This book points to some key lessons that developing countries should draw from the crisis experience:  There is widespread awareness of a growing wedge between financial-sector growth and the real economy in many countries, which calls for a profound rethinking of past approaches to financial liberalization.  In the same way as the roles of business and the State need to be rebalance

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, presented a report titled "Agroecology and the right to food"  to the 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council on 8 March 2011, in Geneva, Switzerland.

The UNCTAD published "The Least Developed Countries Report 2010" which, among other issues, highlights the vulnerability of LDCs to climate impacts.

The Trade and Development Report 2010 focuses on the need to make employment creation a priority in economic policy. Unemployment is the most pressing social and economic problem of our time, not least because, especially in developing countries, it is closely related to poverty.