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United Nations General Assembly Second Committee

Economic and Financial
   
 

The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) deals with issues relating to economic growth and development such as macroeconomic policy questions (including international trade, international financial system, debt and commodities), financing for development, sustainable development, human settlements, poverty eradication, globalization and interdependence, operational activities for development, and information and communication technologies for development.

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Year 2009 - 64th session of the General Assembly
 

Statements

Statement by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs to the Second Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 5 October 2009.

Documents for the Social Development Agenda

  • Item 57:   Eradication of poverty and other development issues:

    • A/64/133    [F]    [S]    [A]    [C]    [R]
      Report of the Secretary-General on the legal empowerment of the poor and eradication of poverty.

Draft Resolutions for the Social Development Agenda

  • Item 57:   Eradication of poverty and other development issues:

  • Item 57(a): Eradication of poverty and other development issues: implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017)

Special Events

  • Panel discussion on Legal empowerment of the poor and eradication of poverty, Friday 16 October from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Conference Room 2

    Panelists

    • Dr. Hamid Rashid, Senior Adviser and Coordinator, Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

    • Dr. Lucie White, Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

    • Mr. Thomas F. McInerney, Director of Research, Policy and Strategic Initiatives, International Development Law Organization (IDLO)

Summary of proceedings

Background document

Panelists