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By providing employment for young people, the project makes measurable impacts on poverty alleviation and the reduction of ruralurban migration, as well as channelling much needed resources to

The global financial and economic crisis may have a negative impact on educational development and provision in

A recent survey conducted by the United Nations Development Programme, in cooperation with the Government’s Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Swedish International Development

Furthermore, he was concerned that volatility in the global financial markets was transmitted into volatility in

The successive emergency appeals aim at providing employment

An international workshop organized by UNESCO brought together national officials working in areas of education and poverty and identified

While such measures should not substitute for wellplanned and managed national development strategies backed by responsive partnerships for development, they should not wait for

With regard to the labour market, the Director referred to vital policies that included: recognizing labour rights (basic floor) and a minimum wage; strengthening unionization and collective bargaining; strengthening social dialogue; providing occupational training; simplifying procedures to access formal employment; recognizing skills formally; providing small and medium-sized enterprises with support; introducing unemployment insurance; providing labour market intermediation services; advocating the employment of specific groups (such as young people and women); establishing mechanisms to reduce gender inequality in

The World Heart Federation has emerged as the leader of global efforts to control

Expressing concern that, after the First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997–2006) and six years from the 2015 target date of the Millennium Development Goals, while there has been progress in reducing poverty in some regions, this progress has been

It also may well be the case that the tightening of

Governments have a responsibility to intervene “when markets fail to

In most LDCs, UNDP’s focus is on

Thanking Governments for their pledges for core resources, he said these resources would enable UNICEF to continue to achieve results for

The food security situation in pastoral areas,

The subprogramme will work closely together with other subprogrammes and with a targeted subregional focus to incorporate multisectoral and subregional perspectives in addressing policy issues and challenges in enhancing regional financial and economic cooperation that could assist the Asia-Pacific region with increased capital availability for the development of economically viable and socially inclusive infrastructure based on public-private partnership, in addressing the challenges of countries with special needs,

This means that, beyond the need to regulate financial markets, it is essential to view international cooperation processes as a means of solving problems such as, inter alia, the underdevelopment and extreme poverty in which much of the world’s people live;

I hope, too, that the international community understands that long-term stability is far from having been achieved in Nepal and that, despite the

In focusing on absolute poverty instead and based on observations from 80 countries during the period 1980-2001, it has been shown that the comparative advantage of agriculture declined from being 2.7 times