Examines some of the key policy issues that underlie Africa's domestic and external debt, and provides policy guidance on the delicate balance required between financing development alternatives and overall debt sustainability. The report analyses Africa's international debt exposure and how domestic debt is increasingly playing a role in some countries as a development finance option.

This is the flagship publication on youth issues of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. This 2015 edition provides fresh perspective and innovative ideas on civic engagement and serves as an impetus for dialogue and action. The objective is to provide a basis for policy discussions around youth civic engagement.

Provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the world's illicit drug markets. The report provides a global overview of the latest statistics, trends and developments with respect to opiates, cocaine, cannabis and synthetic drugs, and utilizes the Sustainable Development Goals framework to examine the interplay between the drugs phenomenon and the broader development context.

Demographic Yearbook 2015 is the sixty-sixth in a series published since 1948. Through the cooperation with the National Statistical Offices, official demographic statistics are compiled in the Yearbook, as available, for more than 230 countries and areas of the world up to the reference year 2015. This edition of the Yearbook contains chapters on the population size and distribution, the population of capital cities, fertility, foetal mortality, infant and maternal mortality, general mortality, nuptiality and divorce. This edition of the yearbook contains as well a table of Whipple's indices...

Through innovative analyses and systematic review of what has and has not worked, this report aims to improve our understanding of how domestic development processes interact with international security, diplomatic, humanitarian, justice, and human rights efforts to prevent conflict from becoming violent. The report identifies critical areas that countries can address to become more peaceful.

Highlights how intra-African migration is of relevance to the agenda for regional and continental integration and shows that there are still many knowledge gaps, including on the relationship between migration, economic and trade policies.

Examines the education impact of migration and displacement across all population movements: within and across borders, voluntary and forced, for employment and education. This publication also reviews progress on education in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.