development

Annan calls for greater development cooperation among poor countries

16 December 2003
A global development partnership is needed to meet the ambitious anti-poverty goals set by the United Nations, but deeper cooperation among the world's poorer nations is crucial to this effort, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.

UN official calls on G-77 to make great efforts to help world's poorest nations

16 December 2003
A senior United Nations official today urged a caucus of developing States to take various steps to help their least advantaged neighbours, including by promoting trade and investment in the world's poorest nations.

China and Africa have much to offer one another, Annan says

15 December 2003
If China helps Africa ensure food security and fight HIV/AIDS, Africa, in turn, offers China huge investment opportunities in its emerging markets and mining sectors, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.

Global economy shows increasing signs of recovery – UN survey

10 December 2003
The global economy is showing increasing signs of a strengthening recovery this year, with growth expected to strengthen further in all major regions in 2004, according to a new United Nations report.

Annan names Chowdhury chief of review conference on sustainable development

9 December 2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named Under-Secretary-General Anwarul K. Chowdhury the secretary-general of an international meeting next year to review 10 years of implementing policies to develop small island states in a sustainable way.
Kofi Annan receives gift from Mayor James K. Hahn

Annan thanks LA City Council for supporting Millennium Development Goals

3 December 2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today applauded the Los Angeles City Council’s approval of a resolution to support the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an agenda negotiated at a world summit at the UN in 2000 that includes stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS and halving extreme poverty by 2015.

Annan says progress on achieving development goals has been uneven

6 November 2003
Overall progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) “has been uneven at best,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the World Economic Development Declaration Conference today.
Annan addresses high-level meeting

Development funds moving from poor countries to rich ones, Annan says

30 October 2003
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today challenged the General Assembly to face the stark fact that, "even taking all subtlety and nuance into account," developing countries made the sixth consecutive and largest ever transfer of funds to "other countries" in 2002, a sum totalling "almost $200 billion."
James Wolfensohn

UN system leaders review development parameters of Monterrey Consensus

30 October 2003
The World Bank is concerned about the imbalances in the global system, especially in instances in which defence spending reached $800 billion, but development assistance only $56 billion, James Wolfensohn said today in the first address by a World Bank President to the United Nations General Assembly.
USG Ocampo briefs the press

General Assembly begins ministerial-level debate on financing for development

29 October 2003
The global financial system must be reformed to give fair exits from sovereign debt crises, such as Argentina's emergency in 2001, and better tax coordination worldwide to reduce tax dodging and illicit cross-border financial flows, according to a report by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to a ministerial debate on financing for development which opened today in the General Assembly.