The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs has just launched the study, Rethinking Poverty: Report on the World Social Situation 2010. The report seeks to contribute to rethinking poverty and its eradication. It stresses the urgent need for a strategic shift away from the market fundamentalist thinking, policies and practices of recent decades towards [...]
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has prepared the report, “Beyond the Midpoint: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals,” to review the extent of progress made towards the MDGs as well as assess what it will take to accelerate progress towards the goals around the World. Thirty country-level assessments and extensive consultations with stakeholders were undertaken to [...]
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has just launched the report, “The Social Panorama of Latin America 2009.” The study links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of the current crisis and on [...]
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has just published a collection of working papers on ways of helping the poor deal with economic insecurity. They look at:
-How to deliver microinsurance programs to help meet the insurance needs of the poor.
-How to assess the insurance role of microsaving.
-Whether microfinance can reduce economic insecurity [...]
The UN Economic and Social Council has just published the Millennium Development Goals Report 2009. The study assesses the progress towards fulfilling the MDGs, which established quantitative benchmarks to halve extreme poverty in all its forms. Despite many successes, progress towards achieving the goals is now threatened by sluggish economic growth, diminished resources, fewer trade [...]
