Policies, Cooperation in Response to Global Economic Crisis ‘Inadequate’, Assistant Secretary General Tells Social Development Commission
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The policy responses to the global financial crisis had been inadequate and characterized by double standards, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, told the Commission on Social Development as it began its discussion of policy responses on employment and the social consequences of the financial and economic crises, including its gender dimension.