Yet, recent developments have been particularly hostile to developing countries.

Business is good for development and development is good for business.

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There was also a contradiction between the proposed activities of research and analysis which could impact negatively on certain countries apos right to development.

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8. The Group is of the view that narrowing the focus on development activities should not affect negatively the capacity of developing countries to pursue their development in accordance with their national development plans and priorities.

Rehabilitation and development, however, cannot run smoothly without peace.

There was no way to talk about sustainable development without making the multilateral trade system the key vehicle for mobilizing the development resources needed by the developing countries.

They do not foster a rights based approach to development.

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Adverse developments in the South worry the population of the North.

That undermines political stability as well as economic and social development and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.

Expenditure on relief activities should not have a negative impact on development programmes.

It firmly believed, however, that there could be no doubt that the right to development per se was a human right, in that every individual had the right to enjoy the fruits of development.

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Utilization of the Development Account

(a) Implementation in countries ranked unfavourably in the Human Development Index

Recalling that the Declaration on the Right to DevelopmentResolution 41 128, annex. confirmed that the right to development is an inalienable human right and that equality of opportunity for development is a prerogative both of nations and of individuals who make up nations,

We must therefore spare no effort to ensure that the latest Doha development round concludes on terms favourable to developing countries like Belize.

As stated in the Declaration on the Right to Development,Resolution 41 128, annex.

The transfer of technologies that benefit the peaceful development of countries must not be banned.

However, several delegations suggested that the international environment has not been in favour of development in recent years.

76. Developing countries had also suffered from unfavourable terms in relation to finance.

77. Developing countries had also had to face unfavourable terms in the flow of manpower.

Capacity Building and Field Operations Branch

Research and Right to Development Branch

Question of the realization of the right to development

It's shaping up okay.

Continue to assist developing countries, particularly small island developing States, LDCs and landlocked developing countries in Africa in addressing their adaptation needs relating to the adverse effects of climate change

6. Urges the working group on the implementation and promotion of the right to development to take into account the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures in its task concerning the implementation of the right to development

87. The right to development grew out of the economic inequality and the disadvantaged position of the underdeveloped countries.

Aware of the fact that the Working Group on the Right to Development identified the problem of foreign debt as one of the obstacles to development and, consequently, to the implementation of the Declaration on the Right to Development,

The consensus on what the right to development was, and what it was not, first reached at the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, had proved to be very fragile, despite general agreement on the importance of the right to development itself.

Countries are different, and trade facilitation and development strategies need to be tailored to the specificities of, for example, land locked, least developed and small island developing states.

Noting with concern the growing debt servicing problems of externally indebted developing countries, particularly the LDCs, as constituting an element adversely affecting their development efforts

The developing countries had achieved varying degrees of economic growth through their unremitting efforts and their progress had not only contributed to world economic development but had also put an end to the domination of the world by a few countries.

This omission renders the Doha round of trade negotiations unfriendly to development.

The European Union did not find them effective for the development process.

While the ideals of democracy provide us with the best options for development, the imposition of the experiences of others is not necessarily conducive to it.