This year edition of the Economic Report on Africa (‘Governing development in Africa - the role of the state in economic transformation’) –jointly published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union Commission- shows that the continent posted an economic growth rate of 4.7 per cent for 2010 and was expected to reach 5 per cent this year.
DI - 30/5/2011
The US Secretary of the Department of State Hillary Clinton outlines the international strategy for Cyberspace and identifies seven key policy priorities.
DI 26/5/2011
In the Joint Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the EESC and the Committee of the Regions, the European Commission lays out stronger relationships with neighbouring countries.
DI - 20/5/2011
In this statement, the US President Barack Obama lays out his vision for a new chapter in American diplomacy towards the region.
DI - 19/5/2011
The latest edition of the International Labour Organization (ILO) –entitled Equality at work: The continuing challenge- notes that new forms of discrimination at work arise while the old challenges remain at best only partially answered.
DI - 16/5/2011
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)’.
DI - 10/05/2011
The latest edition of the GIT report highlights –subtitled Transformations 2.0- collects the insights of practitioners, academics and industry experts and explores the new wave of transformations caused by ICT developments.
DI - 9/5/2011
The European Economic and Social Committee adopted this resolution by 149 votes to 11 with 10 abstentions at its plenary session on 15 and 16 March 2011.
DI - 6/5/2011
This CRS report addresses the implications and possible considerations for Congress related to the killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces in Pakistan on 1 May 2011. According to this, the ‘degree to which OBL’s death will affect AQ and how the U.S. responds to this event may shape the future of many U.S. national security activities’.
DI - 6/5/2011
This communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the ESC and the Committee of the Regions contains the EC’s new proposals on migration. The document differentiates between economic migrants trying to enter the EU illegally, refugees, asylum seekers and temporarily displaced persons who wish to return to their home countries.
DI - 5/5/2011
Published by the staff of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs in February 2011, the report provides the background to the programme of financial assistance agreed on 21 November 2010 and builds on the documents agreed upon with the Irish authorities.
DI - 4/5/2011
This document contains the text of speeches delivered in English and of the translations of speeches delivered in the other languages at the special session on Syria of the United Nations Security Council held on 27 April. No resolution was adopted.
DI - 3/5/2011
The 2010 revision of World Population Prospects, the official United Nations population projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, states that the current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach 10.1 billion in the next 90 years, reaching 9.3 billion by the middle of this century.
DI - 3/5/2011
Text of US President Barack Obama's statement on Osama bin Laden's death. See oficial video
