Poverty Reduction

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Domestic Resource Mobilization, Fiscal Space, and the MDGs

The first in a series of discussion paper on MDGs and debt, this paper argues that domestic resource mobilization is an important alternative to external borrowing. Examining two forms of domestic resource mobilization, tax revenues and domestic borrowing, it concludes with findings and policy more

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Employment Policies for Sustainable Development: The Experience of Ghana

The impact of structural adjustment programs in many Sub-Saharan African countries on unemployment and poverty in the short-run has been weak due to the partial and fragmented nature of the policies. more

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Empowering Lives, Building Resilience

This publication features success stories from countries where UNDP support has resulted in transformative changes, including by fostering the growth of institutional and human capacities.   To qualify as a transformational success, a story needed to demonstrate tangible and sustainable more

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En Route to Equality: A Gender Review of National MDG Reports

This global review of national Millennium Development Goal reports is a follow-up to a pilot exercise commissioned by the Bureauof Development Policy, UNDP in 2003. The findings provide an additional gender dimension to the review of national reports, and demonstrate the added value of including a more

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Engendering Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies

This paper explores the how gender fits into macroeconomic analysis at the conceptual, modeling, empirical, and policy formulation levels. The last section provides a brief summary of UNDP's efforts in the area of gender and macroeconomics. 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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