This report focuses on how innovation policies can expressly promote industrial development, and what lessons can be learnt from existing experiences of countries, both developing and developed. It argues that while technology and innovation are an essential component of how industries use knowledge to apply to learning, their role in fostering economic development can only be harnessed if innovation policies are clearly and coherently linked to overall industrial development goals of countries. Basing its analysis on data as well as experiences of countries, the report argues for closer coordination between innovation policies and industrial goals in order to promote technology and innovation for overall economic development.

Official Records of the Financial Report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2014 and Report of the Board of Auditors for United Nations Institute for Training and Research.

Official Records of the Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the year Ended 31 December 2014 and Report of the Board of Auditors: Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Official records of the Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the Biennium Ended 31 December 2014 and Report of the Board of Auditors: United Nations Population Fund.

International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. Official Records of the Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the year Ended 31 December 2014 and Report of the Board of Auditors.

Official Records of the Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the Biennium Ended 31 December 2014 and Report of the Board of Auditors for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994.

This official record provides the amended financial statements of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality (UNIFEM part of UN-Women) for the six months ended 31 December 2013 as an annex to the financial statements of UN-Women for the year ended 31 December 2014

Official Records of the Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the year Ended 31 December 2014 and Report of the Board of Auditors: Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme.

This official record provides the consolidated financial statements of the United Nations Development Programme for the year ended 21 December 2014.

How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace? What processes do they adopt? Is there a "spiritual" UN today? This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity of religious groups at the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Based on a three and half-year study of activities in the United Nations system, it seeks to show how "religion" operates in both visible and invisible ways. Jeremy Carrette, Hugh Miall, Verena Beittinger-Lee, Evelyn Bush and Sophie-Helene Trigeaud, explore the way "religion" becomes a "chameleon" idea, appearing and disappearing, according to the diplomatic aims and ambitions. Part 1 documents the challenges of examining religion inside the UN, Part 2 explores the processes and actions of religious NGOs - from diplomacy to prayer - and the specific platforms of intervention - from committees to networks - and Part 3 provides a series of case studies of religious NGOs, including discussion of Islam, Catholicism and Hindu and Buddhist NGOs. The study concludes by examining the place of diplomats and their views of religious NGOs and reflects on the place of "religion" in the UN today. The study shows the complexity of "religion" inside one of the most fascinating global institutions of the world today.

The publication presents the Report of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services 2015

The United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends in transnational and cultural history to explore the organization and its role in 20th- and 21st-century history. Amy Sayward looks at the origins of the U.N. before examining a range of organizations and players in the United Nations system and analysing its international work in the key arenas of diplomacy, social & economic development programs, peace-keeping, and human rights. This volume provides a concise introduction to the broad array of international work done by the United Nations, synthesizes the existing interdisciplinary literature, and highlights areas in need of further research, making it ideal for students and beginning researchers.

The United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends in transnational and cultural history to explore the organization and its role in 20th- and 21st-century history. Amy Sayward looks at the origins of the U.N. before examining a range of organizations and players in the United Nations system and analysing its international work in the key arenas of diplomacy, social & economic development programs, peace-keeping, and human rights. This volume provides a concise introduction to the broad array of international work done by the United Nations, synthesizes the existing interdisciplinary literature, and highlights areas in need of further research, making it ideal for students and beginning researchers.

Official documents of Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 2013-2014.

The publication presents the Report of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services on its Work during 2013

Official record of the Report of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme on the First and Second Regular Sessions and Annual Session of 2012

Official records of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund: Report on the First and Second Regular Sessions and Annual Session of 2013

In accordance with General Regulation VI.3 and pursuant to Executive Board decision 2000/EB.A/2, the Executive Board of the World Food Programme presents to the Economic and Social Council and the Food and Agriculture Organization Council this report on its activities in 2014 for consideration.

Part I of this report assesses trends and developments in regional trade and investment flows and policies in an attempt to provide the insights and information necessary to separate the cyclical from the structural aspects. Part II analyses the participation of Asia-Pacific economies in global and regional value chains. By observing how economies at different levels of development have integrated into supply chains at different speeds and to varying extents, we can cast light on those policies that influence and shape value chain participation, and hence influence future patterns of trade and investment. The particular features of participation in value chains also have an impact on the ability of countries to access foreign technology and build innovative capacity, which in turn influences structural change and future development options.

It is no secret that the US variously pulls away from the United Nations and embraces it as a significant venue for policy initiatives. But what explains this dramatic inconsistency? What is the logic of US multilateralism? Alynna Lyon explores the puzzling waxing and waning of US support for the UN, tracing events, actions, and decisions from the end of World War I to the present. Lyon weaves together a consideration of international context, UN institutional dynamics, and US domestic politics to conceptualize and explain the trials and tribulations of the US-UN relationship. In the process, she tells the story of the progression of the US from a country committed to internationalism to one full of dysfunctional partisanship, ideological underpinnings, and domestic power struggles that undermine its capacities to cooperate on a global scale.

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances on the Fifth session (4-15 November 2013) and the Sixth session (17-28 March 2014)

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families on the Nineteenth session (9-13 September 2013) and the Twentieth session (31-11 April 2014)

The Charter of the United Nations was signed in 1945 by 51 countries representing all continents, paving the way for the creation of the United Nations on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of Justice forms part of the Charter. The aim of the Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person; to proclaim the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The Charter is the foundation of international peace and security.

This is the official record of the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

This is the official report of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development on its eighteenth session during the period of 4-8 May 2015.