Promoting investments for sustainable development
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28. Calls upon development partners to continue to support efforts to
strengthen policy frameworks to incentivize finance for productive investment,
including building capacity to access available financing, particularly in the least
developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States
and African countries, and taking into account the specific challenges faced by
middle-income countries;
29. Emphasizes the need for technical assistance and capacity-building
support for investment promotion and developing project pipelines and bankable
projects, in particular for developing countries;
30. Calls upon the United Nations system and all relevant stakeholders to
support the capacity-building of developing countries in their efforts to close the
Sustainable Development Goals investment gaps, especially at the country
programme level, on the use of public finance to leverage private investment for
projects benefiting sustainable development;
31. Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the secretariat of the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to inform the General
Assembly at its seventy-fifth session of the implementation of the present resolution,
based on their ongoing research, through a dedicated section of the World Investment
Report, with a special focus on the gaps and challenges faced and the progress made
in promoting investments for sustainable development as well as concrete
recommendations for the advancement of investment for the implementation of the
2030 Agenda, and looks forward to the continuing consideration of these issues in the
forthcoming reports of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development;
32. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fifth session,
under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, a sub-item entitled
“Promoting investments for sustainable development”.
52nd plenary meeting
19 December 2019
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