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National development strategies : policy notes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : United Nations, 2008.Description: xxv, 349 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789211045796
  • 9211045797
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD82 .N38 2008
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Available both in print and online.
Partial contents:
Macroeconomic and growth policies: Introduction ; Macroeconomic objectives ; Fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies ; Capital market interventions and other policy options for open economics ; Conclusion : microeconomic interventions and other heterodox measures -- Financial policies: Introduction : objectives ; Need for and constraints on financial intervention ; Defining the ambit of a financial strategy ; Finance for growth through development banking ; Financial policies to promote equity and human development -- Autonomy and regulation -- On liberalizing financial systems -- Foreign savings and their implications -- Conclusions -- State-owned enterprise reform: Introduction : public investment and economic development ; Managing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) ; Managing natural resource rents -- Investment and technology policies: Introduction ; Overview : developing an investment and technology policy ; The case for investment and technology policies ; Steps in developing an investment and technology policy ; Investment and technology policy compared with good governance and investment climate reforms -- Social policy: Introduction ; Social policy in national development strategies ; Mainstreaming equity across sectors ; Universal or targeted policies? ; Speed matters : long-term policies and short-term high impact initiatives ; Selected instruments to promote inclusive societies ; International redistribution and social justices -- Trade policy: Aims and objectives ; Policy space for future national development strategies ; Tariffs and industrial policy ; Exports and poverty ; Agriculture and food security ; Trade in services and development strategies -- MNP [movement of national persons] : access to the world employment market ; Intellectual property rights for the poor -- The FTA [free trade agreement] option.
Summary: This publication draws on the experience and dialoguess of the United Nations in the economic and social areas, providing suggestions on the means to achieve at the national level, the internationally-agreed development goals synthesized in the United Nations Development Agenda.--Publisher's description.
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Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Non-fiction HD82 .N38 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 027194
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"Sales No. E.08.II.A.4"--T.p. verso.

"Economic & social affairs" - cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Macroeconomic and growth policies: Introduction ; Macroeconomic objectives ; Fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies ; Capital market interventions and other policy options for open economics ; Conclusion : microeconomic interventions and other heterodox measures -- Financial policies: Introduction : objectives ; Need for and constraints on financial intervention ; Defining the ambit of a financial strategy ; Finance for growth through development banking ; Financial policies to promote equity and human development -- Autonomy and regulation -- On liberalizing financial systems -- Foreign savings and their implications -- Conclusions -- State-owned enterprise reform: Introduction : public investment and economic development ; Managing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) ; Managing natural resource rents -- Investment and technology policies: Introduction ; Overview : developing an investment and technology policy ; The case for investment and technology policies ; Steps in developing an investment and technology policy ; Investment and technology policy compared with good governance and investment climate reforms -- Social policy: Introduction ; Social policy in national development strategies ; Mainstreaming equity across sectors ; Universal or targeted policies? ; Speed matters : long-term policies and short-term high impact initiatives ; Selected instruments to promote inclusive societies ; International redistribution and social justices -- Trade policy: Aims and objectives ; Policy space for future national development strategies ; Tariffs and industrial policy ; Exports and poverty ; Agriculture and food security ; Trade in services and development strategies -- MNP [movement of national persons] : access to the world employment market ; Intellectual property rights for the poor -- The FTA [free trade agreement] option.

This publication draws on the experience and dialoguess of the United Nations in the economic and social areas, providing suggestions on the means to achieve at the national level, the internationally-agreed development goals synthesized in the United Nations Development Agenda.--Publisher's description.

Available both in print and online.

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