New research on women's empowerment and development.

As world leaders meet in New York this week to review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, new research by the OECD Development Centre finds that ongoing gender inequality continues to hamper progress on all the goals, not just MDG 3.

Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), the research shows that looking at women's control over resources, their level of decision-making power in the family and household, and their degree of control over their own physical security can shed light on the bottlenecks that are holding back progress across the targets.
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A critical choice for African governments

With five years left to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target date and with the rate of progress on most of the goals sluggish, it is unlikely that they will be attained. African governments, supported by international donors, must step up efforts to accelerate progress. However, African governments must also be willing to make a difficult choice. In the context of time constraints and limited financial and human resources, they must choose between aiming to achieve all the goals by the target date or to reach a few goals that they consider most critical for their long-term development.
Read more about the MDG's on the African Economic Outlook 2010 .

Support for regional economic integration in Africa runs high amongst the continent’s international development partners and African elites. Read this paper here.

Discussions on how best to exit from global imbalances to create a more balanced world economy have ignored the impact on poor countries of proposals to redress these imbalances. This paper aims at filling that gap.

23Presentation of Perspectives on Global Development 2010: Shifting Wealth with the Global Development Network. New Delhi, india. Contact.

29Presentation of Perspectives on Global Development 2010: Shifting Wealth, in association with InWEnt. Berlin, Germany. Contact.

13Presentation of Perspectives on Global Development 2010: Shifting Wealth at The Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland. Contact.

9Launch of the Southeast Asian Economic Outlook 2010: Rebalancing Growth, organised jointly with the OECD Tokyo Centre Contact.