Knowledge Products

This book is the second volume of PPD Population Policy Series (first one is Population Trends and Policy Options in Selected Developing Countries, 2012). The Global Commission on Ageing in Developing Countries (GCADC) was initiated to assist the developing countries, particularly the member countries of Partners in Population and Development (PPD) to navigate the AGEING [...]

The world community will celebrate the 25th anniversary of International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in April 2019 along with celebrating of 25 years of Partners in Population and Development (PPD), an inter-governmental organisation created to implement ICPD Programme of Action in developing countries at Cairo, Egypt in 1994. The PPD through ICPD laid [...]

Recognizing the potential usefulness of such successful experiences to other countries in similar situations, PPD, with the financial support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Packard Foundation, an exercise to select and document case studies of innovative practices in population, reproductive health and development. This work was undertaken in partnership with the [...]

The devastating impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) on developing countries have tested the limits, ingenuity and flexibility of development co-operation while also uncovering best practices. This 58th edition of the Development Co-operation Report draws out early insights from leaders, OECD members, experts and civil society on the implications of coronavirus (COVID-19) for global solidarity and international [...]

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), including micro SMEs, are the bedrock of global, national, and local markets. Two in every three people works in an SME (OECD 2019).1 When disaster strikes, SMEs are hit harder, suffer longer and are slower to recover than larger businesses. If the global community is to improve the lives and livelihoods of people in emerging and [...]

COVID-19 has served as a reminder that we live in a closely interdependent world that brings opportunities but also carries dangers. It has, just as importantly, shed light on a whole series of pre-existing conditions - from heightened inequality, to unsustainable debt and rampant environmental destruction - that were left unaddressed after the Global Financial [...]

United Nations Fund for South-South Cooperation (UNFSSC) is a voluntary trust fund established in 1996 by the Member States to support South-South cooperation partnerships for the benefit of developing countries around the world. It constitutes a core element of the United Nations system support to the Member States in their strategy to engage partners and [...]

This report by OECD identifies the opportunities that Islamic finance presents for donors, as they look to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve the SDGs by 2030, Arab and OECD DAC donors need to mobilise innovative forms of financing and deliver the UN Secretary-General’s call to deepen the transformation of development finance systems. [...]

This publication by Asian Development Bank (ADB) focuses on areas within four broad themes for spurring policy efforts toward creating more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable future for Asia-Pacific economies by: (1) promoting regional public goods that are supplied by states in geographic proximity and that primarily benefit the states in the region; (2) leveraging trade [...]