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The Status of the Millennium Development Goals in the UNECE Region

Robineau, Patrice - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

Besides creating a growing, prosperous, and peaceful Europe, we all have an interest in ensuring that the benefits of … promoting pan-European economic integration are also emphasized. Length: 5 pages …

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Global Governance: Lessons from Europe

Lamy, Pascal - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2005

integration is used as the basis for understanding the need for global governance. European integration rests upon three necessary …

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After the Financial Crisis: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Shelburne, Robert; Trentini, Claudia - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2010

The Pan-European Region made significant progress from 1995 to 2007 in improving the economic, social, environmental and health indicators incorporated into the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, given the huge set-backs associated with the transition recession in the early 1990s and...

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The Process of European Integration and the Future of Europe

Stiglitz, Joseph - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2004

addresses the present economic and political conditions in an integrated Europe and the challenges ahead, particularly how the … macroeconomic framework in expaining the weak growth performance of Europe is explored. …

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Current Account Deficits in European Emerging Markets

Shelburne, Robert - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

Many of the emerging market economies in Europe are presently running current account deficits which are quite high … Union (EU) members of the old Europe (Greece, Portugal, and Spain), many of the EU’s new member states (largely the former … transition economies which have joined since 2004), most of those non-EU members in south-east Europe, and a number of the CIS …

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The Economic Situation and Outlook in Mid-2007 for the ECE Economies -- Europe, North America, and the CIS

Shelburne, Robert - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2007

This paper provides an assessment of the economic situation and outlook for Europe, North America and the CIS economies …

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Financing Development in the UNECE Emerging Markets

Shelburne, Robert - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

This essay discusses the challenges in financing economic development in the eastern European and CIS economies. The advantages and pitfalls of extensively relying external capital are explored.

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Towards A knowledge-Based Economy - Europe and Central Asia - Internet Development and Governance

Kapitsa, Larissa - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

The diversity and socio-economic differentiation of the real world prevents the full-scale cultivation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to the benefit of all. Furthermore, the lack of determination and political will in some countries and slowness of responses to new...

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Welfare Policies in the UNECE Region: Why so Different?

Alesina, Alberto - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2006

implications of these differences. The variations in welfare systems within western Europe -- the Nordic system, the Anglo …

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Energy Security Risks and Risks Mitigation: an Overview

Kowalski, George; Vilogorac, Sead - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008

Central to the goals of competitiveness and sustainable development is the issue of energy. Is there enough? Where will it come from? What will it costs? Is its production and use environmentally sustainable? Many of these questions are now discussed under the general topic commonly referred to...

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