"ECONOMIC POLICY"

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva offered words of support to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his first visit to the Fund in Washington, DC. IMF

The Management Segment of ECOSOC will take place on 25-26 July 2023. The programme of the Management Segment meetings is structured around action that ECOSOC is expected to take on economic, social, environmental, health and related matters, including by recommendation of its subsidiary and related bodies.

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Central Africa and the activities of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (S/2023/389) 

In the first-ever report of its kind, the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has outlined a bold new path to reorient economies to deliver what matters - health for all. WHO

The 2023 ECOSOC Financing for Development (FfD) Forum will provide a platform for inclusive, multi-stakeholder dialogue to address the current global challenges and advance policies for financing long-term sustainable development priorities, in line with its mandate laid out in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. UNIFEED

At the Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Doha, Qatar, a series of roundtable discussions on Tuesday saw global leaders dove into climate change. UNIFEED

On Gender Day at COP27, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said, “Women and girls are essential, effective and powerful leaders to address the climate crisis. But they remain largely undervalued and underestimated.” She reiterated, “there's a very simple and effective solution – put women and girls in the lead.” UNIFEED / FILE

President of the United States Joseph Biden said, “the United States of America will meet our emissions targets by 2030.” UNIFEED

Adopting annual resolution, delegates in General Assembly urge immediate repeal of embargo on Cuba, especially amid mounting global food, fuel crises.

In a speech ahead of the IMF-World Bank Group Annual Meetings titled “The Crisis Facing Development” at Stanford University, World Bank Group President David Malpass warned that a series of harsh events and unprecedented macroeconomic policies are combining to throw development into crisis. WORLD BANK