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The great finance divide: Leaving developing countries behind

The great finance divide: Leaving developing countries behind

The great finance divide: Leaving developing countries behind

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        • 2017: Financing investment and social protection
      • Action Areas
        • Domestic public resources
          • Domestic revenue mobilization and taxation
          • Tax policy effectiveness, transparency and administration
          • Illicit financial flows
          • Return of stolen assets
          • International tax cooperation: International efforts to Combating tax avoidance and evasion
          • International tax cooperation: Combatting money laundering/terrorist financing
          • International tax cooperation: Tax treaties, voluntary agreements and tax incentives
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          • National development banks
          • Subnational urban development/planning, subnational financing
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          • The investment climate and business environment
          • Achieving financial inclusion
          • Facilitating the flow of remittances
          • Developing domestic capital markets
          • Encouraging quality direct investments
          • Sustainable investing and private sector efforts and initiatives on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors
          • Encouraging philanthropic engagement that is transparent and accountable
          • Incentivizing investment in underfunded areas, including clean and affordable energy
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          • Country allocation, levels of concessionality and graduation issues
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          • Innovative development finance
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          • Other official flows and catalysing additional resources
          • Partnerships in education
          • Partnerships in health
          • South-South and triangular cooperation
        • International trade as an engine for development
          • Special and differential treatment/least developed countries
          • Agriculture and fisheries
          • Access to affordable medicines
          • Progress on implementation of the Bali and Nairobi outcomes
          • Trade negotiations, WTO accessions, trade policy reviews and trade monitoring reports
          • Trade and the sustainable development goals
          • Trade Finance
          • Aid for Trade
          • Trade facilitation
          • Development at the local level & the domestic enabling environment for trade
          • Coherence among bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements
          • Trade and investment agreements
          • Gender/women as producers and traders
          • The role of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
          • United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
          • Illegal wildlife trade/fishing/logging/mining
        • Debt and debt sustainability
          • Maintaining debt sustainability and improving debt sustainability assessments
          • Improving public debt management
          • Towards responsible borrowing and lending
          • Innovative instruments for managing debt burdens
          • Improving debt data and reporting
          • Debt crisis resolution: Actions by official creditors
          • Additional mechanisms, including involving private creditors
          • Legislative efforts to address non-cooperative minority creditors
          • Strengthening national legislation to address domestic sovereign debt
        • Addressing systemic issues
          • Strengthening global governance
          • Improving cooperation, coordination and policy coherence
          • Enhancing global macroeconomic stability with sustainable development
          • Shaping financial market regulation for sustainable development
          • Promoting safe migration
          • Combating transnational crime
        • Science, technology, innovation and capacity-building
          • Promoting information and communication technology, access to technology for all and social innovation
          • Developing national policy frameworks for science, technology and innovation
          • Creating a more enabling environment for science, technology and innovation
          • National level institutions and mechanisms to strengthen science, technology and innovation
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          • Actions within the United Nations or by the United Nations system
          • Capacity building
          • New technologies and financing for development
        • Data, monitoring and follow-up
          • Data availability (including disaggregation), adequacy and standardization
          • Data on cross border financing and domestic resource mobilization
          • Development of specific measures and tools
          • Transparency and needs assessment
          • Efforts to strengthen statistical capacities
        • Cross-cutting issues
          • Delivering social protection and essential public services
          • Ending hunger and malnutrition
          • Closing the infrastructure gap
          • Promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization
          • Generating full and productive employment for all
          • Protecting ecosystems
          • Promoting peaceful and inclusive societies
          • Gender equality and women's empowerment
          • Investing in children and youth
          • Addressing the diverse needs and challenges faced by countries in special situations
          • Global partnership
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    • Integrated National Financing Frameworks
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