International Financial System and Development

A/RES/59/222View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 83b International financial system and development, published in 2005.

What other versions does this mandate have?

24 versions · 2003–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/122

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/122	International financial system and development	5,978	37%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/196	International financial system and development	6,920	85%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/136	International financial system and development	6,458	90%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/152	International financial system and development	5,907	79%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/192	International financial system and development	5,416	90%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

24 reports · 2003–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/322	International financial system and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/122
2025	A/80/331	International financial system and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/196
2024	A/79/130	International financial system and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/136
2023	A/78/178	International financial system and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/152
2022	A/77/224	International financial system and development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/192

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22 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;⁶

⁶A/59/218 and Corr.1.

Notes that the global economy is recovering, supported by growth in some developing countries, and that economic growth should be further strengthened and sustained, and stresses the importance of cooperative efforts by all countries and institutions to cope with the risks of financial instability and to ensure a strong and steady recovery, as a means of achieving greater financial stability, and in this regard acknowledges recent efforts at regional monetary cooperation;

Also notes the continued net outward transfer of financial resources from developing to developed countries, acknowledging the outward investment from some developing countries as an indication of their integration into the world economy, underscores the need for appropriate measures at the national and international levels to address this issue, and further notes the efforts that have been made thus far to this end and the fact that, for some developing countries, those transfers, at the present time, indicate positive developments in the trade balance, which are required, inter alia, for debt repayment and allow for the purchase of foreign assets;

Underlines the importance of promoting international financial stability and sustainable growth, and welcomes the efforts undertaken to this end by the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Forum, as well as the consideration by the International Monetary and Financial Committee of ways to sharpen tools designed to promote international financial stability and enhance crisis prevention, inter alia, through an even-handed implementation of surveillance, including at the regional level, and a sharpening of surveillance of capital markets and systemically and regionally important countries, with a view, inter alia, to the early identification of problems and risks, integrating debt sustainability analysis, the fostering of appropriate policy responses, the possible provision of financing and other instruments designed to prevent the emergence or spread of financial crises, and further improvements in the transparency of macroeconomic data and statistical information on international capital flows;

Also underlines the importance of efforts at the national level to increase resilience to financial risk, stresses in this regard the importance of better assessment of a country’s debt burden and its ability to service that debt in both crisis prevention and resolution, and welcomes the ongoing work of the International Monetary Fund on assessing debt sustainability;

Reiterates in this regard that measures to mitigate the impact of excessive volatility of short-term capital flows and to improve transparency of and information about financial flows are important and must be considered;

Notes the impact of financial crisis or risk of contagion in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, regardless of their size, and in this regard welcomes the efforts of the international financial institutions, in their support to countries, to continuously adapt their array of financial facilities and resources, drawing on a full range of policies, taking into account the effects of economic cycles, as and where appropriate, having due regard to sound fiscal management and the specific circumstances of each case, so as to prevent and respond to such crises in a timely and appropriate way;

Stresses the importance of strong domestic institutions in promoting business activities and financial stability for the achievement of growth and development, inter alia, through sound macroeconomic policies and policies aimed at strengthening the regulatory systems of the corporate, financial and banking sectors, and also stresses that international cooperation initiatives in those areas should encourage flows of capital to developing countries;

Notes that building an environment that encourages development of the domestic business sector requires that countries undertake appropriate policies to minimize the risk of and respond to external shocks and their impact, inter alia, on growth and employment, and encourages the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to take into account the specific conditions of developing countries in determining their guidance to them in this area;

Stresses the importance of advancing in respect of the efforts to reform the international financial architecture, as envisaged in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development,2 and in this regard encourages the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to continue examining the issues of the voice and effective participation of developing countries and countries with economies in transition in their decision-making processes;

Welcomes the ongoing work of the International Monetary Fund on quotas, and notes the conclusion of the Fund’s Twelfth General Review of Quotas, the report on which indicated the adequacy of the current level of Fund resources and the intention of the Executive Board, during the period of the Thirteenth General Review, to monitor closely and assess the adequacy of Fund resources, to consider measures to achieve a distribution of quotas that reflects developments in the world economy and to consider measures to strengthen the governance of the Fund;

Notes the ongoing analysis by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as mentioned in the communiqué of the Development Committee of 2 October 2004,⁷ of proposals on financing modalities to complement increased aid flows and commitments with innovative mechanisms, and their technical feasibility;

⁷See IMF Survey, vol. 33, No. 18 (11 October 2004). Also available from www.imf.org/imfsurvey.

Looks forward to further consideration of the subject of possible innovative and additional sources of financing for development from all sources, public and private, domestic and external, taking into account international efforts, contributions and discussions, within the overall framework of the follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development;

Reaffirms the need to adopt policies and undertake measures to reduce the cost of the transfer of migrant remittances to developing countries, and welcomes the efforts of Governments and stakeholders in this regard;

Emphasizes that it is essential to ensure the effective and equitable participation of developing countries in the formulation of financial standards and codes, underscores the need to ensure their implementation, on a voluntary and progressive basis, as a contribution to reducing vulnerability to financial crisis and contagion, and notes that more than one hundred countries participated or agreed to participate in a joint World Bank-International Monetary Fund financial sector assessment programme;⁸

⁸See A/59/218 and Corr.1, para. 15.

Invites the multilateral and regional development banks and development funds to continue to play a vital role in serving the development needs of developing countries and countries with economies in transition, including through coordinated action, as appropriate, and stresses that strengthened regional development banks and subregional financial institutions add flexible financial support to national and regional development efforts, thus enhancing their ownership and overall efficiency, and are an essential source of knowledge and expertise for their developing-country members;

Calls for the continued effort of the multilateral financial institutions, in providing policy advice, technical assistance and financial support to member countries, to work on the basis of nationally owned reform and development strategies, to pay due regard to the special needs and implementing capacities of developing countries and countries with economies in transition, and to minimize the negative impacts of the adjustment programmes on the vulnerable segments of society, while taking into account the importance of gender-sensitive employment and poverty eradication policies and strategies;

Stresses the need to continuously improve standards of corporate and public sector governance, including accounting, auditing and measures to ensure transparency, noting the disruptive effects of inadequate policies;

Acknowledges the ongoing work towards a more comprehensive approach to sovereign debt restructurings, supports the increasing inclusion of collective action clauses in international bond issuing, and strongly encourages leading bond issuing countries and the private sector to make substantial progress on the preparation of an effective code of conduct, bearing in mind the need not to preclude emergency financing in times of crisis, to promote fair burden-sharing and minimize moral hazard, which will engage debtors and creditors to come together to restructure unsustainable debts in a timely and efficient manner;

Welcomes the ongoing efforts, including those of the Bretton Woods institutions, to improve the assessment of debt sustainability in low- and middle-income countries through, inter alia, the development of better tools to deal with exogenous shocks and the need to take country-specific factors into account;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “International financial system and development”.

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