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TRENDS TELECOM REFORM 2015

Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2015

2 Jun 2017
Under the overarching theme "Getting ready for the digital economy", the 15th edition of Trends in Telecommunication Reform discusses changing ICT consumer behaviour, consumer empowerment and protection in the digital age. It further explores the opportunities and challenges of big data and what ...
YEARBOOK STATISTICS (ITU) 2016

Yearbook of Statistics 2016

Telecommunication/ICT Indicators 2006-2015

2 Jun 2017
This is the 42nd edition of the Yearbook of Statistics. The data included in the Yearbook have been collected and processed by the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) from replies received to ITU questionnaires sent to telecommunication ministries or regulators and national statistics offi...
YEARBOOK STATISTICS (ITU) 2015

Yearbook of Statistics 2015

Telecommunication/ICT Indicators 2005-2014

2 Jun 2017
This is the 41st edition of the Yearbook of Statistics. The data included in the Yearbook have been collected and processed by the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) from replies received to ITU questionnaires sent to telecommunication ministries or regulators and national statistics offi...
MEASUR INFORM SOC RPT 2016

Measuring the Information Society Report 2016

9 Jun 2017
The Measuring the Information Society Report, which has been published annually since 2009, features key data and benchmarking tools to measure the information society, including the ICT Development Index (IDI). The IDI 2016 captures the level of ICT developments in 175 economies worldwide and co...
MEASUR INFORM SOC RPT 2015

Measuring the Information Society Report 2015

2 Jun 2017
The Measuring the Information Society Report (MISR), which has been published annually since 2009, features key ICT data and benchmarking tools to measure the information society, including the ICT Development Index (IDI). The IDI 2015 captures the level of ICT developments in 167 economies world...
AFRICAN STAT YRBK 2016

African Statistical Yearbook 2016

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African statistical yearbook / Annuaire statistique pour l'Afrique
20 Jun 2017
The African Statistical Yearbook 2016 is the eighth edition jointly produced by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union Commission (AUC), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). As with the previous seven editions, this 2016 edition presents a time series showi...
AFRICAN STAT YRBK 2017

African Statistical Yearbook 2017

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African statistical yearbook / Annuaire statistique pour l'Afrique
15 Aug 2017
The African Statistical Yearbook is a publication jointly produced by Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African Union Commission (AUC), presenting time-series data over the latest nine years for which data are available, showing how African countrie...
REVISTA DE LA CEPAL #121 04/2017

Revista de la CEPAL No.121, Abril 2017

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Revista de la CEPAL
17 May 2017
La Revista CEPAL se fundó en 1976 y es una publicación cuatrimestral de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, de las Naciones Unidas, con sede en Santiago de Chile. El objetico de la Revista es contribuir al examen de los problemas del desarrollo socioeconómico de la región, con ...
CEPAL REVIEW #120 12/2016

CEPAL Review No.120, December 2016

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CEPAL Review
17 May 2017
Cepal Review is the leading journal for the study of economic and social development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by the Economic Commission for Latin America, each issue focuses on economic trends, industrialization, income distribution, technological development and monetar...
CEPAL REVIEW #119 08/2016

CEPAL Review No.119, August 2016

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CEPAL Review
5 May 2017
Cepal Review is the leading journal for the study of economic and social development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by the Economic Commission for Latin America, each issue focuses on economic trends, industrialization, income distribution, technological development and monetar...
INEGALITES DE REVENUS EN AFRIQUE

Inégalités de revenus en Afrique subsaharienne

Tendances divergentes, déterminants et conséquences

1 Oct 2019
L’Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) a enregistré une performance économique remarquable au cours des 15 premières années du XXIe siècle. Cette tendance fort encourageante a mis un terme à une longue période de stagnation et inversé le déclin économique des 25 années précédentes dans la région. Elle s’e...
INCOM INEQUA TREN SUB SAHARA

Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa

Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences

18 Sep 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) recorded a remarkable economic performance in the first 15 years of the 21st century. Such an encouraging trend, which reversed the stagnation or decline of the prior 25 years, was accompanied by a perceptible, modest, but uneven decline in aggregate poverty, together wit...
UNLOCK POTE REG ECON COOP SOU ASIA

Unlocking the Potential of Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration in South Asia

Potential, Challenges and the Way forward

11 Jul 2017
This report examines how countries in South Asia could capitalize on opportunities to cooperate for closer regional economic integration, in particular in the four broad areas of trade and market integration, regional connectivity, financial cooperation, and collective actions to address shared r...
ACHIV SUST DEV GOALS SOUTH ASIA

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in South Asia

Key Policy Priorities and Implementation Challenges

30 May 2017
Global progress on the Sustainable Development Goals will depend to a large extent on the collective action of South Asia to implement them. The sub-region indeed accounts for almost one fourth of the world's population, 36 per cent of the world's poor and nearly half of the world's malnourished ...
WORLD ECON SOCIAL SURV 2017

World Economic and Social Survey 2017

Reflecting on Seventy Years of Development Policy Analysis

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World Economic and Social Survey (WESS)
13 Jul 2017
The aim of WESS 2017 is to document the intellectual influence of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs through this flagship publication on its 70th Anniversary. First published in 1948, the Survey is the oldest continuous post-World War II publication of its kind that records and analys...
REG COOPERAT SUST ENRGY ASIA PAC

Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Energy in Asia and the Pacific

9 Jun 2017
This publication is the theme study for the 73rd session of Commission to be held in May 2017. The main purpose of the publication is to call on policymakers in Asia and the Pacific for urgent actions to transition national energy sectors to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), partic...
INTER AGENCY TASK FORCE RPT 2017

Report of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development 2017

Financing for Development - Progress and Prospects

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Report of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development
15 May 2017
The Inter-Agency Task Force Report assesses progress in the seven action areas of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda: (i) domestic public resources; (ii) domestic and international private business and finance; (iii) international development cooperation; (iv) international trade as an engine for deve...
ASIA PACIFIC CTRIES SPEC NEED 2017

Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Needs Development Report 2017

Investing in Infrastructure for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future

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Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Needs Development Report
11 Jul 2017
This report introduces the Access to Physical Infrastructure Index as a tool to capture the multidimensional character of infrastructure and to illustrate the strong positive causality between infrastructure and sustainable development. The report highlights that significant infrastructure gaps e...
RAPPORT ECONOMIQ AFRIQUE 2017

Rapport économique sur l'Afrique 2017

l'industrialisation et l'urbanisation au service de la transformation de l'Afrique

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Rapport économique sur l'Afrique
28 Apr 2017
L’édition de 2017 du Rapport économique sur l’Afrique portera sur les liens entre l’industrialisation et l’urbanisation. L’urbanisation est une des grandes tendances qui influent profondément sur les dimensions sociales, économiques et environnementales de la croissance et de la transformation en...
ECON RPT ON AFRICA 2017

Economic Report on Africa 2017

Urbanization and Industrialization for Africa’s Transformation

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Economic Report on Africa
28 Apr 2017
The 2017 Economic Report on Africa focuses on the linkages between industrialization and urbanization. Urbanization is one of Africa mega trends with profound implications for the social, economic, environmental dimensions of growth and transformation. Theory and experience demonstrate that indus...
SOCIAL PANORAMA LAT AMER 2015

Social Panorama of Latin America 2015

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Social Panorama of Latin America
8 May 2017
The 2015 edition of Social Panorama of Latin America analyses poverty trends, as measured by ECLAC. It also examines changes in income distribution and in other aspects of inequality. With a view to contributing to the development of public policies to overcome poverty and socioeconomic inequalit...
ECON DEV IN AFRICA RPT 2017

Economic Development in Africa Report 2017

Tourism for Transformative and Inclusive Growth

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Economic Development in Africa Report
31 Jul 2017
Tourism - in terms of its contribution to GDP, employment and trade - is a critical sector for many African economies, and its growth is increasingly driven by tourists originating from the continent itself. However, most African countries still face significant challenges and constraints in expl...
ECON SOC SURVEY ASIA PAC 2017

Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2017

Governance and Fiscal Management

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific
26 Jun 2017
This publication presents the latest macroeconomic trends, identifies emerging risks and challenges, and takes stock of fiscal, monetary and structural policy developments in the region, providing recommendations for policymakers and other relevant stakeholders. The report shows that, while the r...
PANORAMA SOCIAL AMERICA LATIN 2015

Panorama Social de América Latina 2015

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Panorama Social de América Latina
10 May 2017
En esta edición de 2015 del Panorama Social de América Latina se analizan las tendencias de la pobreza según las mediciones propias de la CEPAL. Asimismo, se revisan los cambios registrados en la distribución del ingreso y en algunas otras dimensiones de la desigualdad. Con el objeto de contribui...
PANORAMA INSERCION INTERNACIO 2016

Panorama de la Inserción Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe 2016

La región frente a las tensiones de la globalización

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Panorama de la Inserción Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe
10 May 2017
En la edición 2016 del Panorama de la Inserción Internacional de América Latina y el Caribe se analiza, desde la perspectiva del comercio, el contexto internacional y regional. Desde esa perspectiva, se constata un fuerte aumento en los últimos años de los cuestionamientos a la globalización, sob...
LAT AMER WORLD ECON 2016

Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2016

The Region Amid the Tensions of Globalization

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Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy
18 Apr 2017
The 2016 edition of Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy reviews international and regional developments from a trade perspective, describing the principal global economic trends and structural changes in international trade, the main areas of trade growth and the changes these dr...
STATE WORLD POPUL RPT 2011 (R)

The State of World Population 2011 (Russian language)

People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion

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State of World Population (Russian language)
31 Dec 2011
In late 2011, the global population will reach 7 billion, up from 6 billion in barely 12 years. This Report examines how the world got to this milestone, mentioning factors such as the big strides in health care that allow older people to live longer, more children to survive to adulthood and bey...
STATE WORLD POPUL RPT 2011 (A)

The State of World Population 2011 (Arabic language)

People and Possibilities in a World of 7 Billion

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State of World Population (Arabic language)
31 Dec 2011
In late 2011, the global population will reach 7 billion, up from 6 billion in barely 12 years. This Report examines how the world got to this milestone, mentioning factors such as the big strides in health care that allow older people to live longer, more children to survive to adulthood and bey...
AFRICA RENEWAL SPECIAL ED 2017

Africa Renewal, Special Edition 2017

Special Edition on Youth

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Africa Renewal
18 Apr 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...
AFRIQUE RENOUVEAU V30 #3 2016

Afrique renouveau, Décembre 2016

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Afrique renouveau
13 Mar 2017
Le magazine Afrique renouveau traite des nombreux défis auxquels sont confrontés les populations africaines, leurs dirigeants et leurs partenaires internationaux: les objectifs de développement durable, les réformes économiques, la dette, l’éducation; la santé, la promotion de la femme, les confl...