Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services
Critically assessing meanings of the term “public”, this book situates the emergence and expansion of “public services” within market-based forms of production and consumption. It highlights the potential for making public services more progressive within market societies, but underscores their ongoing capture by private interests and emphasises the inherent limits of reform within a “bourgeois public sphere”.
The landscape of B2C e-commerce marketplaces in Latin America and the Caribbean
The digitization of economy, and particularly the e-commerce can encourage innovation and contribute to the process of digital transformation of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) through the implementation of digital technologies and new business models, which can improve the efficiency and productivity of companies beyond its effects on access to new markets.
Report of the First Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean
This document is the official report of the First Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Quito on 22 and 23 November 2022. The Forum was convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Opportunities for Boosting: Output, Employment and Value Chains: Economic Report on Central America, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic
This report examines the production structure of the countries of the region in order to pinpoint strategies for economic recovery, job creation, and export diversification. In this way, public policy responses will be able to take into account the specific characteristics of each sector
National DFIs: Critical allies for climate action Why and how can they be more involved in climate finance?
National development finance institutions (NDFIs) can play a vital role in promoting climate
financing and thus achieving Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) due to their
knowledge of local markets, their close connections to domestic public and private
stakeholders and their ability for local currency financing. However, currently NDFIs are not
involved as intensively in this field as they could be.
Aligning Climate Policy Engagement with Net-Zero Commitments
This paper supports asset owners in assessing the climate policy engagement
approaches of one of their most important strategic partners: their asset managers.
This paper provides key principles to evaluate and engage asset managers on both their
in-house climate policy engagement and on their portfolio stewardship activities regarding investees’ climate policy engagement.
EUROPE – AFRICA RELATIONS IN A MULTI-CRISES WORLD
This report is the outcome of a partnership initiative launched in 2022 by the European Think Tanks
Group (ETTG) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Bureau of Africa.
It follows earlier cooperation on AU-EU relations between the two organisations in 2020 and 2021.
Our partnership has aimed to assess the status of Africa-Europe relations in the follow-up of the
EU-AU Summit in Brussels.
Increasing the Alignment of Global Finance with Nature
The global economy must
deliver nature-positive, equitable
outcomes if we are to tackle
the existential challenges of
nature loss and climate change.
As nature is not material in most
financial decision-making, there
is significant misalignment of
public and private financial flows
with nature-positive outcomes.
Understanding the current
degree of alignment of global
finance, and identifying actions
needed to increase it is vital.
Greenflation: The cost of the green transition in small open economies
We propose a new model of a small open economy with efficient energy use to investigate the inflationary dynamics along
the green transition. The model incorporates the production of
green energy that substitutes exogenous brown energy sources
in energy production. Production is characterized by low substitutability between resource and traditional inputs that firms
can alter through directed input-saving technical change.
The Political Economy of Slum Growth: Evidence from Brazil
This paper provides evidence from
Brazil that local government actions can increase slum growth
without changes in poverty or immigration. Using a regression discontinuity design in close elections, I find that victories
by a center-left, pro-poor party in the 2000 municipal election
strongly increased the share of households living in slums in
2010 compared to 2000.