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and concrete measures are required at all levels to enable developing countries to
eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development;
4.
Acknowledges that sustained economic growth, supported by rising
productivity and a favourable environment, including for private investment and
entrepreneurship, is necessary to eradicate poverty, achieve the internationally
agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and
realize a rise in living standards;
Reaffirms the importance of the contributions and assistance made by
5.
developing countries to the other developing countries in the context of South-South
cooperation in order to achieve development and eradicate poverty;
Recognizes that, for developing countries to reach the targets set in the
6.
context of national development strategies for the achievement of the internationally
agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, in
particular the goal on the eradication of poverty, and for such poverty eradication
strategies to be effective, it is imperative that developing countries be integrated
into the world economy and share equitably in the benefits of globalization;
Reaffirms that, within the context of overall action for the eradication of
7.
poverty, special attention should be given to the multidimensional nature of poverty
and the national and international conditions and policies that are conducive to its
eradication, fostering, inter alia, the social and economic integration of people
living in poverty and the promotion and protection of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all, including the right to development;
Global response for the eradication of poverty
8.
Stresses the importance of the follow-up to the outcomes of the
International Conference on Financing for Development and the World Summit on
Sustainable Development, and calls for the full and effective implementation of the
Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for
Development 6 and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (“Johannesburg Plan of Implementation”), 7 as well as the outcomes of
other major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social
fields;
Reaffirms that good governance at the international level is fundamental
9.
for achieving poverty eradication and sustainable development; also reaffirms that,
in order to ensure a dynamic and enabling international economic environment, it is
important to promote global economic governance through addressing the
international finance, trade, technology and investment patterns that have an impact
on the development prospects of developing countries; to that end, reiterates that the
international community should take all necessary and appropriate measures,
including ensuring support for structural and macroeconomic reform and a
comprehensive solution to the external debt problem and increasing market access
for developing countries; and also reaffirms that a universal, rule-based, open, nondiscriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system, as well as meaningful trade
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Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development, Monterrey, Mexico, 18–22 March
2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.II.A.7), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
7
Report of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August–
4 September 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.II.A.1 and corrigendum), chap. I,
resolution 2, annex.
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