EN VECON I R ONO ME N T AN ANDD SO URBAN ISSUEIE SS MIC C IAL STUD
Transition Management for Sustainable Development
Redistributing Care: The Policy Challenge
This book aims firstly to examine the implications of the idea of sustainable development for institutional and policy designs. Secondly, it aims to clarify the political, social and economic conditions for successful sustainability transitions, by means of the detailed empirical analysis of a host of challenging social experiments for sustainable development. Finally, it searches for, and formulates, a viable theory of transition management for sustainable development.
This publication offers a representative sample of the thinking developed over recent years in relation to time use, time-use measurement and related policies in Latin America. The issue of care and its importance and meaning have become part of the gender agenda in the region, especially since the tenth session of the Region Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Quito in 2007.
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Ed i t Ed by
Kazuhiro uEta yuKio adachi
March 2014 9789280812343 376pp $38.00
United Nations
April 2014 9789212210629 420pp $35.00
Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Arab Region 2012-2013
April 2014 9789211283631 112pp $25.00
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Compendium of Innovative Practices of Citizen Engagement for Public Accountability through Supreme Audit Institutions
This publication assesses the most recent economic and social developments in Arab countries, using the data that became available by the 2nd quarter of 2013. The immediate policy challenge for most of the Arab countries is to create employment without relying on an expansionary fiscal and monetary policy mix. The Survey finds that several policy options are available for this policy challenge even in the current highly uncertain situation surrounding the region’s socioeconomic development. In parallel to the specific policy proposals, the Survey emphasizes the importance of policy dialogue in the area of employment and more constructive regional integration framework on this subject.
This publication provides an overview of successful examples and innovations in the engagement of citizen in public accountability processes through Supreme Audit Institutions. The purpose of this book is to disseminate, through comparative case studies and analysis, and conceptual framework, information about innovative and successful practices. Learning more about how Supreme Audit Institutions from around the world have successfully collaborated with citizens and civil society groups in the audit of how public resources are allocated and spent can be a powerful and inspirational tool for those engaged in improving public accountability.
April 2014 9789211231953 110pp $35.00
Spring Summer 2014
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This publication is based on highlights of the discussion held by the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration, in 2013, on “The Role of Responsive and Accountable Public Governance in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Post-2015 Development Agenda,” which observed that responsive and accountable governance, including effective, responsive and accountable public administration, is key in accelerating the progress on the MDGs and in the implementation of the post-2015 development agenda. It also encompasses research and analysis of the United Nations Public Administration Country Studies on themes such as codes of conduct, information and communication technologies in the work of e-government, and citizen engagement for public policy definition and development management planning.
May 2014 9789211615753 220pp $35.00
May 2014 9789211615791 150pp $52.00
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The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012 - Applications and Extensions (SEEA Applications and Extensions) provides potential compilers and users of SEEA-based environmental-economic accounts with material to show how this information can be used in decision-making, policy review and formulation, analysis and research. This publication on SEEA Applications and Extensions provides a bridge between compilers and analysts allowing each to recognise both the potential uses and the related measurement considerations. It is a companion document to the SEEA Central Framework which was adopted as the initial international statistical standard for environmental – economic accounting in 2012.
May 2014 9789211251227 250pp $60.00
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For millions of Africans, growth is yet to translate into jobs and better living conditions. Africa’s largely commodity-driven growth has not been matched by the much needed structural change that can lead to economic transformation, employment, and reduced poverty. Market failures necessitate industrial policy interventions. Yet, in the absence of the right processes and institutions, good industrial policies will fail. Indeed, weak institutions and poor policy design have hindered industrial policy. This report gives a framework for getting the policy process right to foster industrialization. It uses 11 country case studies to assess the critical ingredients for spurring industrialization – innovative institutions, effective processes and flexible mechanisms – and structural transformation.
Compendium of Innovative E-government Practices: Volume V
Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2014
As information and communication technologies (ICTs) are dramatically changing the lives of people around the world, governments must come to grips with finding solutions that will increase public value to their citizens. This publication creates a venue for promoting innovative e-government solutions, services and products developed by public institutions across the world. It also enables South-South and North-South information-sharing of their respective experiences and innovative practices. In both cases, the focus is on hastening innovation and creating public value for the citizenry. It covers a wide range of innovative practices, such as citizens service delivery, e-participation, information access, e-health, crisis management, e-accounting, e-commerce, e-environment, gender equality, sustainable development, open government data, and so much more.
The Survey 2014 examines the region’s challenges to support its economic growth and to promote inclusive and sustainable development. Part I of the report focuses on the region’s outlook as it contends with the ongoing global economic uncertainty and assesses the region’s policy response to remaining and emerging vulnerabilities. It also examines the role of sustainable agriculture in closing the development gaps in least developed countries. A special theme is domestic resource mobilization in the region, which explores the challenges on strengthening tax revenues. Part II of the report discusses strategic approaches to strengthen regional connectivity to achieve shared prosperity, particularly the ways in which various networks facilitate trade, production networks and investment flows within the region.
United Nations
June 2014 9789211232004 240pp $50.00
The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)-Experimental Ecosystem Accounting provides a synthesis of the current knowledge in the area of ecosystem accounting. This publication on the SEEA provides a starting point for the development of ecosystem accounting at national and sub-national levels. It represents an important step forward on ecosystem accounting, providing a common set of terms, concepts, accounting principles and classifications; an integrated accounting structure of ecosystem services and ecosystem condition in both physical and monetary terms; and the recognition of spatial areas as forming the basic focus for measurement.
Economic Report on Africa 2014: Dynamic Industrialization in Africa Innovative Institutions, Effective Processes and Flexible Mechanisms
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This book provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the proceedings that take place at the annual global internet governance gatherings. It includes edited transcripts of all of the main sessions that took place during the meeting held in Baku, Azerbaidjan, and the reports of the workshops and other events that were submitted. The theme of the forum for the seventh meeting was ‘Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development’. As per standard IGF practice, the entire meeting was webcasted and the possibility of remote participation was offered, which doubled the active participation in both main sessions and workshops and other events.
May 2014 9789211231977 500pp $38.00
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System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012: Applications and Extensions
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This publication is to understand why countries in the Asia and Pacific region were significantly less affected by the global financial crisis than the world’s most advanced economies of Europe and the United States, and what are the main lessons from their experience for building resilience from future crises. The majority of the essays collected in this volume are revised and updated versions of papers presented by experts from the region at a conference organized by the Economic and Social Commission of Asia and the Pacific in Manila in September 2011.
May 2014 9789211231960 60pp $22.00
Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development
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System of Environmental-Economic Accounting: Experimental Ecosystem Accounting
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Asia-Pacific Economies after the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons Learnt and the Way Forward
May 2014 9789211206630 200pp $30.00
World Public Sector Brief 2013: Responsive and Accountable Governance for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
United Nations
June 2014 9789211206753 300pp $85.00
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Multilevel Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development
TransiTion ManageMenT for susTainable DevelopMenT