Role of the United Nations in Promoting Development in the Context of Globalization and Interdependence

A/RES/55/212View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 100 Globalization and interdependence, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

19 versions · 2000–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/216

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/216	Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence	3,361	88%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/175	Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence	3,150	62%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/228	Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence	2,175	62%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/227	Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence	1,959	24%Compare
2016	A/RES/70/211	Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence	560	25%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

8 reports · 2003–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/94	Sustainable development and globalization : long-term trends and challenges report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/216
2024	A/79/321	Fulfilling the promise of globalization : advancing sustainable development in an interconnected world report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/175
2019	A/74/239	Fulfilling the promise of globalization : advancing sustainable development in an interconnected world report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/227
2017	A/72/301	Fulfilling the promise of globalization : advancing sustainable development in an interconnected world report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/211
2009	A/64/310	Globalization and interdependence role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence : report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/222

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Africa Bretton Woods Institutions Communication Technology Cooperation Between Organizations Development Policy Economic Policy Economies in Transition Globalization Governance Information Technology Interdependence Poverty Mitigation Private Sector Report Preparation Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that the United Nations has a central role in promoting international cooperation for development and in promoting policy coherence on global development issues, including in the context of globalization and interdependence;

Re-emphasizes the urgency of coherent action by the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization, as appropriate, along with the action of Governments, to promote equitable and broad sharing in the benefits of globalization, taking into account the specific vulnerabilities, concerns and needs of developing countries;

Calls for the effective addressing of globalization through, inter alia, making the decision-making process of international economic and financial policy more participatory, especially with regard to developing countries, the integrated consideration of trade, finance, investment, technology transfer and developmental issues by the relevant international institutions, the continuation of a wide range of reforms in the international financial system and further progress towards liberalization and enhanced market access in areas and for products of particular interest to developing countries, and, to this end, also calls for coherence and close cooperation among the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions and the World Trade Organization;

Calls upon all countries, in particular the major developed economies, to enhance coherence among their financial, investment, trade and development cooperation policies, with a view to enhancing the development prospects of developing countries;

Stresses the importance, at the national level, of maintaining sound macroeconomic policies and developing effective institutional and regulatory frameworks and human resources, so as to realize the mutually reinforcing objectives of poverty eradication and development, including through national poverty reduction strategies;

Urges the international community to promote international development cooperation aimed at enhancing growth, stability, equity and the participation of developing countries in the globalizing world economy;

Encourages developing countries to continue to pursue appropriate development policies to promote economic development and poverty eradication, and, in this regard, invites the international community to pursue strategies that support those policies through continued efforts to address the problems of market access, persistent external debt, transfer of resources, financial vulnerability and declining terms of trade;

Strongly urges the international community to take all necessary and appropriate measures, including support for structural and macroeconomic reform, foreign direct investment, enhanced official development assistance, the search for a durable solution to the external debt problem, market access, capacity-building and the dissemination of knowledge and technology, in order to achieve the sustainable development of Africa and to promote the participation of all African countries in the global economy;

Reaffirms its resolve to give greater opportunities to the private sector, non-governmental organizations and civil society in general to contribute to the realization of the goals and programmes of the United Nations and thereby to enhance opportunities and offset the negative economic and social consequences of globalization;

Welcomes the efforts of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the International Trade Centre and other multilateral and bilateral efforts to help developing countries, including landlocked developing countries, small island developing States and, in particular, African countries and the least developed countries, in addressing their specific concerns within the globalizing economy, in particular through technology-related assistance in the fields of trade and policy, in the improvement of trade efficiency and policies and trade in services, and in electronic commerce;

Stresses the need for good governance within each country as well as at the international level;

Emphasizes the importance of recognizing and addressing the specific concerns of countries with economies in transition so as to help them to benefit from globalization, with a view to their full integration into the world economy;

Emphasizes also the technology-led dimension of globalization and the need to promote universal access to knowledge and information as well as the need to strive to bridge the digital divide and to bring information and communication technologies to the service of development and all the peoples of the world so as to enable the developing countries and the countries with economies in transition to benefit effectively from globalization by full and effective integration into the emerging global information network;

Encourages the Secretary-General, in this regard, to continue the ongoing consultations on the establishment of a United Nations information and communication technologies task force, and looks forward to the submission to the Economic and Social Council of the report requested by the Council in its resolution 2000/29;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare, in close collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other relevant organizations, an analytical report on the effect of increasing linkages and interdependencies among trade, finance, knowledge, technology and investment on growth and development in the context of globalization, containing action-oriented recommendations, including on appropriate development strategies at both the national and international levels, and to submit it to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Globalization and interdependence”.

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