Acceleration of the Transfer of Real Resources to Developing Countries

A/RES/33/136View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71 Acceleration and transfer of real resources to developing countries, published in 1979.

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?

6 operative paragraphs

Urges all developed countries that have not rea~hed the 0. 7 p~r cent target for official development assistance, established by the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade, to exert all their efforts in order to reach this target by the end of the Decade, and

109 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/33/15), vol. I, part two, annex I.

no A/33/301. stresses that possible measures to achieve this could include increasing annually the official development assistance budgets of donor countries by a specific percentage on a multiyear basis, setting aside at least l per cent of the annual increase in gross national product expected to accrue in donor countries to augment official development assistance flows, and the inclusion of aid volume targets in the economic planning of the donor countries;

Reaffirms that official development assistance flows should be made predictable, continuous, increasingly assured and, to the greatest possible extent, unaffected by budgetary difficulties, balance-of-payment problems or other factors of a similar nature;

Calls upon the developed countries to improve the quality of official development assistance flows by calculating their official development assistance net of amortization and interest payments, by raising the minimum grant element for qualifying for inclusion in official development assistance from the present 25 per ce~t to 50 per cent, by providing official development '.1ss1stance to the least developed countries essentially m the form of grants, by not including flows to dependent territories in their official development assistance flows, by increasing their share of untied aid and by increasing local cost financing;

Emphasizes that the assistance of the United Nations development system must be made available to t~e developing countries on a more predictable, contmuous and increasingly assured basis and that it is consequently desirable to achieve an expanding, multiyear financial basis for the programmes and funds concerned;

Invites Governments to indicate their probable voluntary contributions to the United Nations development system for a multiyear period;

Welcomes decision 25/16 of 3 July 1978,111

adopted by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme, in which the Council r~quested the ~dministrator of the Programme to contmue consultations on and examine procedures and models for achieving a more secure financial base for the P~ogrammc, including the possibility of multiyear financmg;

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