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THE INEQUALITY PREDICAMENT
During the 2005 World Summit,
world leaders devoted a special session to financing for
development, emphasizing the urgent need to go beyond words to lift
hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned that "an
enormous backlog of deprivation" remained, requiring more and better
aid, trade policies that give a fair chance to developing countries, more
investment in the world's poorest countries, and opening up institutions
to allow the developing world to have a greater voice.
Below are UN Chronicle articles on financing for development and the impact of
economic inequality, as well as links to related UN websites on these issues.
The Inequality Predicament (WebArticle December, 2005)
By Jomo
K. Sundaram
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2005/webArticles/121205_inequality.html
Financing for Development (Issue 2, 2003)
By Poul Nielson
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/issue2/0203p66.html
Global Development with Globalization: From Words to Reality (Issue 3,
2002)
By Tarja Halonen, President
of the Republic of Finland
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p5_guest_column.html
DevelopmentWatch: Bridging Interests, Bridging
Peoples (Issue 2, 2002)
By Hilary French
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p50_development_watch.html
A Revitalized Economic and Social Council after Monterrey (Issue 2, 2002)
Chronicle Interview with Ivan Simonovic
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue2/0202p14_chronicle_interview.html
A ‘Monterrey Consensus’ Might Replace the Washington Consensus (Issue 1,
2002)
By Matthias Georg Wabl
http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue1/0102p17.html
LINKS TO RELATED RESOURCES AT THE
UNITED NATIONS
World Summit Special Session Devoted to Financing for Development (UN News
Centre)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/storyAr.asp?NewsID=15804&Cr=world&Cr1=summit&Kw1=special&Kw2=session&Kw3=development
Financing for Development (UN
DESA)
http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/
United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
http://www.un.org/docs/ecosoc
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
http://www.undp.org
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
http://www.unctad.org
UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
http://www.uncdf.org
United Nations Global Compact
http://www.unglobalcompact.org
United Nations University (UNU)
http://www.unu.edu/dev.html
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
http://www.imf.org
The World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org
World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org
WIDER
http://www.wider.unu.edu/welcome.htm
UN Works
http://www.un.org/works/development/development5.html
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