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United Nations Statistical Yearbook (Cloth)
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The Statistical Yearbook is an annual compilation of a wide range of international economic, social and environmental statistics on over 200 countries and areas, compiled from sources including UN agencies and other international, national and specialized organizations.
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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Special Bibliography
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This bibliography is the second edition to be published by the UNICTR legal Library and Reference. It continue to show how the ICTR inspired researchers. Only for this edition, 200 titles will be added including books, articles from legal journals, comments and summaries regarding cases, unpublished theses and other relevant titles. The product will serve as a reference tool in locating resources written in the work of the Tribunal.
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National Accounts Statistics
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The publication contains detailed official national accounts data for 202 countries or areas of the World for the years 2000 to 2011. Each country chapter presents a write-up on the methodology and data sources which are used to compile the national accounts. The publication contains statistics on gross domestic product by expenditure at current and constant prices and the relations among product, income, saving and net lending; value added by kind of activity at current and constant prices, and output, gross value added and fixed assets by industry; classification of consumption expenditure of general government, households, and non-profit institutions serving households according to purpose; production account through the financial account for the institutional sectors; and cross classification of gross value added by industry and institutional sector.
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World Statistics Pocketbook
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The World Statistics Pocketbook 2012 is the thirty-second in a series of annual compilations of key statistical indicators prepared by the United Nations Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Over 50 indicators have been collected from more than 20 international statistical sources and are presented in one-page profiles for 216 countries or areas of the world. This issue covers various years from 2005 to 2012.
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Arab Human Development Report
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This edition marks the ten-year anniversary of the launch of the Arab Human Development Report series. This report aims to reassess the development paths of the Arab countries, to identify key trends and areas of progress and challenge, and to identify key lessons learned and positive examples that can be used by stakeholders in the Arab countries, particularly governments, as they seek to bolster human development in an increasingly complex development context. It explores a wide range of topics such as peace and stability; education and values; opportunities and challenges for the youth; sustainability; rule of law, integrity and transparency; poverty and social development; and development and the public sphere. The theme connecting all the chapters is empowerment for human development.
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International Trade Statistics Yearbook
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This publication is issued in two volumes which are prepared at two different times in the year. Volume I: Trade by Country provides an overview of the international trade merchandise trade in 2011, as well as detailed data for a total of 175 countries (or areas) are shown with the 2011 data on imports and exports by commodity and trading partner provided for approximately 90 countries (or areas), representing more than 70% of world trade of 2011. Volume II: Trade by Commodity contains the detailed tables showing international trade in main commodity groups, and is finalized approximately six months after the completion of Volume I (in December 2012).
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United Nations Juridical Yearbook
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The present volume, which is the forty-ninth of the series, covers activities undertaken in 2011 and contains information such as legislative texts and treaties, a general review of the legal activities of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations, a list of judgments, advisory opinions and selected decisions rendered by international tribunals, as well as a selected bibliography listing works and articles of a legal character relating to the work of the United Nations and related intergovernmental organizations.
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Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook
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The Yearbook provides data on the production of over 600 industrial commodities, and covers 200 countries and areas. Data can be located by country, geographical region, and/or economic grouping.
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Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
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This book assesses feasible financing strategies for policymakers to follow in pursuance of human development, taking as reference the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their achievement by 2015. These strategies are analyzed in the context of broader concerns of economic development with special reference to nine countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East; that is, how to make macroeconomic policies support more effectively sustained growth while reducing widespread poverty and inequalities and other human development gaps in low- and middle-income countries, especially in times of global economic crises or external shocks. In this sense, this book adds new evidence regarding the social deficits in these countries and suggests policy options to overcome them.
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Assessment of Development Results: Fiji/Samoa
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This report presents an independent country-level evaluation conducted by the UNDP Evaluation Office in 2010. The evaluation examines the strategic relevance and positioning of UNDP support, and its contribution to the development of Fiji/Samoa.
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Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific
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The Statistical Yearbook presents data for the 58 regional Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) member countries, as well as world, regional, sub-regional and economic aggregates for comparison. It offers current trends and emerging topics in the Asia-Pacific, grouped around the themes of people, the environment, the economy and connectivity. It provides the international and regional community with key indicators, objective analyses of the current trends and emerging issues, along with data and charts. In order to maximize the comparability, the Yearbook data is sourced exclusively from international agencies that adhere to the official global statistical standards.
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Nineteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific: Report of the Conference
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The Conference was aimed to provide a regional forum where governmental officials, planners, scientists and experts from the Asia and the Pacific region and from other regions could meet to report on the efforts being accomplished in the development and implementation of national and regional spatial data infrastructures in the region and other parts of the world, and to address the common needs, problems and experiences in the field of cartography and geographic information, including educational and training aspects, scientific and technological requirements, implementation issues and benefits.
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Impact of Poorly Regulated Arms Transfers on the Work of the United Nations, The: UNODA Occasional Papers No.23
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This paper aims to develop a coherent United Nations approach to support the international community’s efforts to improve the regulation of international transfers of conventional arms. It records the United Nations Organization’s advocacy over the past years of a robust and comprehensive Arms Trade Treaty that covers the full array of conventional weapons as well as ammunition and that includes provisions that arms not be transferred where there is a clear risk that they will be used to commit violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law or seriously undermine development.
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Tenth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
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This publication comprises of reports and technical papers submitted to the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. It covers such areas as: national standardization, training courses, terminology, co-operative arrangements for the naming of features beyond a single sovereignty and international co-operation measures.
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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific
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This document provides a review of the region’s performance in 2012 and its outlook in 2013 as it recovers from the global economic crisis and assesses the region’s policy response to remaining and emerging vulnerabilities. Areas of economic and social policy analysed include growth, inflation, trade and investment, financial markets, employment, migration and remittances. Key challenges ahead are addressed and policy responses recommended for countries in order to sustain their development. The document also addresses a thematic issue, discussing the current approach of macroeconomic policy making and critically assessing whether it has served development adequately.
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Forum on Crime and Society
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The global response to trafficking in persons is the main topic of this issue of Forum on Crime and Society. Following the ratification of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, in 2003, many countries have introduced new or improved existing legislative provisions to tackle this crime more effectively. Trafficking in persons is now a specific offence in many countries, at least for its most common purposes, namely sexual exploitation and forced labour. The present article provides a broad overview of how countries worldwide have so far responded to trafficking in persons.
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Championing Children's Rights: A Global Study of Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children
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Independent Human Rights Institutions for Children, referred to as "Ombuds for Children", have gained considerable importance in implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and as key contributors to policy processes for child rights. Ombuds for Children monitor the actions of governments and other actors that affect children, promote children’s rights, and facilitate dialogue between children and the State. Many countries established, or are setting up, such institutions. International networks exist to facilitate and support these efforts. This study examines independent institutions for children’s rights, with a view to informing decision-making. It analyzes their distinctive value in the realization of children’s rights, highlights practical considerations, and identifies conditions for their effective functioning.
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Demographic Yearbook
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Demographic Yearbook 2011 is the the sixty-second in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in the Yearbook, as available, for more than 230 countries and areas of the world up to the reference years 2011. This edition of the Yearbook contains chapters on the population size and distribution, the population of capital cities, fertility, foetal mortality, infant and maternal mortality, general mortality including by cause of death, nuptiality and divorce.
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Cities of Opportunity: Partnerships for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future. Final Report of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Urban Forum
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Cities of Opportunity: Partnerships for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future presents the outcomes of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Urban Forum, organized by ESCAP and partners from 20-25 June 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. The report gives an overview of current thinking on inclusive and sustainable urban development and how innovative financing and governance approaches can contribute to that. It highlights the role that social movements play in changing Asian cities for the better. Papers written by eminent urban experts outline urban challenges specific to five sub-regions: North and North-East Asia, South-East Asia, South and South-West Asia, North and Central Asia and the Pacific. Summaries of break-out sessions organized by ESCAP’s partners go in depth on specific aspects of urban development, including urban planning, infrastructure, alternative financing mechanisms and housing.
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World Population Prospects DVD
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This Probabilistic Population Projections CD-Rom was prepared by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). It contains probabilistic projections of total fertility, and also includes probabilistic projections of life expectancy at birth for all countries that do not have a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS infections. The probabilistic projections are based on the historical estimates of population by age and sex, fertility and mortality between 1950 and 2010 from the 2010 Revision of the World Population Prospects.
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World Youth Report
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This is a biennially recurring publication of the United Nations. This year, it is largely based on an e-discussion with young people and representatives of youth-led organizations on the transition from schools and training institutions into the world of work. It shares the participants’ views, experiences and recommendations on preparing for, entering, and remaining active in the labour force. Young people are crucial stakeholders in the pursuit of decent and productive work for all, often pioneers in their respective fields, yet, too frequently, their voices go unheard particularly with decision-makers. This report brings young people’s voices into the forefront where youth issues are discussed and acted upon.
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Child Well Being in Rich Countries: A Comparative Overview
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Part One of this report presents a league table of child well-being in 29 of the world's advanced economies. Part Two looks at what children say about their own well-being (including a league table of children’s life satisfaction). Part Three examines changes in child well-being in advanced economies over the first decade of the 2000s, looking at each country’s progress in educational achievement, teenage birth rates, childhood obesity levels, the prevalence of bullying, and the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
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Asia Pacific Development Journal
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The primary emphasis of the Journal is the publication of empirically based, policy-oriented articles, which can engage the attention of policy makers, academicians and researchers. The articles analyze development issues and problems relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific Development Journal is issued twice a year.
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Organized Crime and Instability in Central Africa
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No area of the world faces a greater challenge with regard to resource-related conflict than Central Africa. The violence and instability in the region has cost millions of lives, ranking among the most deadly in recent history. All those presently indicted by the International Criminal Court come from Central Africa, broadly defined, and more children are exploited in armed conflict in Central Africa than in any other part of the world. While the causes of the conflict are complex, there can be little doubt that resource theft and smuggling have enabled armed groups and have perpetuated an environment of lawlessness and impunity. This Report assesses the mechanics of how contraband and resource smuggling fuel conflict, prolong instability and retard development.
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Estimated World Requirements of Narcotic Drugs
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This publication provides analysis of recent trends and statistics for estimated requirements and actual movements of narcotic drugs. Data is provided for specific groups of drugs and countries. The technical data on narcotic drugs are published for control purposes and to meet the needs of researchers, enterprises and the general public. The publication of statistical data provides information for analytical purposes, inter alia, on the availability and use of narcotic drugs in various countries and territories. The publication of estimates and statistics on production, manufacture, stocks and utilization of narcotic drugs is also intended to furnish producing and manufacturing countries with information on prospective trends. This trilingual publication is in English, French and Spanish.
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Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the Permanent Court of International Justice
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This series contains summaries of judgments, advisory opinions and orders of a substantive nature issued by the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The present volume includes summaries of all the judgments, advisory opinions and orders issued by the Permanent Court of International Justice, the predecessor of the International Court of Justice. From 1922 to 1946, the Permanent Court dealt with 29 contentious cases and delivered 27 advisory opinions, thus participating in the settlement of numerous international disputes and contributing to the development of international law. The decisions summarized in the present volume have played and continue to play an important role in understanding the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice.
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Psychotropic Substances: for (YR)
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This publication provides statistics and assessments of annual medical and scientific requirements for psychotropic substances, levels of consumption of groups of the substances, prohibitions and restrictions on their export and import. This trilingual publication is in English, French and Spanish.
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UNEP Year Book
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The UNEP Year Book is an annual publication that highlights emerging issues and environmental trends. Every year it provides an update on new science and developments that are relevant for policy makers. Since 2003, the UNEP Year Book series has contributed to strengthening the science-policy interface by bringing the latest environmental science and emerging issues to the attention of governments and by supporting science-based decision making.
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World Mortality Report
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The World Mortality Report 2011, prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, provides a comprehensive set of mortality estimates for the world’s countries and their aggregates.
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Crushed Hopes: Underemployment and Deskilling among Skilled Migrant Women
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This report is a collective publication comprising a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective and three empirical case studies from Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom. It explores the disproportionate difficulties skilled migrant women can face in transferring their skills and finding employment commensurate with their education when relocating to a new country. The case studies highlight situations in which migratory status and labor market dynamics can combine to constrain skilled and highly skilled migrant women to low-skilled occupations despite their often high human capital. They also analyze the impact that such occupational downgrading can have on migrant women’s well-being and the strategies that women can adopt to regain a professional status.
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Local Commons and Democratic Environmental Governance
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Providing a much-needed antidote in this age of globalization, this volume advances the idea of collaborative governance as an integration of open and closed commons. Taking into consideration the dimension of conflict resolution, it studies examples of governance structures in various countries around the world to develop a new type of democracy towards multilevel environmental governance that involves the public, private and commons spheres. With contributions from researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, this volume demonstrates through institutional and empirical analyses the essential role of local commons in providing an axis of resistance to increasing environmental devastation and social inequality towards creating a sustainable future for local communities as well as society at large.
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Changing Nature of Asian-Latin American Economic Relations
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This book aims to document the growing investment and trade relations between Latin America and Asia, as well as some of their imbalances. It also provides several examples on how to upgrade trans-Pacific economic relations. It is offered to the Asian and Latin American policymaking, academic and business communities, as a contributioon to bridging the gaps in our knowledge of economic relations between the two regions.
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Options for the Further Strengthening of the NPT's Review Process by 2015
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Parties participating in the 2010 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) decided to defer its consideration of further strengthening of the review process of the Treaty to the next review cycle. Consequently, this issue was addressed at the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference, held in Vienna from 30 April to 11 May 2012. This paper examines the various proposals that have been put forward thus far and that could incrementally improve accountability and efficiency as well as provide greater continuity and substantial savings. This includes smarter use of the time for substantive consideration, on the general debate and early establishment of subsidiary bodies, on moving to digitized records, on the establishment of an NPT Secretariat and the enhancement of participation by non-governmental organizations.
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Enabling Environment for the Successful Integration of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Global Value Chains: Country Studies of Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka
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This publication aims to propose practical policy interventions for improving business environments by targeting three South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, to facilitate SMEs’ access to global and regional markets through GVCs. Sector based value chain approach was adapted to focus on a few product groups with high export potentials: plastic goods from Bangladesh; coffee and ginger for Nepal and rubber and electronic products in Sri Lanka. National action plans and a subregional programme, together with operational strategies including needed institutional framework among stakeholders, for those products were developed and presented.
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Policy Guidebook for SME Development in Asia and the Pacific
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As drivers of economic growth and prosperity, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in economic development. However, the SME sectors of developing Asia-Pacific economies face issues (both general and nation-specific) that hinder their growth. There is a strong need to tackle such issues while taking into account the variety of experiences, policies and programmes of different countries. Covering major SME constraints — business enabling environment, entrepreneurial culture, access to finance, innovation and technology adaptation, business development services, and market access — this publication proposes public policy guidelines with an aim to develop a vibrant SME sector. It serves as a training manual for entrepreneurs, trainers as well as business associations for SME capacity building.
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African Statistical Yearbook
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The Yearbook series is a result of collaborative efforts by major African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism of socioeconomic data on African countries, as well as the development of a harmonized database. It seeks to promote wider use of country data, reduce costs, significantly improve the availability and quality of the data, and lead to better monitoring of development initiatives on the continent. The data in this issue of the Yearbook are arranged generally for the years 2003-2011, or for the last eight years for which data are available. It is published in a single volume consisting of two parts: a set of summary tables followed by country profiles.
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Energy Balances and Electricity Profiles
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This report contains energy balances for about 115 developing countries, showing energy production, trade, conversion and consumption for each fuel used in the country, as well as electricity profiles for about 190 countries, providing detailed information on production trade and consumption of electricity, net installed capacity and thermal power plant input for selected developing and developed countries. This publication is bilingual (English and French) and is available in printed and electronic (PDF format) versions.
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Global Report 2012: UNAIDS Report on the Global Aids Epidemic
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The 2012 UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic is the leading source of authoritative information about the state of HIV and AIDS worldwide. It contains information from 186 countries and provides a comprehensive analysis of the AIDS epidemic and response. Substantially revised since the last Global Report in 2010, this report is structured to reflect the 10 targets and elimination areas agreed by UN Member States in their 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS. An essential resource for anyone seeking clear and accurate information including scholars, policymakers and advocates for improved responses to the complex challenges of the AIDS epidemic.
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Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Their Precursors
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This publication lists national manufacturers authorized by governments to manufacture or convert specific narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as well as manufacturers of precursor chemicals, on a country-by-country basis. Along with the name of manufacturers, readers will find contact details and the name of narcotic drugs and/or psychotropic substances each manufacturer is authorized to produce. An index in English, French and Spanish of all substances under international control reported to have been actually manufactured during the year appears at the end of the publication, indicating the country or countries in which manufacture took place and the manufacturers involved.
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Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa
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In 2004, the African Gender Institute ran a continental research project, Mapping Sexualities, among the objectives of which was the development of a research methodology suited to carrying out in-depth case studies of the dynamics of gender and contemporary sexual cultures in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda. This book is the result of that research. The chapters cover broad-ranging issues and include questions about what it means to research topics that are unpopular or fraught with the sense of the taboo that underpins much work in sexualities and gender studies. Overall, the diverse pieces within the collection offer the opportunity to see qualitative research not as the ‘poor cousin’ of quantitative studies but as a zone which raises intellectual and political challenges.
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Trade Facilitation Terms: An English-Russian Glossary
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The revised second edition was prepared in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Commission of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation and contains changes of some terms, minor editing, and updates of some web-links. This Glossary is intended for professionals in the field of trade regulation, government officials, company managers, teachers and university students. It aims at providing practical assistance in developing international economic relations, common standards and tools for trade facilitation. It should be of help for international trade negotiators, linguists and translators, by providing the basis for standard translation of these terms for all stakeholders.
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World Population Prospects
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This report presents the 2010 Revision of the population estimates and projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. The 2010 Revision constitutes the twenty second round of the global population estimates and projections produced by the Population Division since 1951 and it breaks new ground in the production of population projections. For the first time, projections are carried out up to 2100, instead of 2050 as previously.
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International Accounting and Reporting Issues
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This volume contains a review of the main developments in the area of accounting and reporting during 2011, including the proceedings of the 28th session of ISAR, which was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 12 to 14 October 2011. It contains discussion and analysis of a number of corporate reporting issues that policy-makers, regulators, standard-setters, private sector as well as public sector accountants, auditors, academia, and other interested readers will find useful for keeping up-to-date with developments in the corporate reporting arena, including financial and non-financial reporting.
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20 Years of Action for Global Environment
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Over the last two decades, the Small Grants Programme (SGP) has supported communities to respond to environment and development challenges with sustainable livelihoods, community nature-based enterprises, and microfinance approaches that alleviate poverty, provide income, increase food security, and enhance overall well being. This publication presents the history and evolution of the SGP. It provides an account of its principal features: diverse partnerships which are its mainstay; and, the results and benefits achieved. Since its launch in 1992, the SGP has stayed true to its mandate of providing local and global environmental benefits within the framework of UNDP's sustainable development mission.
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Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean
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The sixty-fourth edition of the Economic Survey reviews the economic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean during the first half of 2012, and assesses the economic policies implemented by the countries of the region in the face of adverse external scenarios, such as spiralling food and fuel prices in 2008, the global financial crisis, and international uncertainty and the global economic cooldown starting in the second half of 2011. It also tracks investment in the region over time, identifying its components and examining the pattern of savings for funding investment. Finally, it examines the challenges faced and the progress made on four important fronts: the countercyclical response on the part of the regional development banks; new instruments for facilitating intraregional trade; changes to the Latin American Reserve Fund; and the creation or strengthening of mechanisms for fiscal and monetary authorities to cooperate in exchanging information and drafting common standards.
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Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy
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The 2011-2012 edition focuses on the theme of continuing crisis in the centre and new opportunities for developing economies. Chapter I examines the difficult international economic situation and the outlook for the rest of the decade. Chapter II takes stock of the boom in commodity prices that began around 2003 and its evolving impact on the value of the region’s exports, drawing particular attention to the growing role of developing Asia, especially China, as a destination for commodity exports from Latin America and the Caribbean. Chapter III looks at recent performance and the short-term outlook for trade and economic integration in the region. It analyzes foreign trade trends in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2011 and 2012 by main trading partner and category of product for the region overall and for the subregions. Chapter IV examines the international integration of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to the trends discussed in the rest of the document.
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Inventory of Main Standards and Parameters of the E Waterway Network: Blue Book
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This book presents a regularly updated inventory of existing and envisaged standards and parameters of E waterways (Pan-European network of inland waterways of international importance) and ports in Europe and shows, on an internationally comparable basis, the current inland navigation infrastructure parameters as compared to the minimum standards and parameters prescribed in the European Agreement on Mainland Inland Waterways of International Importance (AGN). It identifies bottlenecks and missing links in the existing E waterway network. This second revised edition has just been prepared in accordance with the instructions of member states, both Contracting Parties to the AGN and those not yet Contracting Parties.
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Caribbean Human Development Report 2012: Human Development and Shift to Better Citizen Security
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Crime has become one of the main challenges threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, but the right mix of policies and programmes can halt the problem. This report reviews the current state of crime as well as national and regional policies and programs to address the problem in seven English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. It provides key recommendations regarding turning the high rates of violent crimes around, addressing gender-based violence, addressing youth violence, and public security.
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Compendium of Intra-African and Related Foreign Trade Statistics 2011
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This Compendium is compiled to provide quality and timely statistical data for the monitoring, evaluation, analysis, research, and promotion of the intra-African trade. The Compendium presents foreign trade data in sixteen chapters for all African countries for the period 2002 to 2010. Different data sources have been used and various common estimation methods applied to fill data gaps. Information on total, share, direction, and evolution of African trade is provided. Focusing on intra-African trade, related statistical data of trade flows are grouped by region, subregions, and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in Africa, a unique feature that has been found nowhere else. It is hoped that the Compendium will provide the needed support to ongoing efforts aimed at ensuring the integration of the African continent.
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No One Left Behind: Good Practices to Ensure Equitable Access to Water and Sanitation in the Pan-European Region
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This publication presents good practices and lessons learned from throughout the pan-European region on the policies and measures to be enacted to provide equitable access to water and sanitation. It distinguishes three key dimensions of equitable access: geographical disparities; specific barriers faced by vulnerable and marginalized groups; and affordability concerns. A range of available policy options to fight inequities in each of those key dimensions are presented.
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Assessment of Development Results: Philippines
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This ADR has examined contribution made by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to development results and its strategic positioning in the Philippines during the latest two programming cycles: 2001-2009.
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Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change (The)
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A flurry of extreme weather events, together with projections that grow more somber with every new scientific advance, have dramatically highlighted the need to respond more effectively to climate change. Reacting to events after they occur is no longer sufficient; we increasingly need to anticipate and reduce the suffering and the enormously damaging impacts coming events will cause. This book addresses a major gap in adaptation efforts to date by pointing to the vital role that an understanding of population dynamics and an extensive use of demographic data have in developing pre-emptive and effective adaptation policies and practices. It provides key concepts linking demography and adaptation, data foundations and techniques for analyzing climate vulnerability, as well as case studies where these concepts and analyses illuminate who is vulnerable and how to help build their resilience.
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Investment Policy Review (Country)
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The IPR of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia analyzes FDI trends and their impact on the host economy, provides a detailed evaluation of the legal and regulatory framework for investment, including concrete recommendations to improve it, and presents an overall strategy to attract investment that feeds into a government programme for stimulating investment covering the period 2011 to 2014.
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Expropriation
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In this publication, Section I defines the concepts of direct and indirect expropriation and reviews the variety of measures that can constitute an expropriation. Section II focuses on the core issue of establishing an indirect expropriation: the recent treaty practice on defining indirect expropriation as well as arbitral practice. Section III discusses the differences between compensation for a lawful expropriation and reparation for unlawful expropriations, as well as the question of valuation of investments. Section IV offers options which policy makers and negotiators may wish to consider.
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Fostering Innovative Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Policy Options
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This publication sheds light on innovative entrepreneurship and difficulties that entrepreneurs face when creating business based on research and development results. The legal and regulatory conditions for enterprise development and the existing infrastructure for applied research are explored in the context of creating a climate conducive to the emergence of new companies. Sources of financing for innovative entrepreneurs and roles of specialized financial providers are explored. Highlighted is the need to strengthen linkages between institutions that generate knowledge and the firms that strive to use it commercially. The publication also discusses government policies facilitating the emergence of new innovation-based enterprises and their initial growth. It focuses on identifying bottlenecks and corrective action that governments and other stakeholders should take.
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Bulletin for Industrial Statistics for the Arab Countries 2004-2010
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This publication provides detailed industrial data of Arab countries for policy-makers, analysts and researchers. It includes time series of data and indicators for the period 2004- 2010. The Bulletin is divided into two parts. Part I includes summary tables on the overall industrial trends like the levels of output expressed as the per capita value added at constant prices, labor productivity expressed as the share of value added at constant prices per employee, and the size of the contribution made by industry to gross domestic product (GDP) at producers’ prices. Part II contains tables of industrial statistics for each Arab country – the number of establishments, the number of employees, wages and salaries, output, value added and the industrial production index numbers.
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UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law, Part Three: Treatment of Enterprise Groups in Insolvency
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Adopted in 2010, this text is designed to provide timely guidance to States on how to develop and improve the administration of the insolvency of enterprise groups, both domestically and in the cross-border context. It recognizes that the business of corporations is increasingly conducted, both domestically and internationally, through enterprise groups, which are therefore an important feature of the global economy and significant to international trade and commerce. Notwithstanding that significance, and the importance of knowing how a group will be treated in insolvency if its business fails, as well as the need for fast and efficient resolution of its financial difficulties, the Commission noted that very few, if any, States recognized enterprise groups as distinct legal entities or had a comprehensive regime for their treatment in insolvency.
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Law of the Sea: A Select Bibliography
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Compiled by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, this bibliography covers 20 subject categories based on the major topics of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea. It is intended for the use of those interested in ocean affairs and the law of the sea matters in general and in the UN Conventional on the Law in the Sea in particular.
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Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development: East Asian Perspectives
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This volume gives attention to the evolution of multilevel environmental governance in the East Asian region, including both Northeast and Southeast Asia. It examines how effective emerging environmental governance and policy have been and addresses the underlying causes of local, national, regional and global environmental challenges. Topical chapters include democratization and its effect on decision-making processes, international environmental aid, economic analysis of carbon reduction policy, regional and global environmental regimes and subsequent new financial mechanisms, as well as hybrid systems of environmental governance that emphasize the role of the private sector and civil society in contributing to environmental governance.
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Globalization and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
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This publication critically reviews the effects of globalization on sub-Saharan Africa over the last three decades. The large gains expected from opening up to international economic forces have, to date, been limited, while there have been significant adverse consequences. Foreign direct investment in the region has been largely confined to resource extraction, especially minerals, even as continuing capital flight has reduced financial resources available for productive investments. Premature trade liberalization has undermined prospects for the economic development of productive capacities in many sectors – including manufacturing and agriculture -- are not sufficiently competitive to take advantage of improvements in market access.
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Regional Integration in East Asia: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
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Regional Integration in East Asia: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives is the culmination of five years of intensive research on Asian regional integration by Waseda University. It re-examines theoretical approaches to comprehending the actual state of integration in the region and presents the most compelling among them. It also examines the state of regional cooperation in Asia in areas ranging from the economy to energy and the environment, security and education. In addition, the book offers long-term historical perspectives, including especially those of Japan, ASEAN and China, on Asian regional integration. Thus, it sheds light on diverse aspects, levels of analysis and time spans, and offers a comprehensive portrayal of the actual condition of Asia and the state of endeavours to build regional cooperation and institutions. This volume will open a new research frontier in Asian regional integration research.
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Glossary of Shared Water Resources: Technical, Socio-economic and Legal Terminology
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This glossary was prepared by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in cooperation with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) of Germany. It is a response to a request from the sixth session of the Committee of Water Resources at ESCWA, which called for a clearly explained vocabulary for use in describing internationally-shared surface and groundwater. Adopting a unified English-Arabic common terminology is thus expected to harmonize understanding of the technical, socio-economic, environmental, institutional and legal issues related to the joint management of shared water resources. This glossary is intended to be used by specialists, including decision makers and negotiators from different Western Asian and Arab countries.
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Independent Review of UNDP Evaluation Policy
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This is the first independent review of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Evaluation Policy that was requested by the UNDP Executive Board in decision 2006/20, which approved the policy in 2006. The review assesses the performance of the evaluation function and the extent to which the organization has responded to the requirements of the policy and identifies lessons and recommended areas for the attention of the Executive Board, UNDP senior management and the Evaluation Office. The team of consultants conducted the review, which involved interviews of UNDP staff and partners during two visits to New York headquarters and select country visits.
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Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council
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The Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council is a bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the Economic and Social Council. This issue covers the 2011 session of the Council including the organizational and substantive session. The Index is divided in two parts comprising the Subject Index and Index to Speeches. The Index is prepared by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Department of Public Information, as one of the products of the United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS).
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Least Developed Countries
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This Report reviews the LDCs' recent economic performance and examines how to enhance developmental impact of remittances and tap into the knowledge pool of its citizens abroad. Given the increasing magnitude of remittances in LDCs, the Report explores both the beneficial as well as possible adverse impacts of this type of private external flow. While remittances are the most visible effect of migration, there are other forms of Diaspora engagement within the home country such as Diaspora knowledge networks that can facilitate technological catch-up in LDCs and therefore enhance development of productive capacities. Through innovative forms of network-based industrial policy, LDCs could offset some of the adverse impacts of brain drain on their economies. The Report concludes with a policy review section containing lessons from international experiences in this area of interest to LDCs.
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Review of Maritime Transport
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More than 80 per cent of international trade in goods is carried by sea, and an even higher percentage of developing-country trade is carried in ships. This annual publication is an important source of information on this vital sector. It closely monitors developments affecting world seaborne trade, freight rates, ports, surface transport, and logistics services, as well as trends in ship ownership and control and fleet age, tonnage supply, and productivity. The Review contains information on legal and regulatory developments and includes an in depth focus annually on a selected topic.
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Report of the Secretary General on the Work of the Organization
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This report provides an account of the progress the Organization has made over the past year delivering on the eight long-term organizational priorities identified by Member States. It also highlights progress on some of the cross-cutting integrative initiatives identified in the Five-Year Action Agenda as helping the Organization to meet its mandates. All forces must be brought to bear to meet these mandates and help to address the problems we face.
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Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
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This Report will focus on patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at the national, regional and international levels. It will also share best practices and lessons learned from various initiatives and mechanisms, and give an overview of the international, national and United Nations System response to trafficking in persons.
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Building a Better Future for All: Selected Speeches of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon 2007-2012
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The United Nations works across the world for peace, sustainable development, human rights and the rule of law. This collection of speeches by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shows the breadth of those efforts – advances and struggles alike – at a time of profound transition for the human family. Since taking office in 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sought to mobilize the international community behind global solutions to urgent challenges ranging from climate change and poverty to armed conflict and the spread of deadly weapons. The goal: dignity, freedom and opportunity for all.
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Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean
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The Yearbook comprises four chapters. The first covers demographic and social indicators, reflecting special efforts to mainstream the gender perspective in statistical information. The second chapter presents economic statistics relating to trade, balance-of-payments and prices, as well as national accounts. The third chapter provides the quantitative information available on the environment. While priority is given to data from international sources, the electronic version also includes the data available and compiled by the UN on each of the countries of the region. Given the abundance of different, sometimes conflicting, data now accessible to researchers through the Internet, special attention must be paid to the data sheets on which the source of the data, their definition and coverage are specified. This information is presented in the fourth chapter, supplementing the more specific information contained in the footnotes to each of the tables of this Yearbook.
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Intellectual Property Commercialization: Policy Options and Practical Instruments
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The present Review specifically discusses intellectual property management in universities and other public research organizations, and in innovative small and medium-sized enterprises. Rather than providing a detailed analysis of legal frameworks, the Report focuses on the challenges which research organizations and SMEs face in using the intellectual property system, particularly in countries with economies in transition, and on the policy options available to support them in this.
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Yearbook of the International Law Commission
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The Yearbook of the International Law Commission contains the official records of the Commission and is an indispensable tool for the preservation of the legislative history of the documents emanating from the Commission, as well as for the teaching, study, dissemination and wider appreciation of the efforts undertaken by the Commission in the progressive development of international law and its codification. Volume I reproduces the summary records of the Commission's annual sessions.
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Building a Better Future for All: Selected Speeches of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon 2007-2012 (Hardback Edition)
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The United Nations works across the world for peace, sustainable development, human rights and the rule of law. This collection of speeches by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shows the breadth of those efforts – advances and struggles alike – at a time of profound transition for the human family. Since taking office in 2007, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sought to mobilize the international community behind global solutions to urgent challenges ranging from climate change and poverty to armed conflict and the spread of deadly weapons. The goal: dignity, freedom and opportunity for all.
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Somalia Human Development Report 2012: Empowering Youth for Peace and Development
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The new report is based on surveys conducted in more than 3,000 households in south central Somalia, Puntland and Somaliland. It reveals that although the majority of Somali youth believe they have a right to be educated (82%) and a right to decent work (71%), they feel disempowered by multiple structural barriers built into the family, institutions, local government and society at–large. The report contains a Youth Charter, developed by youth representatives from Somaliland, Puntland and south central Somalia which underlines the aspirations, perceptions and needs of young Somalis.
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Migrants and the Host Society: Partnerships for Success
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This publication includes the materials of the two-day workshop on "Migrants and the Host Society: Partnetships for Success", held in Geneva, Switzerland on 12 and 13 July 2006. It comprises two main elements. Part I contains the report of the workshop, which is based on the presentations and discussions. Part II includes the workshop agenda and background paper. Finally, two Annexes are attached, the first being an information sheet on IOM's integration activities and the second being the final list of participants attending the workshop.
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World Economic Situation and Prospects
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The World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) is the definitive report of the United Nations on the state of the world economy. WESP 2013 will highlight the continuing Euro debt crisis, the protracted jobs crisis and the possibility for the world economy to plunge back into another recession. One of the most highly anticipated economic reports from the United Nations, it is jointly produced by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the five United Nations Regional Commissions.
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Environmental Performance Reviews (by Country)
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) carries out Environmental Performance Reviews (EPR) in its member States that are not members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in order to improve their environmental management by recommending ways to achieve better policy implementation. This first EPR of Turkmenistan covers 13 issues related to policymaking, planning and implementation, the financing of environmental policies and projects and the integration of environmental concerns into economic sectors, in particular the sustainable management and protection of water resources, waste management, air pollution, forestry, biodiversity and protected areas, energy and climate change.
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State of the World Population
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Family planning is a human right. Still, 222 million women in developing countries do not have access to contraception and are at risk of unplanned pregnancy that can cause health complications and financial hardship. The State of the World Population 2012 explains why family planning is a right that reinforces other rights, such as the right to health or the right to education. The report further documents the economic and social benefits accrued to households, communities and countries when the right to family planning is exercised by women, men and young people.
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Friend or Foe? Dominant Party Systems in Southern Africa: Insights from the Developing World
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Within southern Africa, there is an observable increase in dominant party systems, in which one political party dominates over a prolonged period of time, within a democratic system with regular elections. This party system has replaced the one-party system that dominated Africa’s political landscape after the first wave of liberations in the 1950s and 1960s. This book seeks to understand this trend and its implications for southern Africa’s democracies by comparing such systems in southern Africa with others in the developing world (such as India, South Korea and Taiwan). In particular, the case of Zimbabwe stands out as a concerning example of the direction a dominant party can take: regression into authoritarianism. India, South Korea and Taiwan present alternative routes for the dominant party system. The salient question posed by this book is: Which route are Botswana, Namibia and South Africa taking? It answers by drawing conclusions to determine whether these countries are moving towards liberal democracy, authoritarianism or a road in between.
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UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
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This publication provides a comprehensive, reliable, coherent and comparable collection of statistical data. The data is relevant for the analysis of international trade, investment and development of individual countries and for economic and trade groupings. The publication presents consolidated reference statistics considered of particular importance in describing how developing countries have evolved in the context of globalization for the following subjects: international merchandise trade, export and import structure by products and by regions of origin and destination, and related concentration and diversification indices; volume and unit value indices of exports and imports, terms of trade and purchasing power indices of exports; international trade in services; commodity prices and relevant price indices; international financial data and, current accounts.
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Escaping Victimhood: Children, Youth and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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This publication draws on experiences from post-conflict environments in different parts of the world. The authors examine the proactive roles of girls and boys in promoting security for themselves and their families. The publication focuses on children's suffering and their specific vulnerabilities during and after a war. It also looks into the international legal frameworks created to protect and empower children and youth in post-conflict environments, and gives examples of initiatives to help young people escape victimhood and voicelessness. As the young post-war generation will become the next leaders, parents and teachers, ensuring children and youth’s active role in post-conflict peacebuilding today could be among the most effective means of building sustainable peace tomorrow.
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World E-Parliament Report
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This Report evaluates the progress accomplished by parliaments in their efforts to use modern technologies to strengthen their institutional role. It provides a methodology that can serve as a tool for parliaments to improve their performance.
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Economic Development in Africa Report 2012: Structural Transformation and Sustainable Development in Africa
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This report provides concrete policy recommendations for African policy makers and their development partners on how to promote sustainable structural transformation in Africa, meaning a sustainable structural transformation that integrates the relative decoupling of natural resource use and environmental impacts from the growth process. The Report also discusses why a strategy of sustainable structural transformation is important for Africa, how strategic priorities can be identified and the role of the national State and the international community in such a strategy.
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Assessing Regional Integration in Africa V: Towards an African Continental Free Trade Area
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The fifth of the series (ARIA/V) has come at a time of renewed enthusiasm for shortening the period of the vision of the Abuja Treaty. Its overall objective is to provide an analytical research publication that defines frameworks for African Governments, the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities, towards accelerating the establishment of the African Common Market through: the speedy removal of all tariff and non-tariff barriers, obstacles to free movement of people, investments and factors of production in general across Africa, and through fast-tracking the creation of an African continental Free Trade Area.
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UNCITRAL 2012 Digest of Case Law on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration
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This publication contains a presentation of case laws rendered in jurisdictions having enacted the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. The purpose of the digest is to assist in the dissemination of information on the Model Law and further promote its adoption as well as its uniform interpretation and application. In addition, the digest is meant to help judges, government officials, arbitrators, practitioners and academics use more efficiently the case law relating to the UNCITRAL text.
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European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road: ADR
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This authoritative Agreement is intended to increase the safety of international transport of dangerous goods by road. Regularly amended and updated since its entry into force, it contains the conditions under which dangerous goods may be carried internationally. This version has been prepared on the basis of amendments applicable as from 1 January 2013. It contains in particular new or revised provisions concerning chemicals under pressure, electric double layer capacitors, mercury contained in manufactured articles, dangerous goods used as a coolant or conditioner, salvage pressure receptacles, lithium batteries, dangerous goods packed in limited quantities, dangerous goods packed in minute quantities and packing instructions, as well as revised provisions for portable fire extinguishers and new restrictions in road tunnels for dangerous goods carried in limited quantities.
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