Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 3.15
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- Sustained economic growth within the context of sustainable development is essential to eradicate poverty. Eradication of poverty will contribute to slowing population growth and to achieving early population stabilization. Investments in fields important to the eradication of poverty, such as basic education, sanitation, drinking water, housing, adequate food supply and infrastructure for rapidly growing populations, continue to strain already weak economies and limit development options. The unusually high number of young people, a consequence of high fertility rates, requires that productive jobs be created for a continually growing labour force under conditions of already widespread unemployment. The numbers of elderly requiring public support will also increase rapidly in the future. Sustained economic growth in the context of sustainable development will be necessary to accommodate those pressures.
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- International Conference on Population and Development
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Means of adoption
- Consensus
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Youth
- Year
- 1994
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (1994), para. 3.15.
- Paragraph focus
- Population, sustained economic growth and poverty
- Paragraph info
- Basis for Action
- Paragraph number
- 3.15
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