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Policy Briefs

 

缅北禁地DESA experts are working to help decision makers around the world navigate tough choices and to find ways to recover better from the COVID-19 crisis and prepare for complex and compounded risks in today's interconnected world.

Watch this space for the latest research, analysis and policy advice from 缅北禁地DESA, an effort to support and complement the United Nations Secretary-General’s initiatives in response to the COVID-19 crisisDecade of Action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and call by the Member States to advance Our Common Agenda.

 

 


 

Special Issue

In collaboration with the United Nations High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs

 

 
By Mariana Mazzucato
 
8 September 2023
 
There is an urgent need for channelling long-term risk-tolerant finance towards achieving the SDGs. National Development Banks (NDBs) and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) can play a crucial role in mobilizing the needed capital but only if a ‘mission-oriented’ approach is adopted to galvanize, catalyze, and crowd in substantial global public and private finance, from billions to trillions. Missions help broad SDG related challenges, like global health and climate change, turn into investment pathways where strong publicly set goals crowd in private investment. Key is to make sure that strong conditions around reciprocity determine equitable and just partnerships.
 

 

Future of the World

This series aims to provide 缅北禁地DESA’s foresight analysis to advance our preparedness for future challenges and crises, and to reduce risks and make our systems more resilient. The series is part of the Future of the World initiative launched in the fall of 2021, which will also feature online policy dialogues with the authors of the policy briefs and related experts in connection with the topics of the briefs.

 

 
 
11 March 2024
 
Progress on the SDGs requires integrated approaches operating at a systemic level that address multiple goals simultaneously. Interventions toward progress on a given target must also generate positive synergies with other targets, while resolving tradeoffs. Transformative change does not follow a linear path, and policy needs will vary across contexts and phases of transformation. Policies should respond to impediments unique to each phase – emergence, acceleration, or stabilization.

 

 
 
11 March 2024
 
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked innovation and experimentation in public institutions. Institutional and policy changes can improve Governments’ relationships with other actors and highlight opportunities to accelerate SDG progress. Renewed social contracts, built on trust, are crucial if societies are to meet today’s compounding challenges, better respond to future crises, and achieve the SDGs.

 

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Recovering better and supporting the Decade of Action (July 2020 – June 2021 Series)

 

This series features 缅北禁地DESA’s analysis and policy recommendations with the aim to recover better from the COVID-19 crisis and ensure a better and sustainable recovery to meet the promises of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

 

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SDG progress and implementation

 

 

Economic insecurity

 

 

Rural development

 
 

Data, governance and digital technologies

 
 

Sustainable financing and investment

 
 

Inclusive, sustainable and green recovery for all

 

 

 

 



Socioeconomic impact and response to COVID-19 (April – June 2020 Series)

                                               

Responding to COVID-19 and Recovering Better is a compilation volume of 缅北禁地DESA’s policy brief series released during the period of April-June, focusing on the economic and social impact of COVID-19.


It presents detailed analysis and solid evidence needed for effective decision-making on a number of critical social and economic issues. It also presents key policy recommendations to support the Secretary-General's initiatives in response to COVID-19 and help the international community to navigate the policy choices ahead. Individual policy briefs are also available here