First biennial review of social and economic developments in ECAFE developing countries during the Second United Nations Development Decade

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Development Decade ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
Nations Development

Evironmental Considerations in Development Finance

1972 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Development Decade ◽  
Current Concern ◽  
Preparatory Committee ◽  
Development Objectives ◽  
Nations Development

The current concern with the human environment, which has given rise, in part, to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in 1972, comes at a time when the energies, efforts, and resources of the developing countries are being harnessed as never before to achieve their respective development objectives. The compelling urgency of the third world's development efforts found endorsement in the proposals for the Second United Nations Development Decade (DD II). While to a large extent the concern with environmental issues has arisen out of the problems experienced by the industrially advanced countries, the developing countries are not unconcerned with or even immune from these problems. It was with this general thinking in mind that the Preparatory Committee for the Second United Nations Development Decade unanimously decided to include in the strategy for the decade the following statement which was accepted by the General Assembly: “Governments will intensify national and international efforts to arrest the deterioration of the human environment and to take measures towards its improvement and to promote activities that will help to maintain the ecological balance on which human survival depends.” The General Assembly in a recent resolution on the matter of the human environment further affirmed that environmental policies should be considered in the context of economic and social development, with account taken of the special needs of development in developing countries.

Forging Partnerships to Provide Computer Literacy in Swaziland

2008 ◽  
pp. 2394-2400
Author(s):  
C. M. Magagula
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Young Children ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Computer Literacy ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Global Population

The challenges facing the world, especially developing countries like Swaziland, are many and varied. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimates that over two billion people, out of a global population of six billion, do not have access to education. The majority of these people are found in developing countries. As many as 113 million children do not attend school. More than one billion people still live on less than US$1 a day and lack access to safe drinking water. More than two billion people in the world in developing countries in particular, lack sanitation. Every year, nearly 11 million young children die before their fifth birthday, mainly from preventable illnesses. The risk of dying in childbirth in developing countries is one in 48 (UNDP, 2003). In most developing countries, especially in remote areas, the situation is exacerbated by lack of electricity.

A Fresh Look at the Local Remedies Rule

1967 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 142-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan L. Head
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technical Training ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Large Share ◽  
National Planning ◽  
Development Decade ◽  
Overseas Investment ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Economic Objective

The 1960’s have been designated by the General Assembly as “United Nations Development Decade.” The main economic objective for the decade is the creation of conditions in which the national incomes of the developing countries will increase by 5 per cent yearly by 1970, and will continue to increase at the same rate thereafter. The means by which this objective is being pursued are many; among others are national planning, technical training and capital assistance, by both multilateral and bilateral agencies. Successful as these public sector assistance schemes have been, however, it is now recognized that an increasingly large share of responsibility must be borne by the private sector of the economies of the developed nations by means of overseas investment and international trade.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS IN DISSEMINATING PARLIAMENTARY INFORMATION IN ZIMBABWE: CONTRIBUTIONS AND CHALLENGES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-105
Author(s):  
Isaiah Munyoro ◽  
Archie L Dick
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
United Nations Development Programme ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
International Network ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development

United Nations agencies and civil society organisations (CSOs) are working as development partners (DPs) with parliaments across the globe. They are engaged in activities to strengthen parliaments in both developed and developing countries. Data from a study that evaluated the performance of Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Constituency Information Centres (PCICs) showed that DPs play important roles in disseminating parliamentary information to constituents. This article analyses the contributions by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), and the challenges they face in Zimbabwe.

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