In progress at UNHQ

Economic issues


ECO/78
28/2/2005
Press Release
ECO/78

28 FEBRUARY 2005 OFFICIALLY PROCLAIMED CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY DAY IN UNITED STATES


NEW YORK, 28 February (United Nations Fund for International Partnerships) -- To recognize and promote the tremendous philanthropic work of corporations in communities around the world, New York Governor Pataki, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and US Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans proclaimed 28 February 2005 as “Corporate Philanthropy Day”.

ECOSOC/6144
04/02/2005
Press Release
ECOSOC/6144

Economic and Social Council

2005 Organizational Session

2nd Meeting (PM)


Recovery in world economic growth in 2004 tempered by continuing

 

global trade imbalances, oil price uncertainties, ecosoc told


In Organizational Meeting, Council Approves Agenda for 2005 Session;

Considers NGO Status, Reports on Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, Among Other Matters

ECO/77
25/01/2005
Press Release
ECO/77

UN Report Says Strong global growth in 2005 Depends

 

on how dollar, global imbalances unwind

 


NEW YORK, 25 January (UN Department of Public Information) -- Global imbalances, and the United States trade deficit, in particular, will not be corrected by a rapidly falling US dollar, contrary to many expectations, the United Nations warns today, in an otherwise upbeat assessment of the world economy at the beginning of 2005.

GA/EF/3102
7/12/2004
Press Release
GA/EF/3102

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

38th Meeting (PM)


text approved in second committee stresses debt relief role in freeing resources


for poverty eradication, economic growth, sustainable development


Draft Resolution on External Debt,

Six Others, Oral Decision Win Consensus Approval by Delegates