Equal Sustainable Development

Series:
UN Women Discussion Papers
18 Jul 2016
This work develops an agenda for investing in sustainable development, with particular emphasis on local priorities, poverty alleviation and gender equality. Sustainable development can take many different pathways, even within the dominant ‘three-pillar’ paradigm (economy-environment-society) of...
INDIAN LAB MARKT GENDR PRSPCT

The Indian Labour Market: A Gender Perspective

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UN Women Discussion Papers
17 Feb 2016
This work provides an in-depth analysis of trends in labour outcomes of women in India based on employment-unemployment surveys. The publication brings out the gender differentials that exist in the employment status of women and men despite the existence of legal and policy framework for the emp...
DESDE GOBIERNO ABIERTO AL ESTADO

Desde el gobierno abierto al Estado abierto en América Latina y el Caribe

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ECLAC Books / Libros de la CEPAL
19 Jul 2017
Uno de los principales desafíos de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible consiste en configurar un nuevo marco de gobernanza pública y una renovada arquitectura estatal que permitan promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas para el desarrollo sostenible, facilitar el acceso a la justicia ...
TRADE SOCPOL LABMKT CHINA WTO

Trade Liberalization, Social Policy Development and Labour Market Outcomes of Chinese Women and Men in the Decade After China’s Accession to the World Trade Organization

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UN Women Discussion Papers
26 Feb 2016
How trade liberalization affects women’s position in the labour market and what role public policy should play to make the process work better for women are among some of the most debated issues in academic communities and in policy-making arenas. This work sheds light on these contentious issues...
INVEST TRADE PROMO GEN REVENUE

Investing in Trade Promotion Generates Revenue

6 Mar 2017
Recent analytical literature has concluded that money spent on export promotion tends to foster export growth. This work discusses the findings of recent work by a team of consultants that find that a 1% increase in export promotion budgets increases exports by 0.074%, confirming results in the e...
SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL DEV ASIA PACI

Sustainable Social Development in Asia and the Pacific

Towards a People-centred Transformation

22 Sep 2017
The Asia-Pacific region’s impressive economic growth and remarkable achievements in poverty reduction have not succeeded in closing gaps in income between the rich and poor, nor the unequal access to, for example, health care and education among other basic services. These gaps disproportionately...
PROTECCION SOCIAL AMERICA LATINA

Protección social en América Latina La desigualdad en el banquillo

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ECLAC Books / Libros de la CEPAL
5 Jun 2017
En América Latina los sistemas de protección social adolecen de profundas segmentaciones y desigualdades, y varios de ellos enfrentan graves crisis de legitimidad como consecuencia de promesas incumplidas. Para emprender reformas que permitan encarar la complejidad de los sistemas existentes, for...
CONSENSOS CONFLICTOS POLITICA

Consensos y conflictos en la política tributaria de América Latina

Series:
ECLAC Books / Libros de la CEPAL
6 Jun 2017
En este libro se destaca la importancia de la política tributaria como instrumento de desarrollo en los países de América Latina. A lo largo de esta publicación pueden identificarse una serie de consensos y conflictos que conviven en torno al diseño y la implementación de los diferentes tributos ...
AFRICA RENEWAL V31 #1 2017

Africa Renewal, May-July 2017

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Africa Renewal
29 Jun 2017
The Africa Renewal magazine examines the many issues that confront the people of Africa, its leaders and its international partners: sustainable development goals, economic reform, debt, education, health, women's empowerment, conflict and civil strife, democratization, investment, trade, regiona...
EMPODER MUJER CONTRAT PUBLICA

El empoderamiento de la mujer a través de la contratación pública

31 Dec 2014
La presente guía proporciona a los gobiernos, las entidades contratantes y otras partes interesadas un conocimiento más profundo de los retos a los que se enfrentan las empresas propiedad de mujeres a la hora participar en los mercados de contratación pública: brinda herramientas para abordar est...
EOR 2016 SUPP2 ECOSOC CULT RGTS

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Report on the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Sessions (23 February-6 March 2015, 1-19 June 2015, 21 September-9 October 2015)

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Report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
11 Jul 2017
This is the official report on the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Sessions of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
EOR 2017 SUPP19 ANNUAL RPT ESCAP

Annual Report of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 2017

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Annual Report of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
9 Jul 2018
The Annual Report chronicles the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific’s achievements and future goals, against a backdrop of major global shifts sweeping across the economic, social and environmental landscape. UN ESCAP promotes rigorous analysis and peer learnin...
HNDBK NATIONAL SPECTRUM MNGMT 2015

Handbook on National Spectrum Management 2015

9 Jun 2017
This Handbook describes the key elements of spectrum management: spectrum management fundamentals, spectrum planning, frequency assignment and licensing, spectrum monitoring, spectrum inspection and investigation, spectrum engineering, spectrum economics, automation of spectrum management activit...
HNDBK ON RADIO ASTRONOMY 2013

Handbook on Radio Astronomy 2013

2 Jun 2017
The Handbook on Radio Astronomy has been developed by experts of Working Party 7D of ITU-R Study Group 7 (Science Services) that is responsible for radio astronomy. This Handbook is not intended as a source book on radio astronomy, but rather deals with such aspects of radio astronomy that are re...
HNDBK EARTH EXPLORATION-SATELLITE

Handbook on Earth Exploration-Satellite Service

9 Jun 2017
This Handbook provides full and comprehensive information on the development of Earth Exploration-Satellite Service (EESS) systems. Specifically, it provides basic definitions, sheds light on the technical principles underlying the operation of systems and presents their main applications to assi...
HNDBK SPACE RESEARCH COMMUNICATION

Handbook on Space Research Communication

9 Jun 2017
This Handbook is concerned principally with those aspects of the space research service that are relevant to the management of radio spectrum usage in order to minimize interference between radiocommunication services when the space research service is involved. Space communications involves comm...
UNDERSTANDING CYBERCRIME

Understanding Cybercrime

Phenomena, Challenges and Legal Response

9 Jun 2017
Cyber attacks are on the rise. The media constantly report about data breaches and increasingly sophisticated cybercrime. Even governments are affected. At the same time, it is obvious that technology alone cannot solve the problem. What can countries do? Which issues can be addressed by policies...
HNDBK GROUND WAVE PROPAG 2014

Handbook on Ground Wave Propagation 2014

2 Jun 2017
The Handbook on ground wave propagation is of special interest for communication, particularly broadcasting, at the lower frequencies where the mode has been in use for more than 90 years. It deals with fundamentals and theory, wide-scale considerations and prediction methods used for compatibili...
HNDBK COMPUTER-AIDED TECH 2015

Handbook on Computer-Aided Techniques for Spectrum Management (CAT) 2015

2 Jun 2017
This Handbook should be seen as complementary to Handbooks 'National Spectrum Management' (2015) and 'Spectrum Monitoring' (2011). The topic of national spectrum management has evolved and become the central hot spot in the activities of all telecommunication administrations. This is particularly...
TRENDS TELECOM REFORM 2016

Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2016

2 Jun 2017
Under the overarching theme "Regulatory incentives to achieve digital opportunities", the 16th edition of Trends explores topical issues regulators need to address to ensure that citizens can benefit from the social and economic opportunities brought about by the digital economy. For digital oppo...