Regional infrastructure and policy cooperation are essential for supporting economic development.

It needed to diversify its exports, retain policy space and strengthen regional cooperation to tackle its economic problems.

Specifically, economic policy should centre on regional cooperation, investment facilitation and job creation social policy should focus on citizens' needs and aspirations and sustainable development policy should seek ways to offset the cost of environmental degradation.

Economic policy

Programme F.3 Regional Policy

Regional ICT Policy and Regulation

Furthermore, in July 2004, with the sponsorship of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and ECLAC, the regional commissions organized a policy seminar in New York on regional financial arrangements.

Four years ago, Africa adopted NEPAD as a regional policy framework to guide the continent in its quest for economic prosperity and stability.

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The importance of regional infrastructure and policy cooperation for supporting economic development, particularly for landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, is also stressed.

The NEPAD policy document offers a comprehensive diagnosis and analysis of the region's economic, social and political reality and offers a credible overarching policy framework for addressing the challenges at the national, regional and continental levels.

In a sense, the economic policy space available to the PA is reduced to a one sided fiscal policy (expenditure allocation), which is less than the space available to local or regional governments in many countries.

Economic Policy Turned Inside Out

The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 2005, looks at trends in the regional economy in 2004 and the policy choices facing the region.

The subprogramme will also continue to promote policy harmonization in the context of regional integration and the wider framework of freer trade and increasing international economic integration.

It's got to reform economic policy.

Venezuela's international policy was based on a new concept of economic, financial and trade diplomacy and the introduction of regional bloc policies which defended sovereignty against hegemonistic aspirations.

The process of deeper regional integration requires the development of a regional pool of policy analysts.

Participation by regional economic integration organizations

(f) Promoting regional cooperation in strengthening health and development policy and programme capability to address regional health challenges

(ii) Four ad hoc expert group meetings on economic policy analysis and forecasting employment policies and economic development in countries including those emerging from conflict preparation of the regional Millennium Development Goals report and development in countries under crisis conditions

For India, Japan is indispensable as both an economic and a security partner. It is central to India s Look East policy, which has evolved into more of an Act East policy, whereby the original strategy s economic logic has been amplified by the larger geopolitical objective of ensuring Asian stability and a regional balance of power.

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Inter Arab, regional and international economic developments

Why? Because during conflict economic policy typically deteriorates.

14.54 In the biennium 2006 2007, capacities of regional offices will be strengthened to support regional environmental policy dialogue and coordinated policy implementation, and the delivery of UNEP technology transfer and capacity building activities at the regional, subregional and national levels.

Supporting the local private sector and pursuing international and regional economic integration were considered the most appropriate policy measures, along with the dissemination of success stories of businesses established in the country.

The project will be implemented by UNEP, in collaboration with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which will contribute by providing its expertise on policy development and global inputs on the Marrakesh process, and ECLAC, which will contribute its regional economic expertise.

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It is carrying out economic reforms and taking measures to strengthen regional economic cooperation.

The Regional Director responded that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean document on the Millennium Development Goals presented a point of departure for policy dialogue with other United Nations agencies.

To consider expanding market size and maximizing investment opportunities by creating sub regional, regional and interregional markets through bilateral, sub regional and regional economic arrangements.

822 (XXXI) Implementation of the treaty establishing the African Economic Community strengthening regional economic communities rationalization and harmonization of the activities of regional and subregional communities

Regional cooperation in the economic, social and related fields

Subprogramme 3 Economic analysis and forecasting for regional development

Article 16 bis. Participation by regional economic integration organizations

In this context, the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized regional consultative meetings on the draft convention that brought together Government and civil society representatives.

So this legacy of conflict is really bad economic policy.

The interaction between economic policy and control of market concentration

(i) Recurrent publications Global Economic Outlook (4) report of the Committee for Development Policy on its eighth and ninth sessions (2) report of the Project LINK meeting (4) World Economic Situation and Prospects (with UNCTAD and the regional commissions), 2006 and 2007 (2) World Economic and Social Survey 2006 and 2007 (2)

(ii) Technical material maintenance and regular updating of ESCWA home page on economic analysis and forecasting for regional development on the Web (2) regional economic forecasts (2)

According to the Estonian regional development strategy, the aim of the regional policy is to achieve the balance of regional development to the extent that in all the counties

Article 16 bis. Participation by regional economic integration organizations (resumed)

Ms. Lisa Dreier, Associate Director, Policy and Governance, World Economic Forum

They also discussed difficulties encountered in meeting the commitments and policy objectives of the regional strategy, and suggested policy measures to address these difficulties.