Role of the United Nations in the Early Identification, Analysis and Forecasting of World Economic Developments

E/RES/1990/52View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 2General discussion of international economic and social policy, including regional and sectoral developments, published in 1990.

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What subjects does this mandate have?

9 topics

Coordination Within UN System Databases Development Research Economic Analysis Economic Development Economic Forecasts Economic Surveys Economic Trends Focal Points

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs

Commends the Secretary-General for the survey of activities to improve the work of the United Nations on the early identification, analysis and forecasting of world economic development;

Agrees that, in order to improve analytical and forecasting activities on a co-ordinated basis, United Nations bodies and organizations, within available resources, should:

Interact more closely by sharing common analytical data bases and on-line access to one another’s modelling environments through the use of advanced communication facilities, appropriately designed user interfaces, improved documentation and, if appropriate, special training in the use of these analytical tools;

Adjust their existing modelling frameworks to incorporate the impact of future change, thus enabling the international community to explore possible long-term trends and options for world socio-economic developments;

Utilize to the fullest extent possible the capacities of the United Nations University and its World Institute for Development Economics Research and the United Nations research institutes engaged in the study of emerging economic and social developments;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, to designate the Task Force on Long-term Development Objectives of the Administrative Committee on Coordination as the focal point for the mutual exchange among agencies of assessments of prospective developments in the economic and social fields in order to improve existing mechanisms for disseminating socioeconomic forecasts and projections in a comprehensive and readily accessible form;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit periodically to the Economic and Social Council brief information on emerging trends and problems in the world economy as a part of his note on the state of the world economy, and to continue to analyse emerging economic and social issues and problems of global significance in periodic reports, including the world economic surveys and the regional surveys and on the overall socioeconomic perspective to the year 2000.

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