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World Public Sector Report 2025
Supreme audit institutions and the Sustainable Development GoalsThe World Public Sector Report 2025 focuses on the role of supreme audit institutions (SAIs) in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The main objectives of…
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9th Youth Forum on SDG Implementation Outcome Report
Against this backdrop and guided by the UN Youth Strategy, the United Nations Project on Governance (UNPOG), under the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (…
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UNEN Futures and Foresight Policy Brief: GOVERNANCE FUTURES
The UN Economist Network has released a new Futures and Foresight Policy Brief on Governance Futures: Key Insights and Policy Implications. This Policy Brief examines the limitations of current governance systems and proposes alternative models…
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Handbook on strengthening budget credibility through external audits – Spanish version
“Strengthening Budget Credibility through External Audits: An Auditor’s Handbook” is now available in Spanish. Published by DPIDG/UN DESA and the International Budget Partnership (IBP), the Handbook is the output of a two-year…
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World Public Sector Report 2023
Transforming institutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals after the pandemic.The World Public Sector Report 2023 examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19…
| Research Notes | Public Institutions
A Glance at Least Developed Countries’ Institutional Arrangements for SDG Implementation at the National Level, 2015-2021
This paper analyzes the development of national institutional arrangements in support of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since 2015 in the 46 Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The analysis is based on a set of…
| Research Notes | Digital Government
E-government for Resilient Governance: Opportunities and Challenges in Crises
This paper analyses how governments’ digitalization influences the resilience of governance in context of crises. The first part explores the concept of institutional resilience and draws a picture of how data and the Internet can contribute to…
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Publications in Public Administration and Development, 1992-2002
Publications in Public Administration and Development, 1992-2002
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Anti-Corruption Symposium 2001: The Role of On-line Procedures in Promoting Good Governance
Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea and nicknamed the “the Miracle of the Han River”, was one of the engines of rapid growth in one country among the “Asian Tigers”. As in many large cities, however, rapid economic growth was accompanied by…
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African Institutes of Public Administration: New Challenges, New Role, New Perspectives
The Third Pan-African Conference of Ministers of Civil Service, entitled “African Institutes of Public Administration: New Challenges, New Role, New Perspectives”, which took place in Windhoek, Namibia, on 5 and 6 February 2001, provided an…
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Publications in Public Administration and Development (1989-2000)
Publications in Public Administration and Development (1989-2000)
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Decentralization: Conditions for Success. Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
In April 1996, the United Nations General Assembly, at its resumed 50th session, adopted resolution 50/225 on Public Administration and Development. The resolution confirmed the importance of reinforcing public administration for development and…