In order to assist countries in this task, UNDP and DESA have jointly commissioned six "guidance notes" for policy-makers and policy-shapers both in the government and civil society, in "macroeconomic and growth policy", "trade policy", "investment and technology policy" (industrial policy), "financing development", "public investment management" (alternatives to privatization) and "social policy".
I am pleased to share with you the latest drafts of these notes which represent work in progress, at the following Internet web forum: http://esaconf.un.org/~ndsnet.
We would very much appreciate your views on the guidance notes by 5 July, which you should post directly in the respective e-folder ("conference") in the above forum.
We encourage you to share this note with colleagues who may be interested in commenting on them. We would particularly appreciate additional case studies as well as relevant reference material (including web addresses), especially for key policy suggestions as well as policy analysis contrary to the conventional wisdom.
We intend to customize and translate the guidance notes into French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian, and would greatly appreciate contacting groups willing and able to undertake this task competently and speedily. Customization here refers to our intention to amend these guidance notes for different linguistic groups, e.g. to use more relevant examples, for instance to better address public investment management issues in transition economies in contrast to other developing countries.