Development Pact: limits of financing proposals

03/02/2003

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Working Group on the Right to Development
3 February – 14 February 2003

[Excerpt from the statement]

How can we explain the fact that not all developed countries are fulfilling their commitment to provide 0.7% of their gross national product in official development assistance to developing countries? How can we explain that international financial institutions have failed in various development projects and that developing countries are collapsing under the weight of debt and suffering from deteriorating terms of trade?

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