Examination of long-term trends in economic and social development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Requests the Secretary-General to update the report on the overall socio-economic perspective of the world economy to the year 2000, in co-operation with the Secretary-General of UNCTAD, taking into account the debate in the General Assembly at its 43rd session and the earlier discussion in the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1988 as well as the views expressed by the Committee for Development Planning, so as to enhance its utility as one of the background documents for the preparation of the international development strategy for the 4th UN development decade; requests the Secretary-General to prepare a comprehensive report, on the basis of the updated overall socio-economic perspective of the world economy and in time for the middle of the decade, and to consider the preparation of a subsequent report towards the end of the decade, selecting for topic-oriented studies the areas of common concern which warrant the special attention of the international community.

Adopted without vote, 83rd meeting

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Adopted at the 83rd plenary meeting, 20 Dec. 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 43rd session, Volume 1, 20 September-22 December 1988. - A/43/49. - 1989. - p. 146. - (GAOR, 43rd sess., Suppl. no. 49).