Regional infrastructure and policy cooperation are essential for supporting economic development.

(f) Promoting regional cooperation in strengthening health and development policy and programme capability to address regional health challenges

According to the Estonian regional development strategy, the aim of the regional policy is to achieve the balance of regional development to the extent that in all the counties

Regional policy in Italy The major Italian experience of regional policy is the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, set up in the mid 1950s to foster economic development in southern Italy.

(c) Strengthen the vertical linkages between forest policy development and dialogue at the global, regional, national and local levels.

Programme F.3 Regional Policy

Regional ICT Policy and Regulation

Activities entail the implementation of an initial feasibility study of new national and regional approaches to science policy development based on existing policy frameworks and current policy planning in the Pacific member states.

Countries note the progress made by regional partnerships and the benefits that their dynamism has brought to national policy development.

A regional workshop, in which numerous development partners participated, was held in October 2004 to discuss the role of NEPAD and the development of the Policy Framework.

The development of policy consensus among developing countries at the regional level might facilitate their diffusion by creating economies of scale.

Policy Development

Current efforts to improve and strengthen policy coherence and operational coordination both at the country level (through instruments such as the Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction strategy papers) and regional level (through the regional consultation mechanism) are a welcome development.

Policy development session

The various themes of the framework included trade policy, competition policy, investment policy, tax policy, corporate governance, public governance, infrastructure development and human resources development.

Regional cooperation for development

Regional cooperation for development

Committee for Development Policy

Social policy and development

Social policy and development

Policy development and law

The United Nations regional commissions and offices, regional development banks and other regional organizations continue to contribute to regional implementation of sustainable development goals and targets.

While focused on global policy development, the programme's activities are geared to promoting mutual reinforcement between global policies and regional and national policies and actions.

The importance of regional infrastructure and policy cooperation for supporting economic development, particularly for landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, is also stressed.

While focused on global policy development, the programme's activities are geared to promoting mutual reinforcement between global policies and regional and national policies and actions.

(b) Providing substantive and effective support, including the development of policy options and analysis, to intergovernmental processes, in particular to the Commission on Sustainable Development, including regional implementation meetings to be held by the regional commissions in collaboration with the secretariat of the Commission

The Southern African Development Community continued building a regional power grid and infrastructure for regional development corridors .

Regional Policy in the United Kingdom UK regional policy was born during the economic depression of the 1930s, when heavy industries in the north were devastated.

Investments and regional development strategy

(iv) Committee for Development Policy

(p) Committee for Development Policy

Moreover, regional and sub regional development banks are particularly suited to provide regional public goods.

Consideration should be given to establishing a fund that is geared to translating advocacy and dialogue undertaken at the regional level into policy advisory work, policy development, capacity building and pilot programmes at the country level.

The evaluation therefore addressed itself to the range of UNDP work, including corporate and institutional policy its contribution to shaping national and international development policy and its regional and country programmes. Gender mainstreaming implies that UNDP should

The regional level offers an opportunity to exchange national experiences on the necessary interrelated policy issues which are of crucial importance for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Identifying how competition rules in bilateral and regional agreements might be further developed and might appropriately address developing countries' development needs, national policy objectives and capacity constraints

Subprogramme 3 Social policy and development

Subprogramme 2 Policy development and law

E. International, regional and national development agencies, specialized agencies of the United Nations, the World Bank and regional development banks

See J. Musonda, Regional competition policy for COMESA countries and implications for an FTA in 2000 , in UNCTAD, Competition policy, trade and development in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (UNCTAD ITCD CLP Misc.18), p. 103.

In Africa, the strategic partnership of UNIFEM with the Inter Governmental Authority for Development led to the endorsement of a regional gender policy by ministers of gender, and to the preparation of a draft gender policy in the Sudan.

Economic analysis and forecasting for regional development

Forum for continued policy development and dialogue

Policy Issues Related To Investment and Development

Inclusion of civil society in policy development ___________