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Economic Report on Africa: Capital Flows
and Development Financing in Africa
Capital flows to Africa in the form of aid, remittances and
foreign direct investment have increased considerably over the
past four years. However, they are unevenly distributed among
countries. In addition, capital flows to Africa are highly volatile
and unpredictable, increasing macroeconomic uncertainty and
undermining government’s ability to design and sustain long-term
development plans. The 2006 edition of the Report places capital
flows at the centre of the debate on development financing and
examines how external capital can help countries accelerate growth
and reduce poverty. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.II.K.3 ISBN: 9789211251036 Pages: 218 Price: $ 32.00
Economic and Social Survey of
Asia and the Pacific 006
The principal policy issues and challenges facing the region over
the next 12 months are concerned with the course of oil prices,
the threat of global external payment imbalances unwinding
precipitously, the impact of higher interest rates and the potential
for the avian influenza to develop into a human pandemic. Longer-
term issues relate to the ongoing challenge of poverty reduction,
utilizing the benefits of home remittances to simultaneously improve
social indicators and macroeconomic fundamentals, and re-
energizing the trade liberalization agenda following the Sixth World
Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, held in Hong Kong,
China, in December 2005. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.II.F.10 ISBN: 9789211204629 Pages: 248 Price: $ 75.00
Flat World, Big Gaps:
Economic Liberalization, Globalization
Poverty and Inequality
The present publication critically considers the impact of economic
liberalization and globalization on inequality and poverty. The first
half surveys the major analytical issues in the recent study of global
inequalities. The second half of the volume surveys recent inequality
trends in various parts of the world including the OECD, the USA,
Eastern Europe and the CIS economies, Latin America, the Middle
East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, India, East Asia and
China. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.IV.5 ISBN: 9788125030676 Pages: 436 Price: $ 36.95
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Funding for United Nations Development
Cooperation: Challenges and Options
This book analyzes the mobilization of resources to finance the
operational activities of the United Nations system for development
in the context of the current challenges that the international
community and the developing countries face to achieve the
objectives of the development agenda of the new millennium.
Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.05.II.A.15 ISBN: 9789211046205 Pages: 68 Price: $ 10.95
Growth with Stability:
Financing for Development in the New
International Context
The present study proposes a strategy for attaining growth
with stability based on three lines of action: strengthening the
international financial system’s ability to prevent and manage crises
and the countries’ ability to design more preventive macroeconomic
policies to back it up; picking up the pace of export development and
improving access to international financial markets; and boosting
national savings rates while furthering the countries’ financial
development so that national resources can be mobilized and
channeled into investment. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.02.II.G.20 ISBN: 9789211213485 Pages: 196 Price: $ 25.00
Housing Finance Systems for Countries in
Transition: Principles and Examples
Housing plays an important role in a country’s economy and is often
an individual’s biggest asset. The availability of housing finance is,
therefore, crucial for overall economic development as well as for
a household’s welfare and its quality of life. With the large-scale
privatization of the housing sector, a need for housing finance
systems arose in the UNECE countries with economies in transition.
While policy makers have had access to information and policy
advice on individual systems, there has so far not been a method
for comparing them that would help to determine their suitability for
a particular country. This study aims to fill this gap by offering an
in-depth analysis of the most common housing finance models in the
region. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.05.II.E.8 ISBN: 9789211169232 Pages: 96 Price: $ 25.00
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International Finance and Development
As most recent international private capital flows have been
unlikely to significantly enhance new productive investments in
the developing countries, it is necessary to design appropriate
mechanisms to ensure they contribute to development. However,
recent trends in official development financing offer some grounds
for optimism, although much more needs to be done. The present
publication offers a comprehensive survey of the major financing
issues influencing economic development since the historic
Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing
for Development in 2002. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.IV.7 ISBN: 9788125030652 Pages: 222 Price: $ 26.95
Innovations in Governance and Public
Administration: Replicating What Works
This publication sheds light on the many challenges and
opportunities of innovations in governance as a developmental
tool. The publication provides key ideas and useful tools to transfer
and adapt successful practices and innovations in governance
and public administration. By providing governments with a menu
of innovations to solve economic and social problems effectively
and with tools to adapt to their own context, the international
community can play a critical role in promoting good governance.
Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.II.H.1 ISBN: 9789211231588 Pages: 224 Price: $ 49.00
Measuring Restrictions on FDI in Services
in Developing Countries and Transition
Economies
The world economy has shifted markedly towards services. Services
are critical to the development of a competitive business sector,
however, foreign direct investment in services can generate
concerns and potential costs that have to be addressed through
appropriate policies. This study attempts to analyse the existing and
available measures of restrictions on foreign direct investment in
the services sector for developing countries.
Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.II.D.13 ISBN: 9789211127072 Pages: 54 Price: $ 15.00
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Policy Matters
Trade liberalization may well have worsened unemployment as
well as working conditions besides undermining existing productive
capacities and reducing the ‘policy space’ for developing better
and competitive new economic capacities. Meanwhile, financial
liberalization does not seem to have contributed to economic
growth while exacerbating economic volatility, instability and crises.
This publication advances the analytical debate in elaborating
relevant economic and social policies to achieve more sustainable
and equitable development in our times. Publishing Agency: United
Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.IV.6 ISBN: 97881-2503064 Pages: 368 Price: $ 29.95
Savings in Latin America after the Mid
1990s: Determinants, Constraints and
Policies
National savings and growth in Latin America have remained low
in the 1990s and 2000s. The low level of national savings rates has
forced Latin American countries to depend on foreign savings to
finance investment and growth, which compounds the challenges
for raising investment and growth prospects. This study extends
the research on savings in three different dimensions. Publishing
Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.07.II.G.13 ISBN: 9789211216226 Pages: 68 Price: $ 10.00
Trade and Development Report 006:
Global Partnership and National Policies
for Development
Since 2002, world economic expansion has had a strong positive
impact on growth and helped support progress towards the United
Nations Millennium Development Goals. However, global economic
imbalances continue to pose a risk to the outlook of the world
economy. The Trade and Development Report 2006 offers relevant
ideas and general principles for designing macroeconomic, sectoral
and trade policies that can help developing countries to succeed in
today’s global economic environment. Publishing Agency: United
Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.II.D.6 ISBN: 9789211126983 Pages: 280 Price: $ 50.00
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The New Public Finance:
Responding to Global Challenges
This publication presents a first systematic account of how
public finance has responded to the growing importance of the
many global challenges. With contributions from more than 20
eminent scholars and practitioners, the book documents a major
refurbishment of governments’ public-finance toolkit, with greater
reliance on international finance and insurance markets for risk
management and greater attention to economic rationales and
hence to public finance considerations and instruments in foreign
affairs. Publishing Agency: United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
Sales Number: E.06.III.B.27 ISBN: 9780195179972 Pages: 686 Price: $ 45.00
The Millennium Development Goals
Report 006
This report shows where we stand in 2006 in achieving the
Millennium Development Goals, six years after leaders from every
country agreed on a framework for development and time-bound
targets by which progress can be measured. The challenges
the Goals represent are staggering, but there are clear signs of
hope. The report presents the latest assessment on how far we
have come, and how far we have to go in reaching these goals,
in each of the world’s regions. Similar data will be collected and
presented each year until 2015, the target date for the Millennium
Development Goals, in an effort to give further direction and focus
to international cooperation and national action.
Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.I.18 ISBN: 9789211011326 Pages: 28 Price: $ 10.00
World Investment Report 006:
FDI from Developing and Transition
Economies - Implications for
Development (Includes CD-ROM)
The World Investment report focuses on trends in foreign direct
investment (FDI) worldwide and at the regional and country levels,
as well as emerging measures to improve FDI´s contribution to
development. This year’s Report focuses on rising investment flows
from developing and transition economies. It analyses the causes
of this rapid increase and explains who the main actors are and
what it all means for development. The Report includes a statistical
annex, which is also available on CD-ROM. Publishing Agency:
United Nations (UN)
Sales Number: E.06.II.D.11 ISBN: 9789211127034 Year: 2006 Pages: 372
Price: $ 80.00
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