The guide aims to enhance the capacities of policy-makers in  member states in integrating the concepts and principles of social justice into national development policies, plans and programs, and to improve the knowledge about the direct relationship between social justice and the implementation

The policy brief is based on the collective work of United Nations agencies active in the Arab region.

Beirut, 18 December 2020 (ESCWA)--The years since the global economic downturn in 2008 have seen an increase in public debt in several major economies around the world; a trend more worrying for the low and middle-income countries of the Arab region.