Poverty Reduction

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The Development Advocate: Afghanistan Edition

The Afghanistan Edition of the Development Advocate showcases stories from successful projects in the UNDP's largest country programme.   "All the stories of our projects there, some bigger in scope than others, have at their core the common aspirations of a people yearning to make their more

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The Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Developing Countries

This paper identifies three key channels of transmission of the financial crisis from developed to developing countries: capital flows, trade and remittances, and provides broad recommendations for policy responses at the national level, proposing sweeping reforms at the global and regional level. more

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The Financial Crisis and its Impact on Developing Countries

In this paper, Stephany Griffith-Jones and José Antonio Ocampo identify three key channels of transmission of the financial crisis from developed to developing countries: capital flows, trade and remittances. The paper provides broad recommendations for policy responses at the national level, and more

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The Global Conversation Begins - Emerging views for a new development agenda

The United Nations and partners have launched an unprecedented series of consultations with people the world over to seek their views on a new development agenda to build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This global conversation responds to a growing call for active more

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The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative

While the HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) initiative represents a significant break from traditional debt relief, it is not a robust or fast enough intervention. This practice note details some arguments on how to expand the HIPC initiative and elaborates on UNDP’s role in the initiative and 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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