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| 28 February 2019 |
Policy Options for Promoting Green Technologies in the Arab Region |
This report provides an overview of public policies that can be considered by Arab governments to promote green technologies while reducing the risk for businesses and industry and attracting investments at the same time. The report also focuses on the tools, regulations and policies necessary to create an enabling environment. The report presents best practices, and providing a pathway for other countries in the Arab region to follow. |
| 28 February 2019 |
Dissemination and use of population and housing census data: Emerging approaches and lessons learned |
This publication aims to shed light on the most important methods and means of disseminating data on population and housing censuses and to indicate the types of products needed by decision and policy makers. |
| 28 February 2019 |
Undertaking Population and Housing Census Register-based and combined methodologies |
This publication aims to facilitate the use of administrative registers in the 2020 census round (and later rounds) in the Arab region. |
| 1 March 2019 |
Capacity Development Workshop on Methods to Cost Violence Against Women |
Capitalizing on the importance of costing VAW and the momentum that ESCWA has created in this area, ESCWA in partnership with Westminster Foundation and the Coalition of Women MPs from Arab Countries to Combat VAW, held a two-day advanced capacity development workshop on 27-28 March 2019 at the Gefinor Rotana Hotel in Beirut. |
| 1 March 2019 |
Cultural icon Nidale El-Achkar at ESCWA on International Women’s Day |
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Cultural icon Nidale El-Achkar at ESCWA on International Women’s Day with immersive art exhibition by ALBA students |
| 1 March 2019 |
Rethinking inequality in Arab States |
Beirut, 20 February 2019 (ESCWA)--Work is underway to issue a report on ‘Rethinking Inequality in Arab States’. Regional and global experts discussed the findings of the report, prepared jointly by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Economic Research Forum (ERF). |
| 4 March 2019 |
Sub-Regional Meeting for the computation of HCPI results for non-GCC member countries |
The regional International Comparison Program (ICP) team will conduct a workshop for the computation of the Harmonized Consumer Price Index (HCPI). |
| 4 March 2019 |
Regional Meeting for the Development of PPPs under the framework of the ICP in Western Asia |
Given the important uses of purchasing power parities (PPPs) in the formulation of economic policies and in monitoring Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Western Asia has been working towards the regular production of PPPs by constructing a continuous annual PPP time series and establishing the International Comparison Program (ICP) as a permanent element within the regular statistical work programs, an initiative which has granted the region a leading position within the global ICP community. |
| 4 March 2019 |
Regional launch of global awareness campaign for the good treatment of children with disabilities |
Regional launch of global awareness campaign for the good treatment of children with disabilities Beirut, Lebanon, 7 March 2019 |
| 5 March 2019 |
ESCWA News, 18-22 February |
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