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Commitment 8. To ensure that structural adjustment programmes include social development goals.

Let me emphasize the responsibility of the international community as a whole.

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I also pointed out a new emphasis in state institutions and society at large on social development and on the need for the State to redirect its efforts towards the country s rural areas and the more vulnerable sectors of society.

(e) Adaptation of the system as a whole to developments in the economic and social climate and preservation of the role of social security in the achievement of development goals.

She also underscored the need to better integrate economic and social policies in order to promote social development and root out poverty.

Coordination and cooperation with the international community as a whole has been firmly established.

Why do some structural adjustment programmes that give little attention to social impact persist?

Welcoming Economic and Social Council decision 2006 206 of 10 February 2006, entitled Adapting the work of the Economic and Social Council ,

This period is necessary for society to adapt socially and psychologically to the new conditions inherent in the market economy.

Also, most social security benefits are adjusted upwards to follow prices and salaries wages.

26. The international community has also provided assistance to debtor countries in the restructuring of their debt to commercial banks.

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The Committee should bring system wide coordination issues to the attention of the Economic and Social Council and make recommendations thereon.

Turkmen neutrality, and I constantly repeat this without false modesty, is the property of the entire region and the entire world community.

We stress that in order to fully perform the aforementioned functions, the organization of work, agenda and reporting requirements of the Economic and Social Council should be adapted.

The Council has a central role to play in promoting the coordination of those outcomes throughout the United Nations system.

(d) Adaptation of the management structure of the social security schemes to meet the imperatives of efficiency and cost compression

Governments should shift their priorities from defence to social welfare.

The structural adjustment programmes which many countries were implementing had also caused severe economic, social and political distortions.

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While recent improvement in growth in Africa suggests that well designed structural adjustment programmes could restore growth, experience has vividly demonstrated that adjustment programmes must take into account the need to expand social investment, provide a social safety net and alleviate poverty.

8. The Social Development Summit of 1995, recognizing the negative social effects of structural adjustment, undertook commitments in its Declaration to re examine these policies.

Concerned about the repercussions of structural adjustment programmes on the realization and full enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights,

But how well has the international community adjusted its thinking, development approaches and policies to those trends?

(e) Report of the twenty eighth session of the Advisory Committee on Post Adjustment

As regards the effects of structural adjustment policies, the Commission on Human Rights, in its decision 1996 103, decided to establish an open ended working group on structural adjustment programmes and economic, social and cultural rights.

The Council Forum will identify needs for adjustments in policy and implementation.

156. We stress that in order to fully perform the above functions, the organization of work, the agenda and the current methods of work of the Economic and Social Council should be adapted.

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In many African countries painful structural adjustment programmes have led to a significant reduction in social spending and consequent reductions in the delivery of many of the most basic social services.

IV. ACTION BY SOCIETY AT LARGE

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CCAQ could neither support not having post adjustment at all in New York nor adjusting salaries in New York through a mechanism other than that of the normal post adjustment system.

The number of women holding strategic posts in public or private administrative bodies or in parastatal bodies is well below the 30 per cent agreed upon at the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in September 1995, since 43 women are chairpersons and 3 are in charge of State owned companies.

Further progress requires united, concerted and consistent action on the part of the international community as a whole.

The main argument against government intervention is that resource allocation by the market will also serve the overall interests of society.

The above measures should also be followed up by the working group on structural adjustment programmes and economic, social and cultural rights.

All things will readjust themselves in time.

Since Thailand is in the process of adjusting the overall ratio of students in science and technology to students in humanities and social science to 50 50, the current targets are to increase the number of students in science and technology by 15 per cent and to limit the number of students in humanities and social science to less than 5 per cent annually.

Other values, notably biodiversity, hydrological and climate regulation functions are public goods that benefit entire nations and the global community.

They have recognized that in countries wracked by social tensions, the process of reconciliation and capacity building of civil society must be an integral part of recovery programmes.

Efforts should be intensified to implement commitment 8 of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development See Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6 12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.