The deepening economic crisis and poor prospects for world growth were a severe setback for poverty reduction efforts, according to a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report, entitled Overcoming Human Poverty, which was released today.
Professor Amartya Sen, the Indian philosopher and economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, yesterday (14 October), said at a Headquarters press conference yesterday afternoon that globalization could be a major force for prosperity if adequately backed by good national policy.
The 1998 Least Developed Countries Report, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), was introduced at a Headquarters press briefing this morning by the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, John Ruggie.
The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia was not determined by the President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Tribunal's Prosecutor Louise Arbour said at a Headquarters briefing this afternoon.
Mikko Kuustonen, the Finnish singer and songwriter, was introduced this morning by the Deputy Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at a briefing announcing his recent appointment as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador.
The financial state of the United Nations was precarious and that forced it to resort to financial practices that were imprudent, said the Under-Secretary-General for Management, Joseph Connor, during a Headquarters press briefing today.
Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Carol Bellamy told a Headquarters briefing today that the leadership of Sierra Leone had reaffirmed full commitment to the demobilization of child combatants. They had expressed concern, however, that it was a difficult task to achieve in a war situation.
