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17 June 2013 - UN Convention Against Corruption Prevention measures and criminalization and law enforecment

Two weeks ago, we began our discussion of the UN Convention Against Corruption that Member States adopted in December 2003. It is the first legally binding and comprehensive anti-corruption instrument at a global level

06-Jun-2013 - Be wary of foreign investors snapping up natural resources – UN Representative
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23-Mar-2013 - Phase one of Amerindian fund launched
The Low Carbon Development Strategy Amerindian Development Fund Project was launched on Friday by the Amerindian Affairs Ministry..
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15-Mar-2013 - Guyana up one place on human development index
Guyana has moved up one place on the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI).
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15-Mar-2013 - UNDP Report places Guyana in Medium Development Category --Govt applauds report, but recognizes much more has to be done
GUYANA has moved up one place in the Human Development Index (HDI), and is now classified as being in the Medium Human Development Category...
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15-Mar-2013 - UNDP launches Human Development Report
United Nations Resident Coordinator Khadija Musa said should economic opportunity fail to keep abreast with educational advancement, criminal activity and poverty are likely to increase.
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11-Mar-2013 - Guyana participates in sustainable development confab in Colombia
Authorities from several Latin American and Caribbean countries and international experts last week agreed on the urgency of building a global, unified, comprehensive and equitable post-2015 development agenda that is relevant to everyone.
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New Low Carbon Development Strategy to transform Guyana’s economy

Extract

"The Guyana Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Progress Report 2011 is a key monitoring instrument to access various socio-economic policies. The overall aim of the Report is to track and analyse the country's progress towards the achievement of the MDGs, but on a wider level, it serves as a report on national efforts to reduce poverty. The findings of the Report are expected to influence Government processes, decision-making and resource mobilization and allocation efforts. Furthermore, the key findings as a means to both enlighten and heighten development discussions among all national stakeholders, including Guyana development partners."

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Overview

“The advantage of economic growth is not that wealth increases happiness, but that it increases the range of human choice.”1 These words were written in 1955 by Arthur Lewis, a Caribbean scholar and Nobel laureate in economics who made an important contribution to the development debate and development policy in the Caribbean and elsewhere. It is a profoundly people-centred approach to economic growth that prefigured the later debates on human development.

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