Role of the Public Sector in Promoting the Economic Development of Developing Countries

A/RES/33/144View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1978–1980

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/34/137

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1980	A/RES/34/137	Role of the public sector in promoting the economic development of developing countries	710	32%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/144	Role of the public sector in promoting the economic development of developing countries	680	29%Compare
1978	A/RES/32/179	Role of the public sector in promoting the economic development of developing countries	772	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Economic Development Public Administration Public Finance Public Sector

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary- General on the role of the public sector in promoting the economic development of developing countries;117 2.

Recommends that the important role of the public sector should be taken into account in formulating proposals concerning the new international development strategy;

Endorses Economic and Social Council resolutions 1978/ 60 on the role of the public sector in promoting the economic development of developing countries and 1978/6 on public administration and finance for development in the 1980s, as well as resolution 1978/75;

Invites Governments of developing countries, if they deem it necessary, to study the feasibility of establishing national objectives for strengthening the role of the public sector and that of public administration and finance in their economic development in the

114 See A/10112, chap. IV.

115 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/33/16), annex I.

116 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1978, Supplement No. 8 (E/1978/48), chap. IV, sect. A.

111 E/1978/76.

V. 1980s, together with measures that may be required for the realization of those objectives;

Invites the regional commissions and other bodies concerned within the United Nations system to make a contribution on the basis of their experience in order to assist the Secretary-General in his study of the role of the public sector in promoting the economic and social development of developing countries;

Requests the Secretary-General to proceed with the implementation of General Assembly resolution 32/179, taking especially into account the role of the public sector in promoting the secure economic and social development of developing countries and bearing also in mind the evaluation of activities in public administration and finance;

Invites the Secretary-General to take the present resolution into account in preparing a comprehensive and detailed report in accordance with General Assembly resolution 32/179.

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