Outflow of Capital From Developing Countries and Measurement of the Flow of Resources to Developing Countries

A/RES/2276(XXII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1968.

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8 subjects

Capital Movements Debt Restructuring Debt Servicing Financial Statistics Measurement Real Resources Transfer Reverse Transfer of Resources Statistical Methodology

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6 operative paragraphs

Urges the developed countries:

To ease the terms and conditions on which external resources are made available to developing countries, in pursuance of Economic and Social Council resolution 1183 (XLI) of 5 August 1966, so as to minimize the debt-servicing burden on the balance of payments of the developing countries;

To consider extending, ,whenever it is agreed that the need arises, easy terms and conditions to developing countries whose balance-of-payments problems and debt-servicing burden require the rescheduling or consolidation of debts ;

Requests the Secretary-General:

To include, in the regular report on the international flow of long-term capital and official donations, statistics-when these can be obtained-of reverse flows, assessing their significance in relation to total financial transfers and giving an analysis of factors a~- fecting their flows both in the countries where they originate and in the countries to which the funds are sent;

( b) To take into account, in his annual report on the international flow of long-term capital and official donations, the unanimously adopted recommendations

II Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Fortythird Session, Annexes, agenda item 5, document E/4374.

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of the group of experts on the methodological problems related to the measurement of the flow of resources to developing countries;

( c) To consult other international organizations concerned with statististics on the different forms of transfer of resources, with a view to arriving at a uniform system of statistics for these transfers ;

Further requests the Secretary-General to provide. in co-operation with the organizations concerned in the United Nations family, such assistance as developing countries may need to improve the recording of the inflow and outflow of resources.

4 December 1967.

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