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The development dream
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Issue Date: Oct 15, 2002
Economics sans money drives the developing world. But the the United Nations (UN) wants it to integrate into a monetised dream. Developing countries live on the fringe economics of natural resources. Will the gross nature product be reflected in the UN's global balance sheet someday?
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color="#FF0000">UN’s goals for economic and social development |
countries’ waterbodies. If only a developing country could secure resources to maintain such meticulous records on the hundreds of rivers, estuaries, lakes and ponds...
• by whom? to measure success that world gives this world a set of |
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color="#FF0000">Targets >> Develop further an open…trading and financial system. Includes a commitment to good governance >> To make debt sustainable in the long term |
color="#FF0000">Indicator >> Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services |
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| read: opening markets to free trade of goods and free flow of investment is the way ahead for countries that desire social development read: being indebted is essential |
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color="#FF0000">Target >> Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources |
color="#FF0000">Indicators >> Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area >> Proportion of population using solid fuels |
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| read: natural resources are for export, for conversion into currency. people should be kept off them. they are commodities to be sold for others’ consumption. not resources to be utilised sustainably by people |
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The London group: an informal groups created to address selected problems in statistical methods. it provide a forum for leading countries and international organisations to decide They do what? Measure depletion of natural resources in...monetary terms |
size="1">what is measurable, what is not? |
| Note: All original text is quoted from the United Nations statistics department website: www.unstats.un.org |
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