Making Growth Green

The main challenges faced by the international community today are maintaining international peace and security and achieving economic growth and development.

To that end, we deem it necessary to increase productive investment in rural and agricultural development to achieve lasting food security.

Hard Truths About Global Growth

Samoa supports enlarging both membership categories of the Security Council in order to reflect contemporary geopolitical realities.

Faster Growth Through Stronger Regulation

The comprehensive report of the Secretary General is fully in line with the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development.

In its most recent WEO, the IMF forecasts global GDP to grow by only 3.3 in 2012, and by 3.6 in 2013. Moreover, the downgrading of growth prospects is remarkably widespread.

Within the four years of my Government, Peru, with its difficulties and hopes, has moved forward, building sustained economic growth and a fairer society, and ensuring the comprehensive security of its inhabitants.

We are more than willing to help the North achieve economic growth, which is almost always the source of peace and security. As such, North Korea s economic recovery is vital for an enduring peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Our current growth rates are not sufficient to achieve the Development Goals because of, for example, the high rates of population growth.

The Government of Anguilla is committed to achieving a growth rate over the next five years of not more than 12 per cent of GDP.

The huge global cards market offers key opportunities for generating extra growth in the years ahead.

to work hard together to establish a stable and safe regional environment and promote long term peace and stability in the region at an early date.

I strongly believe that this potential should be used, now maybe more than ever, most pragmatically to meet the hopes of the international community for greater stability and security worldwide.

Security is not achieved by increasing the number of weapons, as history has shown far too often.

Subprogramme 6 Promoting the advancement of women

However, realizing those advantages requires that economic growth be possible in the countries involved and that it be accompanied by substantial job growth.

I. Achieving peace and security

Agricultural development is of fundamental importance for the achievement of sustainable development and broad based economic growth, directly linked to food security and poverty reduction in Africa.

The continuing lack of security represents a serious challenge to the objectives of the Security Council.

52. Over the past few years, small developing economies had been emphasizing the need to achieve high and sustainable growth levels.

Concurrently, greater investment in infrastructure is also necessary to achieve higher rates of growth.

It is therefore essential that we enhance the Council's effectiveness by ensuring that its membership better reflects the realities of today's world.

Moreover, the Spanish economy returned to growth in the third quarter of last year, and is on track to grow by roughly 1 this year. If, as expected, GDP grows by about 2 next year, Spain will outperform the eurozone average and create an environment conducive to significant long term employment gains.

Africa, long the world s slowest growing region, is now averaging roughly 5 annual GDP growth. Overall, the developing countries are growing at around 7 per year, and the developed economies at around 2 , yielding a global average of around 4.5 .

Draft resolution A 59 L.64 aims to expand the membership of the Security Council to reflect new realities.

4. Also welcomes the Chief Minister's 2002 budget presentation, in which he noted that in 2001, for the first time in seven years, the economy of Montserrat experienced positive growth, from a negative rate of 5.43 per cent in 2000 to 0.4 per cent in 2001, the implementation of several major public works projects accounting for growth in the construction sector

Sustained economic growth in the developing world was an increasingly realistic prospect.

Highly indebted countries, a group that nowadays includes most of the advanced economies, need growth to help them to dig themselves out. But, as a long term proposition, the case for focusing on trend growth is not as encompassing as many policymakers and economic theorists would have one believe.

China was right to wait in adjusting its exchange rate, and it is now right to move gradually rather than discontinuously. The Chinese economy is growing at potential forecasts put the prospective rate for 2010 at 10 the first quarter flash numbers, at 11.9 , show it expanding as fast as any economy can safely grow.

United Nations Secretary General, In larger freedom towards development, security and human rights for all, paragraphs 34 and 37.

As to global security, we need a reformed Security Council with a membership that reflects global realities.

Indeed, international peace and security could neither be achieved nor maintained in the absence of development.

The resolve of UNDP in contributing to the achievement of the MDGs was further enhanced by the report of the Secretary General entitled In larger freedom towards development, security and human rights for all (A 59 2005) as well as the final report of the Millennium Project called Investing in development a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Markets are currently forecasting the first rise in the third quarter of next year and another in 2020.

Sir, I must insist. In this case, urgency overrides security.

Assuming an annual average rate of five per cent growth in GDP, this goal represents a 22 per cent annual growth rate for IDE investment.

This was important since economic growth was central to increasing long term employment and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Sunset industries face slowing sales in mature markets and growing sales in world markets.

(c) Report of the Secretary General entitled In larger freedom towards development, security and human rights for all (A 59 2005)

Taking note also of the report of the Secretary General entitled In larger freedom towards development, security and human rights for all ,

(d) Lower population growth and depopulation in recent years

During the past five years, the worldwide growth rates for mobile telephony had hovered around an astonishing 50 per cent per annum, and some countries were actually doubling their mobile subscriber base every year.Systems using constellations of LEO or medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellites would soon provide personal communication services (PCS).

We do not, under any circumstances, intend to waver in this renewed commitment of repositioning Africa for peace, security, stability, growth, sustainable development and enduring democracy.