Economic issues

8 October 1999

Press Release
GA/EF/2863

DEBT RELIEF FOR POOREST NATIONS MUST NOT COMPROMISE DEVELOPMENT AID, SECOND COMMITTEE TOLD AS IT CONSIDERS MACROECONOMIC POLICY

19991008

Members Hear Range of Views On Strategies for Relieving Indebtedness Burden

7 October 1999

Press Release
GA/EF/2860

EXPANDED ACCESS TO MARKETS COULD ELIMINATE NEED FOR MOST AID, INDONESIA SAYS AS SECOND COMMITTEE RESUMES GENERAL DEBATE

19991007

Speakers Reiterate Need For External Financing, Deplore Increasing Inequities in Global Financial and Trading System

7 October 1999

Press Release
GA/EF/2861

SPEAKERS STRESS DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL CRISES, CITE PROJECTED GROWTH-RATE SHORTFALLS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

19991007

Representative of Syria Warns That Shrinking Role of State, Triumph Of Market Economies Threaten Welfare of Population in Developing World

6 October 1999

Press Release
GA/EF/2858

SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS CALLS FOR STABILIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM, FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENTAL DIMENSION OF FINANCE

19991006

Speakers Assail High Cost of Globalization, Call for Integration of Least Developed into World Trading System

6 October 1999

Press Release
GA/EF/2859

SPEAKERS FOCUS ON AFRICA’S DECLINING SHARE OF WORLD TRADE AS SECOND COMMITTEE CONTINUES GENERAL DEBATE

19991006

The Continent’s Economic And Social Crisis Called Most Critical Challenge For Humanity As Millennium Approaches

29 September 1999

Press Release
GA/EF/2857

SECOND COMMITTEE ELECTS THREE VICE-CHAIRMEN AND RAPPORTEUR, ADOPTS PROGRAMME OF WORK

19990929

16 September 1999

Press Release
ECOSOC/5874

RENOVATED ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CHAMBER INAUGURATED

19990916

The renovated Chamber of the 54-member Economic and Social Council was opened today with a statement by its President that the Council stood ready to discharge further its responsibilities in the area of post-conflict peace building.

23 August 1999

Press Release
ECO/11
TAD/1895

NEW DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF WTO CALLS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO COLLECTIVELY PRESS FOR POSITIVE TRADE AGENDA

19990823

6 July 1999

Press Release
ECOSOC/5829

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL DISCUSSES FOREIGN DEBT AND NATURE OF POVERTY

19990706 Proposes Solutions for Problems at Macro and Micro Economic Levels

(Reissued as received.)

6 July 1999

Press Release
ECOSOC/5830

SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ARE NO LONGER OPTIONAL BUT BINDING OBLIGATION

19990706 Special Meeting of Economic and Social Council Celebrates Tenth Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

(Reissued as received.)