Many development policies are designed for sub-national level seek to cut across sectoral and thematic lines. This edition of D&T provides a survey of the practical issues that arise in this context with special focus on UNDP’s local development programmes in Europe and Central Asia.

This issue of Development and Transition is devoted to questions of ‘borders’ in Europe and Central Asia, and the geographic and spatial dimensions of the region’s development challenges.

This issue of Development and Transition is devoted to the social inclusion paradigm and related analysis of social policy reform in the transition and developing economies of Europe and Central Asia.

This issue marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of communism and of UNDP’s first Human Development Report.

The focus of this issue is the socio-economic dimensions of the global economic crisis in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

State reform in Europe and the CIS amid a global crisis

This issue explores the links between food prices and global economic trends on the one hand, and poverty reduction and sustainable rural development on the other.