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The Promise of Protection: Social Protection and Development in Asia and the Pacific
The present Report aims to contribute to the policy discourse on the direction and impact of social protection in Asia and the Pacific. While many countries of the region have some form of social protection in place, only a fraction of those who need assistance actually benefit. Still, these programmes can act as the building blocks for more comprehensive social protection systems which can meet the needs of so many more. It then promotes universal coverage as a way to most effectively and proactively impact on people's lives, and especially the most vulnerable groups in society. This Report also presents the political and economic case for social protection and the need to bring social protection into the mainstream of development policy formulation.
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Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: August 2011 ISBN: 9789211206234 Pages: 124 Price: $36.00
Securing Peace: State-building and Economic Development in Post-conflict Countries
Publication Date: June 2011 ISBN: 9789211217537 Pages: 160 Price: $20.00
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This book studies the processes which lead to the explosion of civil strife and tries to spell out the policy options available to address the challenges faced by post-conflict economies. It calls for a more integrated policy approach which can gradually repair trust in public institutions as it addresses the vulnerabilities and grievances that helped start the process. Usually, such societies do not have the luxury of meeting the goals of security, reconciliation and development in a measured or sequenced manner. To avoid an immediate return to violence they must begin the recovery process on all fronts simultaneously.
Economic and Social Studies
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011
The Report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), determining the areas where progress has been made, and those that are lagging behind. It also pinpoints the areas where accelerated efforts are needed to meet the MDGs by 2015. The Report is based on a master set of data compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Publisher: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Publication Date: June 2011 ISBN: 9780897149747 Pages: 112 Price: $17.50
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Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond
References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere”. To that distinction, on 12 January 2010, Haiti added another, when it was hit by a devastating natural disaster, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti raise itself by its bootstraps. This effort has now acquired additional urgency. Is Haiti a failed state? Does it deserve a Marshall-planlike programme? What will it take to address the Haitian predicament? In this book, some of the world’s leading experts on Haiti examine the challenges faced by the first black republic, the tasks undertaken by the United Nations, and the new role of hemispheric players like Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as that of Canada, France and the United States.
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World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation
This Survey explains why this revolution will have to be fully realized in developing countries if they are to achieve food security and rural development, minimize the damage from natural hazards and extreme disasters partly induced by climate change, and transform their economies to beat destitution and create productive jobs. Avoiding the climate change tipping point will require fundamental shifts in existing technologies to transform manufacturing, agriculture, living arrangements and infrastructure and thereby reduce greenhouse gas emissions, make more efficient use of natural resources and derivatives, create less waste, preserve biodiversity and reduce social disparities. The Survey assesses options and policies to facilitate a new technological revolution, and the challenges societies face in making it consistent with the overarching objectives of sustainable development and poverty reduction.
Guatemala is one of the countries in Latin America with the longest foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction record. This Report reviews the different policies that bear an impact on FDI in Guatemala, with a view to recommending concrete policy actions to improve the country’s attractiveness and the benefits from FDI throughout the economy and in relation with the strategy sectors identified by the government. Publisher: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Men in Families and Family Policy in a Changing World
Despite an increasing worldwide focus on the role of men in families and burgeoning research documenting men’s contribution to gender equality, the importance of their engagement for work-family balance, and the numerous positive paternal contributions to children’s development, policy-makers have been slow to recognize the need for effective public policy that is supportive of men’s involvement in their families. This publication aims to promote the knowledge of trends affecting families and increase awareness of family issues. Addressing the evolving role of men in families, it outlines the need to develop social policies supporting these new roles for the benefit of families.
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: May 2011 ISBN: 9789211303063 Pages: 208 Price: $40.00
Publisher: United Nations University (UNU) Publication Date: July 2011 ISBN: 9789280811971 Pages: 304 Price: $35.00
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Investment Policy Review: Guatemala
Publication Date: June 2011 ISBN: 9789211128161 Pages: 148 Price: $30.00
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: July 2011 ISBN: 9789211012446 Pages: 68 Price: $15.00
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State of the World Population 2010: From Conflict and Crisis to Renewal - Generations of Change In 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325, recognizing he vulnerability of
women and girls to violence during and after armed conflict, and the absence (or low level) of women’s representation in efforts to prevent war, build peace and restore devastated societies. This Report highlights how women in conflict and post-conflict situations — as well as in emergencies or protracted crises — are faring a decade later. It is constructed around interviews and reporting in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, Jordan, Liberia, the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, Timor-Leste and Uganda, which are rebuilding with limited resources. Some have experienced profound social changes as a result of war and displacement.
Publishers: United Nations and Bloomsbury Academic Publication Date: July 2011 ISBN: 9781849665407 Pages: 240 Price: $38.00
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Although Latin America and Caribbean economies are set to grow, sub-regional performance has been varied. In 2010, most economies continued to move forward on the path to recovery. This growth had positive effects on employment and private consumption. However, diverse factors came together in 2010 to create a less optimistic situation for the international economy, which, combined with diminished public spending efforts, suggest a decreased dynamism in the region. In effect, the external environment continues to affect the region’s economies. At the same time, the relative strength of emerging economies has led to an increase in the inflow of capital to the region. This situation brought currency appreciation. The challenge is to boost investments through increased national savings in order to better defend the exchange rate parities and contribute to the creation of a standard to support development in the region. Publisher: United Nations
Economic and Social Studies
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Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2010
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Poor Poverty: The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies
This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty remains stubbornly high in many parts of the world. This publication argues that the mainstream perspectives on poverty and deprivation have contributed to considerable distortion and misunderstanding and that is not unrelated to ineffectual policy perscriptions. In particular, it highlights the World Bank’s dollar-a-day measure of poverty and exposes the inadequacies of Bretton Woods-inspired poverty reduction programmes.
Publishers: United Nations and Bloomsbury Academic Publication Date: May 2011 ISBN: 9781849666183 Pages: 240 Price: $38.00
Publisher: United Nations Publication Date: July 2011 ISBN: 9789211091632 Pages: 200 Price: $65.00
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