This is a bi-annual report series on recent economic developments and economic policies in South Eastern Europe (SEE6: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia). The report looks at the economic performance and outlook for the SEE region and specific factors that affect the growth prospects.
Download full report: South East Europe Regular Economic Report No. 10
The six countries of South East Europe (SEE6)—Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia—must operate within a complicated global environment. Political, institutional, and policy uncertainty in advanced economies, still low commodity prices, and exceptionally low interest rates dampen global growth expectations. Growth is slow everywhere, and the European Union (EU), a major destination for SEE6 exports, this year is estimated to grow 1.9 percent, even less than last year’s 2 percent. In Europe, uncertainty has been heightened by the referendum decision in the United Kingdom to exit the EU, the ongoing crisis in Greece, pressures on Italian banks, political tensions in Turkey, and the continuing refugee crisis. Brexit has renewed the debate about the future of the EU and the potential impact on states that are on the path to accession. But SEE6 countries continue to pursue firmly their aspirations for integration with the EU, with several countries this year having opened new chapters.
This Report examines the harmful impact of inequalities on citizens, communities and countries. While there was a fivefold increase in studies of inequalities and social justice in academic publications from 1992 to 2013, the report explains that many of them pay too little attention to inequalities that go beyond income and wealth - such as health, education and genderaccording to the report. It identifies seven intersecting dimensions of inequality: economic, political, social, cultural, environmental, spatial, and knowledge-based.
Direct Link to Full 361-Page 2016 Report:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002458/245825e.pdf
Link to Summary – 18 Pages: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002459/245995e.pdf
Извор: WUNRN – 22.09.2016
GENEVA (30 August 2016) – States too often fail to uphold their obligations with regard to women and girls with disabilities, treating them or allowing them to be treated as helpless objects of pity, subjected to hostility and exclusion, instead of empowering them to enjoy their fundamental human rights and freedoms, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has said.
“Policies for women have traditionally made disability invisible, and disabilities policies have overlooked gender. But if you are a woman or a girl with disabilities, you face discrimination and barriers because you are female, because you are disabled, and because you are female and disabled,” said Committee member Theresia Degener.
To help to address this, the Committee has issued guidance for the 166 States that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on how they can promote the empowerment of women with disabilities to enable them to participate in all spheres of life on an equal basis with others, as set out in the Convention and expressly in Article 6.
The guidance, termed a General Comment, stresses that refraining from discriminatory actions is not enough. States need to empower women by “ raising their self-confidence, guaranteeing their participation, and increasing their power and authority to take decisions in all areas affecting their lives.”
By Kweilin Ellingrud, Mekala Krishnan & Anu Madgavkar
A year after the UN General Assembly vowed to achieve gender equality as part of the Sustainable Development Goals, we look at what steps need to be taken
Last year, the 193 members of the UN General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals—among them Goal Five, which aspires to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” by 2030. The ambition is inspiring, the challenge vast; gender inequality is a critical issue across the world.
Consider gender equality in work. Globally, women spend thrice the amount of time as men on unpaid care work—an economic contribution conservatively worth $10 trillion, or 13 percent of global GDP, for which they are not compensated or recognized. Turning to work that is paid and measured, women generate about 37 percent of the world’s GDP, despite being about half of the world’s total population. At current rates of progress in women rising to the C-suite, it will take more than 100 years to bridge the gender gap in the upper reaches of US corporations.
За тоа кои се плановите на Владата на РМ за 2017 година, односно за што и како Владата планира ги троши парите на граѓаните погледнете во предлог буџетот за 2017 година кој Владата го достави до Собранието.
http://www.finance.gov.mk/files/u6/Predlog-Budzet%20na%20RM%20za%202017_0.pdf
