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External sources (not reviewed)

Women who are educated tend to have children later and to have fewer of them, and they are more likely to invest their income in the health

The plan is designed to respond to the Government’s national and international priorities, which are reflected in national policy documents,

17.34 The subprogramme will place emphasis on the following areas of work: (a) the implementation of social protection systems based on financially sustainable mechanisms and integral solidarity frameworks; (b) the efficient use of public resources to implement broad-based policies with emphasis on the employability of family members of working age; (c) social institution-building to guide

The Board addressed several other cross-cutting issues during the reporting period, including the United Nations system’s contribution to the Economic and Social Council, system-wide coherence,

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 Agency, found that Chin State remains the poorest State among 14 regions and States in Myanmar, with 73.3 per cent of the people below the poverty line, while Kayah State had a poverty rate of 11.4 per

We reject techno-fixes like genetically engineered food and geo-engineering, intensive industrial agriculture and market-based mechanisms like the Clean Development

The international community should not rely on per capita GNI or

Recalling its resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992, by which it declared 17 October the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, and its resolution 62/205 of 19

The study, which is before the Commission at its forty-third session (A/CN.9/698), provides an overview of the issues relating to the regulatory and legal framework of microfinance, including information

To delete "processing separately the cases of" and substitute with "reviewing the policy on"; to delete "the general CSSA cases, as well as relaxing the assets limit for elderly CSSA applicants, so as to benefit more elderly persons"; to delete "(b) maintaining the existing application mechanism for the" and substitute with "completing the review on"; to add "expeditiously" after "old age allowance"; to delete "increasing the rate of the allowance to an appropriate level and relaxing the absence rule on the allowance received by the elderly settling in their hometown" and substitute with "so as to benefit more

In this regard, the Special Committee commends the efforts to find innovative approaches to addressing the new and emerging challenges faced by peacekeeping operations, in order to support the national implementation of peace processes, build trust, contribute to the creation of a secure environment and help build the foundation for durable

Another Member said that he would be holding discussions with the representative of UNIDO concerning other low-GWP alternatives that were becoming available and which might be of use in

When crises and other factors weaken young women’s capacity and undermine their social and economic

The development of human resources is a key

In Mali, where a national consultation on the same theme was held in June 2006, three pilot

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fifth session

With a similar focus on employment and decent work, the system has come

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session

In the framework of implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, Haiti was focusing on three mechanisms for getting young people more

During times of financial and economic crisis, households often adopt coping strategies, such as making changes in household expenditure patterns; however, these can negatively influence education, health and