NEW YORK, 28 September -- Agriculture, often given short shrift in development planning, can play a key and even a leading role in breaking out of the vicious cycles in which many poor countries are trapped, the authors of the United Nations World Economic and Social Survey 2000 contend.
NEW YORK (DESA), 11 September -- The Government of Japan has contributed 642 million yen for financing the activities of the United Nations Centre for Regional Development during the fiscal year 20002001, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the executing agency for the project, announced today.
The Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee on the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries concluded its first session this afternoon with a commitment to involve all stakeholders in ensuring that the Conference to be held next year led to achievable and quantifiable results.
Policies and measures to help the progressive integration of poor countries into the world economy are among issues to be discussed by an intergovernmental body laying the groundwork for the Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries, to be held next year.
The first authoritative global plan to fully incorporate public and private sector viewpoints on overcoming the information and communication technology (ICT) lag found in most developing countries was issued today at United Nations Headquarters.
NEW YORK, 7 June (DESA) -- The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs will organize a forum on Women's Global Access and Leadership on Thursday, 8 June, during the special General Assembly session on Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century.
