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This policy brief is part of the United Nations Development Account tranche 13 project: Strengthening Social Protection for Pandemic Response, in particular its workstream on strengthening care policies with a gender lens with the participation of UN regional commissions and cooperating partners,
… (International Labour Organization 2020c). 3 United Nations Statistics Division Time use data portal … important sectors of the economy such as food, retail and transportation or public infrastructure such as energy or …
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Reporting on Forests and Sustainable Forest Management in the Caucasus and Central Asia – Focus on Criteria and Indicators provides an overview of the status and developments in reporting on forests and sustainable forest management in the Caucasus and Central Asia. This reporting involves looking
… data collection prevail. Available data and forest- related statistics are often out of date and/or of insufficient … are carried out at the appropriate time. The lack of transport and communication vehicles hampered their …
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The population of the UNECE region is ageing: one in four people will be 65 years old or above by 2050 compared to one in six today. Population ageing has social and economic implications for which societies need to prepare. This requires a coordinated, whole-of-government and whole-of-society
… especially women, live alone.11 According to the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, on average 86.8 … recent work by the Titchfield Group on Ageing-related Statistics and Age- disaggregated Data.39 National … of different age groups, including older persons. In 2019, Statistics Canada launched a Senior’s portal on its website, …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have negatively affected economic development in UNECE member States, significantly disrupting international trade, investment and cooperation. Because of their geographical location and development stage, these shocks have hit especially hard in
… make up most of the EESC economies. For example, higher transport costs and challenging transit conditions hampered … the increase in commodity prices, difficulties in the transport of goods, the lack of working capital, the … room for improvement. According to the latest national statistics databases across the sub-region, no more than …
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Which users may use the water of a lake, river or other source? For what purposes, in what quantity and of what quality? Where and when?
These are the questions answered by ‘water allocation’ which is the process and/or outcome of determining how different stakeholders use water. With growing water
… water supply, wetlands, freshwater fisheries or sediment transport to low-lying delta regions can thus be … and Saudi Arabia, supplies water through the Disi water transport project (350 km) to Amman and other governorates … Frenken and Cecilia Spottorno, “Disambiguation of water use statistics”, 23 September 2010 (FAO). 94 See Treaty Between …
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This publication is intended to assist stakeholders in the forestry sector to successfully navigate the transition to a forest sector that is fully engaged in the green economy. New and increasing opportunities for providing forest-based services and products, growing business and revenue as well
… 41st session of the Joint UNECE/FAO Working Party on Forest Statistics, Economics and Management which took place in … consistency with definitions used by other sectors, by statistical offices and organizations, the Guidelines adhere …
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The UNECE Strategy for ESD is a policy tool that helps the countries of the region to introduce and promote ESD in national formal, non-formal and informal education in their respective countries. It aims at developing policy, regulatory and operational frameworks to support ESD, equipping
… sectors, the health sector, the private sector, industry, transport and agriculture, trade and labour unions, the mass … as public administration, the private sector, industry, transport and agriculture. The development of new knowledge … suitable for assembling, compil- ing and presenting statistics of education both within individual countries and …
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The Report presents a thematic regional analysis of unpaid work of women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) and the resulting empowerment women gain when their responsibility for such work is reduced. The report concludes with policy recommendations that prioritize the importance of unpaid
… and Development SDG Sustainable Development Goal SORS Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia TJS Tajikistani … and assessing their capacity to produce and use the statistics needed to monitor SDG progress and …
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25 years of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
… role in disseminating information about the long-range transport of air pollutants. An outstanding example of this … policy makers increases if input data reflect national statistics to the maximum extent possible without …
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This handbook covers the key steps and considerations to set up, run, and evaluate business incubation programmes. Section 1 outlines the defining characteristics of BIs and their effectiveness in transition economies. Section 2 describes the stages of business incubator creation, namely: BI
… place alongside other essential hard infrastructure (e.g. transport links and ICT) and Figure 0.2 · Gross expenditure … of Rassakovi; TP of the State University of construction, transport and architecture; TP of Technical University of … 12.7 billion tenge while Wealth-X World Ultra Wealth Report statistics (2018) show that approximately 12 thousand people …
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Application of UNFC to Nuclear Fuel Resources - Selected Case Studies (ECE ENERGY SERIES No. 46) (December 2015)
ECE/ENERGY/104
This publication includes eight case studies that demonstrate the classification
… monazite-rich ores (ancient beach sands); fourth, trucks transported the ores to the physical beneficiation plant … minerals. 20 3. Reclamation was performed concomitantly, transporting the waste materials from the concentrations … http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1042/. [51] National Bureau of Statistics of China (2010). China statistical yearbook, …
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This publication guides policymakers in the design of regulatory systems that result in an efficient, effective and transparent management of risks.
Recent years have been marked by many catastrophic events both natural and man-made. Close interconnections mean that the impact of these crises has
… rate risks were the highest in the hospitality/leisure and transport sectors, although they appeared to be relatively … risks. Companies in the manufacturing, retail/wholesale and transport sectors were the most concerned about the impact … Carlo simulation (page 73), FN curves (page 79), Bayesian statistics and Bayes Nets (page 76), human reliability …
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Innovation – or the systematic experimentation with new ideas – is essential for the sustained economic growth and enhanced competitiveness of the seven countries of the United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA), i.e., Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
… UN-ECE Transformative Innovation Network Eurostat European Statistical Office, European Union FDI Foreign direct … official quality certificate. 9 WIPO Intellectual Property Statistics Data Centre, https://www3.wipo.int/ Part 1 NEW … set of indicators that measures the quality of trade and transport-related infrastructure, efficient customs …
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Redesigning the Uranium Resource Pathway: Application of the United Nations Framework Classification for Resources for Planning and Implementing Sustainable Uranium Projects (ECE ENERGY SERIES No. 57) (August 2019)
The adoption of the
… crisis caused by the use of hydrocarbon fuels, whether for transportation, cooking or heating Consequent benefits to … INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY, UNITED NATIONAL STATISTICS DIVISION, WORLD BANK GROUP AND WORLD HEALTH …
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This publication is a guidance document for establishing Geneva UN Charter Centres of Excellence to implement the Geneva UN Charter on Sustainable Housing. It provides guidelines for the mode of work of the Centres and the organization of communication between the Centres, the Housing and Land
… of multifamily housing, promote integrated public transportation and facilitate the use of clean vehicles in … between member States; make these data and national statistics publicly available in order to support …
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In many countries, companies involved in international trade must prepare and submit large volumes of information and documents to governmental authorities to comply with import, export and transit-related regulatory requirements. Often, this information and documentation must be submitted to
… and support women’s engagement in international trade and transport facilitation. This Recommendation encourages … improved efficiency in resource allocation and better trade statistics. For the national economy, fewer opportunities …
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This Recovery Action Plan shows that appropriate interventions can simultaneously have health, safety and other socioeconomic benefits. The twin goals of increased pandemic resilience, and the achievement of the SDGs can be advanced simultaneously. Additionally, a country’s disaster preparedness
… limited water supply and sanitation services, inadequate transport, unregistered residents, inadequate housing with … demographic information with a wide variety of health statistics for residents including gender, age …
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The multifaceted requirements of sustainable development are primarily dependent on the optimal and responsible use of natural resources. A new paradigm of optimising resource efficiency and progressing towards a circular economy is required to realise the need for balanced development of natural
… able to evaluate all available materials in an economical transport radius against societal needs and production … defined as “too complex for analysis and too organized for statistics”.61 60 Taleb, N (2007) The Black Swan: The Impact …
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This study on railway reform in the ECE Region looks at the history of railway reform within its member States and looks at how it has been implemented through a number of examples, highlighting that railway reform across the ECE region has taken different forms in terms of institutional structure
… with the seventy-first session of the Working Party on Rail Transport in November 2017, as well as speakers at previous … classified as a private company in the UK National Accounts statistics. Following a change in its statistical approach, …
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Innovation is the key driver of economic growth and development in the medium to long term. It can be defined as the process of introducing new products, services and production processes into the market place and to create new profitable enterprises and higher-paying jobs on this basis. A well-
… use of patents as a tool of firm strategy.23 Patent filing statistics bear this out,24 but it is conceivable that this … property rights”, Working Paper No. 122, 2000, Ottawa, Statistics Canada; Arora, A., Ceccagnoli, M. and Cohen, W. … Patent Protection, 1978-2002. Review of Economics and Statistics. 89(3): 436-453. 31 Greenhalgh, C. and M. Rogers, …