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The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) is warning that developed countries could enter into a deep recession next year if the current credit squeeze is not addressed.
In its 2009 World Economic Situation and Prospects report released in Doha today, DESA says that world per capita income is expected to decline next year as a result of the global economic crisis.
The report says that the world output will reach a meagre one per cent next year compared to 2.5 per cent in 2008.
Pingfan Hong, the Chief the Global Economic Monitoring Unit in DESA says this growth is too low and implies that wages will decline when taking into account the population growth of 1.2 or 1.3 per cent.
He says a further implication is that the income for poor people whether in rich or low income countries will drop even more given the income distribution factor.
"That suggests that the progress made in the past few years in Africa and other low income countries toward the Millennium Development Goals, particularly Goal One: reduction of poverty would be to some extent hampered by this global economic downturn."
Pingfan Hong says this means that developing countries are suffering from a crisis that actually originated with developed economies.
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he President of the UN General Assembly says the conference on financing for developing which has ended on Doha, Qatar, has taken the first steps to agree on major changes in international financial governance.
UN Radio's Donn Bobb filed this report from Doha.
"We have reached a successful conclusion to this Follow-up Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Monterrey Consensus.
With those words, President of the UN General Assembly to the Conference Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua put the wraps on the 4-day conference on financing for development in Doha, Qatar.
He says not only has the conference strengthened commitments to innovative cooperation for financing for development, but it has taken the first steps to agree on major changes in international financial governance.
'We agree that these changes must respond to the needs and concerns of all nations, rich and poor, North and South, and that the process of change will be inclusive and democratic.'
D'Escoto-Brockmann says the negotiations have highlighted a new sense of solidarity and goodwill among nations at a time when they can be tempted to withdraw into their narrowly defined self-interests.
He adds that in the face of a loss of confidence in "our international financial institutions, the difficult process of rebuilding trust has begun."
The UN General Assembly has been authorized to hold a conference at the highest level on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development.
This is Donn Bobb reporting for United Nations Radio, Doha.
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Trade ministers from six African cotton- producing countries have called for
fair play in international trade of cotton.
Migrant farm workers picking cotton in the Sudan.
The ministers from Benin, Chad, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal and Zimbabwe made the call at a conference convened in Geneva by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
They urged rich countries to close the gap between pledges and delivery of assistance to the African cotton sector while outstanding trade issues are being worked out.
African countries known as the "Cotton Four", namely Benin, Chad, Mali and Burkina Faso depend on cotton for 30 to 60 per cent of their exports.
Speaking on behalf of the Cotton Four, Ahamadou Abdoulaye, Minister of Commerce and Industry of Mali noted that cotton employs some 14 million people in West Africa.
He called on developed countries to eliminate their trade-distorting support of cotton production.
A mini-ministerial negotiation session on agricultural issues under the Doha Round of trade negotiations is expected in mid-December.
Diane Bailey, United Nations.
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The Food and Agriculture warned today that climate change is threatening food security in Pacific island countries.
The warning is contained in a new report published jointly with the Pacific Regional Environment Programme and the University of South Pacific.
The report says that ocean warming, frequent tropical cyclones, flash floods and droughts are likely to have a devastating impact on food production systems in Pacific island countries.
It notes that climate-change related disasters are already imposing serious constraints on development on the islands which appear to be in a constant mode of recovery.
Increasing coastal inundation, salinization and erosion as a result of sea-level rise and human activities may contaminate and reduce the size of productive agricultural lands in these countries.
This would threaten local food security in these countries which depend heavily on summer rains for their agricultural production.
The report calls on Pacific island countries to review their agriculture, forestry, fisheries and drinking water policies in light of new information on climate change.
Diane Bailey, United Nations.
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he UN special envoy for the Doha Conference on Financing for Development has described the meeting as a success.
. She was speaking as the meeting on financing for development was in its last day in Doha, Qatar. UN Radio's Donn Bobb is there and sent this report.
Minister for Development and Economic Cooperation in Germany Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul says it shows that the world stands together in the face of the economic crisis -something she describes as being of huge importance to the people in all our countries but most specifically in developing countries:
"At this conference we agreed that we must find global answers to the major global problems and challenges of our time and to me it was of utmost importance that this conference should end with
the unanimous vote on the Outcome Document. Because the unanimous vote is the signal of a Doha Consensus and I think the Doha Consensus will in future be and have the same relevance that the Monterrey Consensus on which it builds."
Ms. Wieczorek-Zeul says no one would have understood if there had been a summit on the financial markets and not a summit on how to reduce poverty and hunger.
And she adds that here in Doha not only G-20 was represented but also the 172 countries that have not so far been included in the G-20.
This is Donn Bobb reporting for United Nations Radio, Doha.