Acceleration of the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries

A/RES/32/181View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71 Acceleration of the transfer of real resources to developing countries, published in 1978.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1976–1980

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/34/189

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/34/189	Acceleration of the transfer of real resources to developing countries	944	25%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/136	Acceleration of the transfer of real resources to developing countries	770	28%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/181	Acceleration of the transfer of real resources to developing countries	693	15%Compare
1976	A/RES/3489(XXX)	Acceleration of the transfer of real resources to developing countries	475	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Development Assistance Real Resources Transfer

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-Genera1144 submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 31/174;

Calls upan the developed countries to implement the agreed provisions regarding the volume and terms of flows of real resources to developing countries contained in Trade and Development Board resolution 150 (XVI);

Urges developed countries to increase substantially and effectively their official development assistance, in accordance with the commitments made at the C?n~erence on International Economic Co-operation, w1thm the framework of an equitable sharing of their

vol. II, annex J.

143 See A/31/478/Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1, sect. III.B.

144 A/321149 and Corr.1 and 2.

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efforts and pursuant to thc agreement of the General Assembly at its seventh special session and the International Development Strategy far the Second United Nations Development Decade, which envisage the attainment of thc O. 7 per cent official development assistance target by the end of the Decade, having in mind the form in which agreement was reached;

Further urges developed countries to implement the commitments made at the Conference on Intcrnational Economic Co-operation aimed at increasing their flows of official development assistance on both a bilateral and multilateral basis and at improving the terms of official development assistance flows in accordance with methods to be determined by each developed donar country and, in this regard, reiterates the following suggestions, made at the Conference on International Economic Co-operation to increase official development assistance flows:

To augment annually their official development assistance budgets by a specific percentage on a multiycar basis;

To set aside at Jeast 1 per cent of their annual ( b) gross national product increase expected to accrue to be devoted to augment official development assistancc flows;

To includc aid volume targets in their economic planning;

( d) To undertake long-range planning of aid budgets;

Requests developed countrics to take the appropriate measures to increase their flows of conccssional devclopment finance on a more continuous and predictable basis, bearing in mind thc measures set out in the report of the Secretary-Gencral;144 6.

Requests the Secretary-Gencral of the Unitcd Nations Confercncc on Trade and Development to consider thc question of the transfer of real resources to developing countries with due priority and to submit a progrcss rcport, together with comments of the Trade and Devclopmcnt Board, to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session;

. Reque~ts the Secr~tary-General to review progrcss m the 1mplemcntat10n of thc present resolution an_d to ~eport t~ereon to thc General Assembly at its tlmty-third scss10n undcr the item entitled "Acceleration of the transfer of real resources to developing countries".

V. 142 Ibid., Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/31/15),

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