Poverty Reduction

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Supporting Capacities for Integrated Local Development Practice Note

This practice note provides a concise overview of the capacity challenges involved in local development and provides a point of reference for discerning where CD investments and efforts could be focused. more

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Supporting Transformational Change

The purpose of this report is to reflect on UNDP’s experience of development cooperation over the past 50 years, and to extract some common themes and general lessons about development cooperation for the future. The report makes the case that development is a long-term proposition and is seldom more

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Symposium on Capacity Development, Tokyo, 2004

This report of the Tokyo International Symposium held February 4-6, 2004 reflects the focus areas of the six working groups, and examines ways to enhance understanding of the role of partnerships with external actors as catalysts for change in supporting capacity development processes. more

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Synthesis Report of 18 PSIA studies

This synthesis report presents the key findings from PSIA economic crisis studies based on a review of 18 country reports. PSIA studies conducted in these countries cover many different problems exacerbated by the economic crisis and present wide-ranging policy options to mitigate its negative more

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Syria: Impact of the Economic Crisis on Economy, Inequality and Poverty

The objectives of the study are to undertake a multi-level analysis to quantify the potential short-term impact of the global economic crisis and drought on the domestic economy, including their impact on inequality and poverty. The analysis also evaluates impacts of government intervention to 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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Human Development Index (HDI) figures are available as part of the Google Public Data Explorer tool.

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