Our Divisions: Financing for Sustainable Development Office
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Capacity development activities undertaken by the Office aim at enabling Member States to implement their commitments and agreements on Financing for Development, in particular in the area of domestic resource mobilization. In line with the current Capacity Development Strategy of UN DESA, which identified “Fiscal policy and international tax cooperation” as one of the priority areas, the Office is developing and implementing a programme of capacity development activities on international tax cooperation to strengthen the capacity of national tax authorities and ministries of finance to develop more effective and efficient tax systems.
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