The 2011 edition of the Least Developed Countries Report –subtitled The Potential Role of South-South Cooperation for Inclusive and Sustainable Development- argues that the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) need to go beyond business as usual in order to promote inclusive and sustainable development and it examines how South–South cooperation could support such a transformational agenda.
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Urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together, according to the HDR 2011 – subtitled ‘Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All’. The 2011 Report also includes Human Development Index (HDI) and updated editions of the complementary indices introduced in the 2010 Report (the Inequality-Adjusted HDI, the Gender Inequality Index, and the Multidimensional Poverty Index).
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The UN Economic Commission on Africa (ECA) presents the assessment of global progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in the region.
DI - 11/10/2011
This year’s edition of the State of the Food Insecurity in the World –subtitled ‘How does international price volatility affect domestic economies and food security?’- highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 had on different countries, with the small and import-dependent countries being most affected and specially vulnerable to poverty and food insecurity. It was produced by the three Rome-based agencies the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
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This year’s edition of the Progress on World’s Women: In pursuit of Justice Report –published by UN Women, the United Nations organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women- is focused on women’s access to justice. The report recognises the progress worldwide but calls on governments to take action to end the injustices that keep women poorer and less powerful than men.
DI - 7/7/2011
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the MDG’s. According to the report ‘significant strides have been made towards the Millennium Development Goals, yet reaching all the goals by the 2015 deadline remains challenging, as the world’s poorest are being left behind’.
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The fourth report in a series of the UNEP’s International Resource Panel seeks to apply the concept of decoupling economic growth and human wellbeing from negative environmental impacts and escalating resource use to address this challenge.
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According to the latest edition of this series issued by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on FDI, ‘Latin American and Caribbean region showed great resilience to the international financial crisis and became the world region with the fastest-growing flows of both inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI)’.
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Published by the World Bank, the WDR 2011: Conflict, Security and Development aims to provide insights on the political, security and economic dimensions of conflict resolution. It draws on the analysis of researchers and the experience of policy-makers in the development community, the UN system and the regional institutions.
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It is a free, online, interactive tool of the World Bank, which maps and graphs more than 175 indicators from its development database. It also covered critical issues such as poverty, food production, population growth, climate change, international trade and foreign direct investment.
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Released in March 2011, the SOFA 2010-2011 highlights the significant contributions of women to the rural economy in all developing country regions. According to this, ‘increasing women’s access to land, livestock, education, financial services, extension, technology and rural employment would boost their productivity and generate gains in terms of agricultural production, food security, economic growth and social welfare’. Also available: executive summary.
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Published in March 2011, the second edition of the Strategic Trends series contains a global overview of the main strategic trends identified by the CSS, such as emerging markets and fractures geopolitics, the changing regional dynamics in the Middle East, terrorism and counterterrorism ten years after 9/11 and narcotics as a growing security concern.
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The Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) has issued its latest report on remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean. According to these, remittances to the region ‘are likely to rise this year after stabilizing during 2010, although a weaker dollar and higher inflation are reducing their purchasing power in many countries’.
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The 2010 edition of the Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean is similar in structure to the 2009 edition and has no significant changes in terms of content or design. Published on 16 January, the yearbook is one of the main sources of statistical information in the region and covers demographic, social and economic issues. It also provides data on natural resources and the environment.
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The 2010 edition of the 'Least-Developed Countries Report 2010' –subtitled Towards a New International Development Architecture for LDCs- calls for the creation of a new international development architecture that would be based on five pillars: finance, trade, commodities, technology and climate change.
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The 20th anniversary edition of the HDR examines decades of Human Development data trends, refines the original Human Development Index with new databases and methodologies, and introduces new measures adjusting the index to reflect gender disparities and other internal national inequalities. It also features the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which was developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) with UNDP support.
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This study of the African Union, the UN Office of the Special Advisor on Africa (UN-OSAA) and the OECD looks at how African governments can diversify their economies and begins by examining some of the major determinants of diversification and examines how the private sector plays a key role by being at the forefront of innovation, research and development and production.
DI - 3/8/2010
Released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the report explores the challenges and constraints of the 21st century posed by the livestock sector cannot be solved by a single string of actions or by individual actors alone. The livestock sector requires appropriate institutions, research, development interventions and governance that reflect the diversity within the sector and the multiple demands placed upon it.
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Published on 23 June 2010, the report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. The world continues to make advances towards the MDGs, despite the global economic downturn, but the rate of improvement remains too slow and countries must step up their efforts if the MDGs are to be achieved by their target date of 2015.
DI - 27/7/2010
The 20th WIR –subtitled Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy- analyses the ways the participation of transnational corporations (TNCs) and the strategic use of foreign investment (FDI) can help developing and transition economies jump-start ‘low-carbon’ economic development. flows reacted to the current financial and economic crisis and the TNC’s and traditional investors affect agriculture in many developing countries.
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The WESS 2010, subtitled Retooling Global Development, identifies the major global development challenges for the 21st century and suggest ways in which the mechanisms for global economic governance should adjust in order to face up to these.
DI - 25/6/2010
The recent report of the World Tourism Organization is focused on tourism as one of the world’s top job creators and lead export sector, especially for the developing countries, and its significant role in the achievement of the MDGs 1 (eradication of poverty), 3 (gender equality), 7 (environmental sustainability) and 8 (global partnership for development).
DI - 18/6/2010
The year edition of the Economic Development in Africa, subtitled South Cooperation: Africa and the New Forms of Development Partnership, argues that South–South cooperation has the potential to enhance Africa’s capacity to deal with the challenges of poverty and poor infrastructure, though the potential benefits of cooperation are not automatic.
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This working document was prepared by the Spanish Presidency on agriculture and reform of the CAP, and was debated at the Informal meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture in Mérida (Spain) on 1 June 2010.
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The OECD Factbook provides a global overview of today’s major economic, social and environmental indicators, in a range of user-friendly formats.
DI - 14/5/2010
The Palestinian human development report 2009/10 - Investing in Human Security for a Future State- focuses on different aspects of human security: economy, food, health, environment, political, personal and community.
DI - 7/5/2010
According to the recent report on FDI in Latin America and the Caribbean, ‘despite the widespread drop in FDI throughout the region in 2009, the level achieved is the fifth highest in history’. Published by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the report focuses on three areas: a regional overview of FDI in 2009 and case studies of the automobile and iron and steel industries.
DI - 19/4/2010
According to this year’s edition of GFSR, the ‘risk to global financial stability has eased as the economic recovery has gained steam, but policies are needed to reduce sovereign vulnerabilities, ensure a smooth deleveraging process, and complete the regulatory agenda’.
DI - 24/3/2010
The ministerial conference - held on 31 March at the United Nations in New York and hosted by the US and the United Nations pledged US$5.3 billion for the next 18 months to support Haiti's path to long-term recovery from the earthquake that struck the country on 12 January.
DI - 9/3/2010
The first municipal Human Development Report (HDR) launched by the UNDP Office in India focuses on population trends, economy, slums, elementary education, health, gender issues and quality of life in Mumbai in 2009.
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The recent study of the ECLAC monitors the progress made and the difficulties encountered in attaining the targets of the seventh MDG for Latin America and the Caribbean. According to these, ‘the constant reduction of forest areas and the sustained increase of CO2 emissions in the region are impeding compliance with the seventh Millennium Development Goal (MDG7) on environmental sustainability’.
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Published by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), this new report on African remittances outlines the main results of a study on regulatory issues and market competition in 50 African countries representing 90 per cent of remittance flows to the region.
DI - 15/2/2010
Published by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), the second annual report on Arab Environment Climate Change analyses the region’s response to the urgent need for adaptation measures.
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The official website of the UN Climate Change Conference COP 15/CMP 5, which is being held in Copenhagen from 7 to 18 December 2009. The conference has brought together more than 20,000 delegates from 192 countries, NGO representatives and activits from ecologist movements, and aims to set up a new international framework that will substitute the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.
DI - 24/11/2009
The World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change aims to understand what climate change means for development policy. The report explores how to integrate development realities into climate policy.
DI - 17/11/2009
According to the recent ECLAC Social Panorama of Latin America report, ‘the global economic and financial crisis has hurt the tendencies to reduce poverty in the Latin American countries’. The report will be presented on 19 November.
DI - 5/10/2009
This year’s edition of the HDR is focused on migration within and beyond borders, and research on demographic changes and trends in both growth and inequality.
DI - 23/9/2009
The fifth edition of the Arab Human Development Report –subtitled Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries- argues that ‘human security is a prerequisite for human development, and that the widespread absence of human security in Arab countries undermines people’s options’.
DI - 9/7/2009
The MDG Report 2009 summarises progress towards the eight Millennium Development goals in each of the 10 major geographic regions. It warns that ‘although data are not yet available to reveal the full impact of the recent economic downturn, they point to areas where progress towards the eight goals has slowed or reversed’.
DI - 2/7/2009
This IRI’s Climate and Society publication presents the index insurance, ‘a type of insurance which offers significant opportunities as a climate-risk management tool in developing countries, if certain challenges are overcome’.
DI - 23/6/2009
The fifth edition of the Agricultural Outlook prepared jointly by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). According to this report, ‘the agriculture sector is showing more resilience to the global economic crisis than other industries’.
DI - 10/6/2009
The Global Corruption Barometer 2009 – issued in June by Transparency International - reveals ‘a growing distrust of business, the daily struggle of the world’s poor with petty bribery and public unconvinced of governments’ anti-corruption efforts’. This global public opinion survey reflects the views of more than 73,000 people from 69 countries and territories around the world.
DI - 29/5/2009
This year’s edition of the Economic Report on Africa (‘Developing African Agriculture through Regional Value Chain’) –jointly published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union Commission- highlights the recent economic trends and prospects in Africa.
DI - 28/5/2009
The ‘UNAIDS action framework: universal access for men who have sex with men and transgender people’ is a plan launched by the joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and UN Development Programme (UNDP). It encourages new and better approaches to HIV, specifically focusing on men who have sex with men and on transgender populations.
DI - 27/5/2009
The report analyses the findings of the Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) and OECD Survey on Budget Practices and Procedures that was conducted in 26 African countries in 2008.
DI - 25/5/2009
Published on 24 April, the 2009 edition of the Global Monitoring Report (GMR) warns that ‘although the first goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015 from its 1990 level is still reachable based on current projections, risks abound’.
DI - 12/5/2009
This publication of the UNIFEM is a resource on how to implement the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from a gender equality and women’s empowerment perspective.
DI - 15/4/2009
Published by the Social Watch network, the 2008 report titled ‘Rights is the answer’ focuses on the confluence of the financial crisis, rising food prices, climate change and growing inequities. See also the overview.
DI - 8/4/2009
These principles (endorsed in December 2008) were prepared by the DAC Network on Gender Equality of the OECD, working on a range of other products related to implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008). It suggests approaches and entry points for policy advisors and programme managers in both donor and partner countries.
DI - 10/3/2009
The African Development Bank Statistics Pocketbook presents summary economic and social data on regional member countries and on the operational activities of the AfDB Group in 2008.
DI - 9/3/2009
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) published its report, Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability, in September 2008. The document highlights the need for accountability to women and it also stresses that ‘governments and multilateral organisations must do a better job of answering to women for commitments made’.
DI - 19/2/2009
Conducted by the African Development Bank, the study highlights the social, economic and financial importance of migrant remittances in recipient countries, which represent on average between 9 and 24% of GDP, i.e. between 80 and 750% of the official development assistance (ODA) received by such countries. It aims to take stock of the overall financial flows from the African Diaspora.
DI - 30/12/2008
The Handbook -published by the Committee for Development Policy in December 20008- aims to promote a better understanding of the LDC (Least Developed Country) category and the benefits derived from membership therein. It contains “a comprehensive explanation of the criteria, procedures and methodology used in establishing which countries are eligible for inclusion in, or recommended for graduation from, the LDC category”.
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The 2007/08 China National Human Development Report -published in November 2008- focuses on the delivery of four essential basic public services (primary and junior secondary education, basic health care, social insurance and employment services) and analyses the national goal of “equalization” of access to them closely linked to the equity goal that was presented in the 2005 report.
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The 2008 ARDE ‘Shared Global Challenges’ is a World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) recent report. It highlights the critical importance of making progress on shared global challenges in order to raise living standards and lift people out of poverty.
DI - 25/9/2008
This Secretary-General’s report assesses the activities of all relevant bodies, agencies, funds and programmes of the UN system and other relevant international and regional organizations in addressing international migration and development issues.
DI - 24/9/2008
The 18th edition -subtitled ‘Transnational Corporations, and the Infrastructure Challenge’- analyses the latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and has a special focus in 2008 on the ways, extent and conditions under which transnational corporations (TNCs) can contribute to meeting the infrastructure challenge in developing countries.
DI - 17/9/2008
This year edition of the TDR 2008, subtitled ‘Commodity Prices, Capital Flows and the Financing of Investment’, highlights the paradox that the capital poor developing world is exporting capital to the capital rich developed countries, in defiance of mainstream economic theory.
DI - 15/9/2008
Officially launched on 11 September 2008, the MDG Report 2008 summarises progress towards the eight Millennium Development goals in each of the ten major geographic regions. The assessment is based on data available as of June 2008 on all official MDG indicators, including the new ones introduced.
DI - 30/7/2008
The CIDOB International Yearbook carries out a systematic monitoring of the international panorama and Spain’s foreign policy. The Country Profile of the 19th edition is dedicated to Nigeria and its regional setting. (Complete Yearbook in Spanish).
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The latest annual report from the World Bank on social and economic conditions across the continent, explores the patterns of growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past three decades. It contains over 1,000 indicators covering 53 African countries, and provides data from 1960 to 2006 grouped into 14 chapters.
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Global Development Finance is the World Bank’s annual review of global financial conditions facing developing countries. According to this year edition, “financial turmoil sent shock waves through high-income countries in 2007, but many developing countries emerged relatively unscathed”.
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The seventh edition of the African Economic Outlook (AEO) – an annual report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - is focused on technical skills development. The AEO reviews the recent economic situation, the likely short-term evolution and the social and political context of selected African economies.
DI - 26/10/2007
The 2008 edition of the World Development Report (WDR) –published by the World Bank (WB) on 19 October- calls for an ‘agriculture for development’ agenda in developing countries. The report states that promoting agriculture is imperative for meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty and hunger by 2015.
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The annual Commitment to Development (CDI) rates 21 rich countries on their dedication to policies that benefit poorer nations. Each rich country gets scores in seven policy areas (aid, trade, investment, migration environment, security and technology), which are averaged for an overall score. This year edition –published on 15 October- is focused on environment.
DI - 15/10/2007
The 2007 edition of the Trade
and Development Report, subtitled “Regional cooperation for development”,
recommends that developing countries should strengthen regional cooperation
with other developing countries, but proceed carefully with regard to
North-South bilateral or regional preferential trade agreements.
DI - 11/10/2007
The recent issue of this
International Poverty Centre (IPC) publication presents
12 articles summarising some of the most important recent research results
and commentaries on the effectiveness of international development cooperation against
the background of high-level promises of rapidly increasing aid, including
policy conclusions and recommendations for enhancing the impact of aid on the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
DI - 2/10/2007
According to the 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index -released
on 26 September by Transparency
International- a strong correlation between corruption and poverty
continues to be evident. Somalia and Myanmar share the lowest score of 1.4,
while Denmark has edged up to share the top score of 9.4 with perennial
high-flyers Finland and New Zealand. The 2007 CPI looks at perceptions
of public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories and is a composite
index that draws on 14 expert opinion surveys, which scores countries on a
scale from 0 to 10.
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This brief –published on 10
September 2007 and signed by Nancy Birdsall (President of the Center for Global Development) and Peter
Hakim (President of the Inter-American
Dialogue)- describes the political risks poverty and inequality pose for
the region and the hemisphere , including the United States, and then lays out
a practical agenda for how the U.S. can help.
DI - 5/9/2007
The sixth edition of the
African Economic Outlook (AEO) – an annual report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD) - is focused on access to drinking water and sanitation.
The AEO reviews the recent economic situation, the likely short-term evolution,
and the social and political context of selected African economies.
DI - 4/9/2007
The
rapid economic growth of China and India has been associated with much more
rapid growth in their trade. In some cases, this has created enormous
opportunities for their trading partners. In others, it has created strong
competition either in home markets, or in third markets.
DI - 12/7/2007
Africa Development Indicators
2006 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one
volume. It contains about 450 macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators,
covering 53 African countries.
DI - 11/7/2007
In March
2005, more than 100 countries made a firm commitment in the Paris Declaration
to measure their success, or failure, in making aid more effective. This report provides a snapshot of the state of affairs in 2005. For the
first time, it assesses the effectiveness of aid, not only globally, but also
for a range of donors. To measure its effectiveness, 34 developing countries
and 55 donors participated in a groundbreaking survey. See also: Country
Chapters
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This paper provides some background and a description of the financing commitments made at the Gleneagles G8 Summit in 2005. It then looks at the extent to which G8 members are meeting their commitments to increase aid and provide debt relief. The paper also includes a brief assessment of the aid activities of non-G8 countries, and concludes with a look ahead to the G8 Summit in Germany in June 2007.
Today, women constitute almost half of all international migrants worldwide -95 million or 49.6 per cent. This year edition of the State of World Population Report –published by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)- is dedicated to migrant women and their contribution to the economy and social well-being of populations living in both source and receiving countries
