International co-operation for the eradication of poverty in developing countries : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Urges the international community to create, as a priority, a supportive international economic environment for growth and development that will reinforce the efforts of developing countries to revitalize their development process and eradicate poverty; requests the regional commissions, in accordance with their mandates, to contribute more effectively to the strengthening of regional and subregional co-operation and to study options in order to enable them to address effectively the eradication of poverty; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its 44th session a report analysing the impact of the economic crisis in developing countries on the intensity of poverty in those countries and containing recommendations for effective international policy measures for the urgent and permanent eradication of poverty.

Adopted 128-1-21, 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).