During the 2005 World Summit, world leaders devoted a special session to financing for development, emphasizing the urgent need to go beyond words to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned that "an enormous backlog of deprivation" remained, requiring more and better aid, trade policies that give a fair chance to developing countries, more investment in the world's poorest countries, and opening up institutions to allow the developing world to have a greater voice.
Below are UN Chronicle articles on financing for development and the impact of economic inequality, as well as links to related UN websites on these issues.
The Inequality Predicament
LINKS TO RELATED RESOURCES AT THE UNITED NATIONS
>> World Summit Special Session Devoted to Financing for Development (UN News Centre)
>> Financing for Development (UN DESA)
>> United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
>> United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
>> United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
>> UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
>> United Nations Global Compact
>> United Nations University (UNU)
>> International Monetary Fund (IMF)
>> The World Bank
>> World Trade Organization
>> WIDER
>> UN Works
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