Poverty Reduction And Good Governance
Subtitle: Report of the Committee for Development Policy on the Sixth Session (29 March - 4 April 2004)
Publisher: United Nations
Published: June 23, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9789211045291
Subjects: Central government policies; Economics; Social issues; Social welfare & social services; Social Policy; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; Economics - Macroeconomics; Poverty; Public Policy - Social Policy; Congresses; Developing countries; Economic assistance; Economic development projects; Government policy
First sentence: 1. The Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010 (A/CONF.191/11) calls for growth rates in the least developed countries of at least 7 per cent and investment rates of 25 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) to provide a basis for improving the economic and social conditions of the more than 600 million inhabitants of the 50 least developed countries (para. 6 of the Programme of Action).