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172: Variations in COVID strategies: Determinants and lessons

S. Nazrul Islam, Hoi Wai Jackie Cheng, Kristinn Sv. Helgason, Hiroshi Kawamura and Marcelo LaFleur

171: What does the United Nations “say” about global agenda? An exploration of trends using natural language processing for machine learning

Namsuk Kim and Marcelo LaFleur

170: How long will it take for LDCs and SIDS to recover from the impacts of COVID-19?

Namsuk Kim

169: Beyond the Business Case: The Strategic Role of the Private Sector in Transforming the Real Economy

Sumi Han

168: Exporters in Africa: What Role for Trade Costs?

Helena Afonso and Sebastián Vergara Marezco

167: The economic and political costs of population displacement and their impact on the SDGs and multilateralism

Kristinn Sv. Helgason

166: Some considerations on external audits of SDG implementation

David Le Blanc

165: A post-SDG Summit governance primer: interlinking the institutional, peace and justice dimensions of SDG16 (2016–2019)

Peride K. Blind

164: Economic properties of data and the monopolistic tendencies of data economy: policies to limit an Orwellian possibility

Hoi Wai Jackie Cheng

163: E-participation: a quick overview of recent qualitative trends

David Le Blanc

162: How relevant is governance to financing for development and partnerships?

Peride K. Blind

161: The Role of Productive and Technological Capabilities on Export Dynamics in Developing Countries

Sebastián Vergara Marezco

160: Humanitarian SDGs: Interlinking the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the Agenda for Humanity

Peride K. Blind

159: Art is long, life is short: An SDG Classification System for DESA Publications

Marcelo T. LaFleur

158: Lessons for Today from Past Periods of Rapid Technological Change

Aránzazu Guillán Montero and David Le Blanc

157: The role of external audits in enhancing transparency and accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals

Aránzazu Guillán Montero and David Le Blanc

156: The 2030 Agenda: The roadmap to GlobALLizaton

Filipa Correia, Philipp Erfruth and Julie Bryhn

155: From “Structural Change” to “Transformative Change”: Rationale and Implications

S. Nazrul Islam and Kenneth Iversen

154: A Scoping Study of PPP Guidelines

Motoko Aizawa

153: Towards a more comprehensive assessment of fiscal space

Hoi Wai Jackie Cheng and Ingo Pitterle

152: Climate Change and Social Inequality

S. Nazrul Islam and John Winkel

151: Promoting structural transformation: strategic diversification vs. laissez-faire approach

Clovis Freire

150: Economic Diversification: Explaining the pattern of diversification in the global economy and its implications for fostering diversification in poorer countries

Clovis Freire

149: Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration

David Le Blanc, Clovis Freire and Marjo Vierrosc

148: Public-Private Partnerships and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Fit for purpose?

Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury, Krishnan Sharma and Daniel Platz

147: What can Uzbekistan tell us about industrial policy that we did not already know?

Vladimir Popov and Anis Chowdhury

146: How well are the links between education and other sustainable development goals covered in UN flagship reports? A contribution to the study of the science-policy interface on education in the UN system

Katia Vladimirova and David Le Blanc

144: The Contexts of Social Inclusion

Hilary Silver

143: Inequality and the Tails: The Palma Proposition and Ratio Revisited

Alex Cobham, Luke Schlogl and Andy Sumner

142: Will Inequality Lead China to the Middle Income Trap?

S. Nazrul Islam

140: The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An Introduction and Preliminary Findings

Rahul Lahoti, Arjun Jayadev and Sanjay G. Reddy

139: Redistributive Policies for Sustainable Development: Looking at the Role of Assets and Equity

Pierre Kohler

138: Absorbing innovative financial flows: Looking at Asia

Rehman Sobhan

137: Recent Downturn in Emerging Economies and Macroeconomic Implications for Sustainable Development: A case of India

N R Bhanumurthy

136: Towards a sustainable social model: Implications for the post-2015 agenda

Nazrul Islam

134: Recent macroeconomic trends in emerging economies and implications for development - Country Study: Brazil

Eustáquio Reis

133: A comparative study of the forecasting performance of three international organizations

Pingfan Hong and Zhibo Tan

122: The international development strategy beyond 2015: taking demographic dynamics into account

Ana Cortez

121: From aid to global development policy

Jose Alonso Rodriguez

118: Building a stable and equitable global monetary system

Bilge Erten and Jose Antonio Ocampo

117: Should global goal setting continue, and how, in the post-2015 era?

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

116: Learning from the past: Which of the past/current development strategies are best suited to deal with the ‘quadruple crisis’?

Giovanni Cornia and Milica Uvalic

115: Financial sector compensation and excess risk-taking—a consideration of the issues and policy lessons

Krishnan Sharma

114: Financing small-scale infrastructure investments in developing countries

Daniel Bond, Daniel Platz and Magnus Magnusson

112: The Imprudence of Labour Market Flexibilization in a Fiscally Austere World

Alex Izurieta

111: Is the Distribution of Foreign Aid MDG-sensitive?

Degol Hailu

110: Super-cycles of commodity prices since the mid-ninteenth century

Bilge Erten

109: Beyond market access: Trade-related measures for the least developed countries. What strategy?

Ana Cortez

108: Macroeconomic Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction: An Application to Post-Conflict and Resource-Rich Countries

Degol Hailu and John Weeks

107: Food Crises and Gender Inequality

Bina Agarwal