RBEC Economic Governance Programme

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RBECEconomic Governance Programme

• strengthening the link between human development
  and poverty reduction

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Regional Economic Governance

• The Economic Governance team
• Main programmatic areas
• Regional dimension of economic governance
  programming

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The Ecogov Team

• Renée Friedman, PhD Senior Economist RBEC and
  CTA of Ecogov
• Sanjar Tursaliev Junior Economist
• Andrey Ivanov, PhD Human Development Advisor
• Dono Abdurazakova, PhD Gender Specialist
• Veronika Krajcirikova Programme Assistant
• Niki Beliczay Programme Associate

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Main programmatic areas

• Data for sustainable development
• Human development and human security
• Millennium Development Goals and Poverty
  Reduction Strategies
• Support for private sector development
• Reducing inequality in regional development
• Trade, trafficking and human development

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Research Project Ideas 2003-2005

• Economic Policy Institutes Network
• Goal develop economic policy institutes to build
  national capacity in CIS, SEE countries
• Links to policy institutes in EU accession
  countries (CASE, CERGE, CED, Institute for World
  Economy)
• Working papers, seminar series, workshops, forums
• TOPICS
• Rural development fiscal decentralization and
  local development trade, trafficking and human
  development gray economy and informal labor
  trade impacts on poverty natural resource
  economies energy policy impact on the poor

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Publications 2003-2005

• Human Development Report Series
• Agriculture and Rural Development in the CIS
• Transition in the CIS What went right, what went
  wrong, and where can we go from here?
• Avoiding dependency and creating security
  Vulnerable groups in Southeastern Europe
• Gender in Southeastern Europe and the CIS 10
  years after Beijing
• Human Development Handbook
• National Human Development Manual
• Transition and Development newsletter
• Journal Problems of Transition

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Training

• Understanding and developing statistics
• Transition and economic development
• A human development approach for sustainable
  growth
• Gender and change

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Data for sustainable development

• New socio-economic indicators
• Regional database management
• Development of human security indicators and
  human security monitoring tool

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Support for Private Sector Development

• Foreign direct investment
• Conferences with government, private sector,
  experts participation
• Tashkent (January), Bucharest (October)
• Small and medium-sized enterprises
• Best practices in building an entrepreneurial
  environment
• Microfinance for vulnerable groups (identifying
  and exporting best practices from EU accession
  countries)

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MDGs, PRSPs and Debt issues

• Training on MDGs for governments, NGOs and others
• Understanding MDGs, human development, and
  transition
• Costing, financing, and implementation of MDGs
• PRSPs linking the MDGs and the PRSPs
• Sub-regional workshops
• Forums with IMF and World Bank
• Research, policy advising on debt for development
  swaps

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Regional projects in Southeastern Europe

• -Economic policy institutes network
• -Data collection for vulnerable groups
• -Disaggregated data for sustainable development
• -Microfinance for vulnerable groups
• -Publications
• -Human development handbook
• -National human development report manual
• -Regional Human Development Report on gender
• -Training programmes
• -Foreign direct investment conferences/seminars

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Regional projects in CIS countries

• -Economic policy institutes network-Data
  collection for vulnerable groups-Disaggregated
  data for sustainable development
• -Microfinance for vulnerable groups-Publications
  
• -Regional human development reports Rural
  development, CIS, gender
• -Human development handbook-NHDR manual
• -Training programmes
• -FDI conferences/seminars