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At the request of the Italian Presidency of the G7, the IMF has prepared a paper on gender-budgeting as a contribution … to the G7 initiative on equality. The paper provides an overview of gender-responsive budgeting concepts and practices in … the G7 countries. It summarizes recent trends in gender equality in G7 and advanced countries, noting that while equality …
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The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium Declaration - signed by 189 countries in September 2000 - led to the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, which set clear targets for eradicating poverty and other sources...
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A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
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The global financial crisis, the most severe since the great depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears...
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focuses on seven goals that cover poverty, education, gender equality, infant and child mortality, maternal mortality …
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A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403103
equality and the empowerment of women are central to the development agenda. This is because gender equality makes good …, drawing on indicators for poverty, education, gender equality, health, and other goals. Subtitled "Confronting the Challenges … of Gender Equality and Fragile States", this year's report highlights two key thematic areas-gender equality and …
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equality and the empowerment of women are central to the development agenda. This is because gender equality makes good …, drawing on indicators for poverty, education, gender equality, health, and other goals. Subtitled ""Confronting the Challenges … of Gender Equality and Fragile States"", this year's report highlights two key thematic areas-gender equality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403104
Liberia has begun the long process of recovery and rehabilitation after the civil war. The government should expand its focus from near-term relief and reconstruction to a more comprehensive reconstruction and economic reform program. The government remains committed to its economic and...
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