Produced by the United Nations Secretariat's Department of Economic and Social Affairs, this annual report is their "flagship publication" on major social and economic development issues; dedicated for the year of 2012 to investigating "Innovative Sources of Development Finance," or forms of financing directly supporting achievement of international development goals and provisioning of global public goods. The mechanisms examined by the survey are all characterized by official sector involvement of public sector resources; international cooperation and cross-border transfer of resources to developing countries; and innovative approaches to types of resource, methods of resource collection, or governance structures. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)