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Notes of the United Nations Department of Economic and
Social Affairs (UNDESA) |
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The United
Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
has just launched a series of Policy Notes to assist
policy-makers at the country level to prepare National
Development Strategies (NDSs), as called for by the
2005 UN World Summit. The Policy Notes are intended
to provide those at the country level who shape and
set policies, with a range of possible alternatives
to standard policy solutions, in order to achieve the
internationally agreed development goals (IADGs).
"Unlike the policy solutions that have prevailed
over the last twenty years, the policy notes do not
prescribe any single course of action", says Mr.
Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary General for Economic
and Social Affairs. They are intended to help countries
expand their policy space for manoeuvre in formulating
and integrating national economic, social and environmental
policies.
The six notes, commissioned by DESA, cover major areas
relevant to national development strategies: macroeconomic
and growth policy, trade policy, investment and technology
policy, financing development, social policy and state-owned
enterprise reform. The notes, which have been prepared
by experts in these fields and draw on the experience
of the United Nations in the economic and social areas,
have also been complemented by outside knowledge from
academics such as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. These
Policy Notes have been coordinated by Jomo K.S., Assistant
Secretary General for Economic Development in DESA.
The Policy Notes can be accessed from the following
link:
http://esa.un.org/techcoop/policyNotes.asp
June 30, 2007. |
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