In progress at UNHQ

Economic issues


ECO/25
15/10/2002
Press Release
ECO/25


UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT OFFICE LAUNCHES INTERNET PORTAL FROM SAP CORPORATION


Powerful Technology Tool Is First of Its Kind for UN System


NEW YORK, 15 October -– The Global Compact Office today announced the launch of a powerful Internet portal designed to promote online learning, dialogue and collaboration among global actors dedicated to advancing good corporate citizenship and responsible globalization.

GA/EF/2999
02/10/2002
Press Release
GA/EF/2999


Fifty-seventh General Assembly

Second Committee

6th Meeting (AM)


NOBEL LAUREATE HIGHLIGHTS TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION


IN BRIEFING TO SECOND COMMITTEE


The past year had shown how the positive and negative sides of globalization could affect the entire world, especially poorer countries, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning.