The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics to three economists in recognition of their work on asset prices and the behavior of markets. The three economists, Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller,…

UNCTAD Investment Policy Framework

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is actively involved with issues related to investment and enterprise development. It builds on three-and-a-half decades of experience and international expertise in research and policy analysis, fosters intergovernmental consensus-building, and provides…

The Challenge of Lifetime Income Management

Lifetime income management presents challenges at the individual, institutional and national level. At each of these three levels, the economic challenge is to generate lifetime capital and income and allocate these financial resources efficiently to meet needs at each stage…