International cooperation for the eradication of poverty in developing countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1993
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SymbolA/RES/48/184
TitleInternational cooperation for the eradication of poverty in developing countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Stresses the importance of domestic policies, including effective budgetary policies, to mobilize and allocate domestic resources for the eradication of poverty through, inter alia, the creation of employment and income-generating programmes, the implementation of food security, health, education, housing and population programmes and the strengthening of national capacity-building executive programmes; invites all countries to undertake national strategies and programmes that re, inter alia, gender sensitive, taking into account cultural, religious and social particularities, for the eradication of poverty that invovle more active participation of the targeted communities as well as the most vulnerable groups in initiating, implementing, following up and evaluating specific projects; urges the developed countries, which have reaffirmed their commitment to reach the accepted UN target of 0.7 per cent of gross national product for official development assistance, to the extent that they have not yet achieved that target, to agree to augment their aid programmes in order to reach that target as soon as possible, some developed countries having agreed to reach the target by the year 2000; other developed countries, in line with their support for reform efforts in developing countries, agree to make their best efforts to increase their level of official development assistance.
Action note1993-12-21
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 86th meeting
Meeting record
A/48/PV.86
Agenda information
A/48/251 93 International cooperation for the eradication of poverty in developing countries. POVERTY
Date[New York] : UN, 31 Mar. 1994.
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3 p.
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Adopted at the 86th plenary meeting, 21 Dec. 1993.