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 [...]
Several UN organizations have developed new websites with links to information on Haiti. If you want to keep track of what’s going on in Haiti following the earthquake disaster, we recommend the following sites:
ReliefWeb: Updated information resources including maps and situation reports on the disaster, maintained by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of [...]
The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is being held from December 7 to 18 2009. You can follow the conference through webcasts, news, documents and the official conference website or the host country Denmark’s website.
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has just launched the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009: Year-end Update. The update indicates that the region is leading the global economic recovery, with the growth rate in 2010 forecast to reach 6.3%, the highest in the world. [...]
Norway, Australia and Iceland top the Human Development Index (HDI) as part of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR) published annually by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Spain has risen to 15th position. It is based on data from 2007, before the onset of the global financial crisis.
The HDI is a composite index covering [...]
The Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the five United Nations regional commissions have just published an advance release of the Global Outlook 2009 report. It provides an overview of recent global economic performance and short-term prospects for the world economy and of some key global [...]
