corporate actors have a positive role to play in stimulating the economic development of host countries and in supporting social and environmental development and the competitiveness of local enterprises.

Catalyzing Consumption and Balancing Growth

Indeed, access to energy spurs development on many levels not least in terms of women and their health, safety, and autonomy.

Economic development was driven by an organizational learning process (i.e. by corporations), often encouraged by the State, that stimulated innovation and competitiveness.

Recalling the Agenda for DevelopmentResolution 51 240, annex. and the relevant provisions regarding its follow up and implementation, and the need to give impetus to international economic cooperation for development so as to follow up on the Agenda effectively,

Indeed, an office had been established to solicit support for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), with the aim of stimulating rapid development through the use of Africa's own resources supplemented by its development partners.

More broadly, however, lack of assessment also prevents the elaboration of sound domestic policies aimed at spurring the services sector's contribution to the overall development of developing countries.

The Millennium Development Goals, while effective in catalyzing poverty alleviation efforts, have also framed development primarily in terms of the improvement of material conditions.

The private sector should be stimulated

The panellist from FairVentures highlighted an example of a home country measure designed to stimulate and facilitate positive corporate contributions to development (BiD Challenge).

In that light, ways of generating positive political will should be encouraged.

Fixing the housing market could also help spur consumption .

But spurring faster growth in services is a complex undertaking.

SADC welcomed the decisions of the World Summit on the Information Society and the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) which had further emphasized that ICTs should be harnessed to economic development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Clear goals and targets could help to catalyse a bottom up approach, strengthening commitments and ensuring that sustainable forest management makes a full contribution to the broader development agenda.

(b) Catalysing action on the ground and stimulating a bottom up approach

The pursuit of that national ownership requirement has already stimulated tangible follow up.

This format is designed to stimulate interactive exchanges among delegations and between delegations and the secretariat.

This landmark stimulated female Federal Representatives and Senators to establish Committees for the Year of the Woman.

Rather than spurring investment in plant and equipment, low interest rates inflated a real estate bubble.

We also thank the Government of Oman for its contribution in promoting consideration of the issue by the General Assembly.

For sustainability of agricultural production and realization of the agricultural production improvement programme, including use of land and agrarian development strategy, the institutional legal foundations need to be laid down, in addition to a series of institutional measures to stimulate such development. Primarily

For example, the Government of Qatar, working with the Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry, established the Qatar Industrial Manufacturing Company to promote small and medium sized enterprises and downstream industries by stimulating and encouraging the role of the private sector and its investment in industrial development.

They demonstrate clearly that China is prepared to compensate for export weakness by stimulating domestic demand.

This poses a great challenge as to how to induce more investment inflows to developing countries. Various host and home country policy instruments have been used to address this problem.

The catalyst for these broad based protests is the proposed construction of hundreds of dams throughout western China.

But no one would claim that lowering short term interest rates spurred investment.

Migration from other countries, mainly those in the neighbourhood, has further catalysed the process of urbanisation in Pakistani cities.

The growing frustration caused by this situation could catalyse and accelerate the movement towards full self government.

Embassies and theme experts play an important role in stimulating donor coordination on these issues.

All human rights will be addressed in an integrated, interrelated and interdependent manner by stimulating and coordinating action across the United Nations system.

The arrival of Afghan refugees in the western provinces has stimulated interest in Pashto music, although there has been intolerance of it in some places.

Girls receive an additional take home ration of vegetable oil as an incentive for families to continue to send girls to school.

Public private partnerships were essential to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship and mobilize the resources necessary for the implementation of development programmes and projects.

By creating a large public demand for reforms, the current crisis offers another opportunity to improve governance arrangements.

At the national level, limited financial resources were allocated to infrastructure development as a matter of priority to stimulate economic growth.

(a) Acting as the operational arms of ECA at the country and subregional levels and serving as catalysts to leverage the Commission's resources

The agreement by the Department for International Development to fund an international airport on St. Helena is expected to stimulate tourism to the island to the extent that the income generated will contribute to enabling St. Helena to relinquish its dependence on aid from the United Kingdom.

The dilemma facing US policymakers is how to stimulate growth while lowering the level of total debt.

Government can either spend more money itself, or try to stimulate private spending by cutting taxes or lowering interest rates.

Moreover, the ability of the financial authorities to stimulate the economy is constrained by the unwillingness of the rest of the world to accumulate additional dollar reserves.

Through these campaigns, competition authorities stimulate a culture of competition and make the public realize how harmful anti competitive practices are.

Combining paid work and family responsibilities to stimulate the completion of the emancipation process by creating favourable economic, cultural and social conditions.

The findings of this review, which was completed in 2002, prompted the government to review the law on child maintenance.

Institutions and institutional capacities are often regarded as key to pursuing the socio economic development in a country.2 The implementation of the Millennium Development Goals requires a policy package that underpins strategies to stimulate economic growth and poverty reduction at the same time.