The Technology for Development Bulletin, an educational newsletter, aims to inform the reader of global technology trends and to propose a brief outline of policy recommendations that can be pursued in the Arab region to take advantage of the significant opportunities offered by Technology and Innovation. This publication includes four sections: new technologies, technology and inclusion, technology impact and governance, and ESCWA-related activities. Each section includes a number of chapters dealing with the subject from different aspects

This study proposes an innovative research approach to capture multidimensional inequalities that remain to be addressed in SDG-10 targets and the 2030 Agenda in general. As a result of original fieldwork, the study examines the underlying inequalities experienced by three groups in Lebanon – persons with disabilities, educated youth and vulnerable women – and, through the use of radial diagrams, provides a stark visual representation of the gaps that remain to be narrowed between where people are with their lives and where they want to be.

The price statistics team at ESCWA has been working towards enhancing member states’ capacities through the development of various innovative initiatives. In its latest initiative, ESCWA’s Statistics Division developed a training course for capacity building on price statistics, focusing on the ICP, purchasing power parities (PPPs) and their various uses especially in SDG monitoring in addition to the integration between ICP and CPI.
 
The training targeted 13 national price statisticians with no prior knowledge or experience in the ICP and focused on: