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Reconnecting the MDGs to the development agenda: A four-pronged approach

 

Reconnecting the MDGs to the development agenda:A four-pronged approach

The MDGs have succeeded in including measures of poverty and human development in the international cooperation agenda and making a strong case for increased development assistance. However, the accompanying policy approach has been framed in terms of “human deprivation”, leaving the development challenge to be fashioned by more conventional economic thinking. The fundamental problem with this division of labour is not so much the lack of economic goals in the MDG framework as the lack of a more inclusive strategy of economic development that could integrate and support its “human development” ambitions. This policy brief highlights some key issues around which a more inclusive strategy needs to build in the run-up to 2015 and beyond.

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The Informal Economy

The sector´s Contribution to the National Accounts

Working Committee Outlines Future Actions

 

New look for National Statistical Yearbook

 

Regarding the 2007 Population Census

 

ISI Satellite Meeting on Agricultural Statistics

The 'Satellite meeting on Agricultural Statistics' will take place on 13 and 14 August at Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre in Maputo, Mozambique.

Report of the 41st Session of the UN Statistical Commission

 

Report of the 41st Session of the UN Statistical Commission

the report of the forty-first session of the Statistical Commission, held in New York from 23 to 26 February 2010. In line with its function as the apex entity of the global statistical system, the Commission adopted in this session international standards in the area of merchandise trade statistics, trade in services and environmental accounting. The Commission also discussed cutting edge statistical issues related to national quality assurance frameworks, agricultural and rural statistics, the integration of geographic and statistical information and a proposed inventory of global statistical standards.

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