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Debt Sustainability in HIPC and other Critically Indebted Developing Countries

The fourth in a series of discussion papers on MDGs and debt sustainability, this paper reviews the evidence of the HIPC initiative. Despite significant levels of debt relief through this initiative, in 11 out of 13 countries, debt ratios have deteriorated. The paper makes proposals to enhance the more

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Delivering As One: Report of the Secretary-General's High Level Panel

This November 2006 report, titled "Delivering as One", offers a framework for a unified and coherent UN structure at the country level, providing a series of recommendations to improve the UN's effectiveness in delivering its mandate and responding to new and growing challenges, including the more

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Delivering on Capacity Development Event June 2008

Capacity Development Group hosted a two-day seminar for UNDP colleagues from the global, regional and country levels to discuss how UNDP can deliver on its capacity development agenda. This report provides the key messages and action points emerging from the retreat to facilitate continued dialogue more

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Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the MDGs

There has been much progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, but in most parts of the world much more needs to be done. With respect to the eighth goal—to create a global partnership for development—Member States have made concrete commitments focusing in particular on more

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Developing Capacity Through Technical Cooperation (Executive Summary)

Developing Capacity Through Technical Cooperation: Country Experiences is the second in a series of studies exploring the fundamentals of capacity development and the role of external cooperation. It provides concrete inputs to rethinking technical cooperation for today's challenges based on six more

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Poverty Reduction

 

The Millennium Development Goals originate from the Millennium Declaration, endorsed by 189 world leaders at the UN in September 2000. Over the past decade, the world has made impressive progress towards achieving these goals, yet some countries are lagging and many of them may not be able to reach their goals by 2015.

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The Sustainable Future We Want

UNDP has decades of concrete development experience in countries ranging from fragile States to middle-income countries like Brazil and Indonesia. This, combined with our four focus areas, make us uniquely situated and qualified to answer the UN’s call for a better and more sustainable future.

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