Cutting the burden of Africa's debt

Need for broader external debt relief

Debt relief may help Madagascar protect its biodiversity.

And, as I suggested above, all schemes aimed at easing the burden of work and increasing the amount of leisure risk falling victim to our genius for conjuring up new disasters.

By serving as a clearinghouse for administrative issues, for example, political coordinators could greatly ease the Council's formal workload.

The Group of Eight initiatives on debt relief and on Africa are important contributions.

It does, however, require more than just international aid or debt relief.

We also believe that official development assistance should be combined with debt relief.

Delegating and streamlining the workload

The number and scope of conditions attached to certain types of assistance should be made less onerous on recipient countries.

This steady flow of debt relief is allowing US consumer spending to recover slowly.

7. Emphasizes in this regard that debt relief does not replace other sources of financing

This would also contribute to alleviating the heavy agenda of the legislative and expert reviewing bodies.

Action on debt relief vital because it provides the certainty needed to hire the doctors and the teachers, and to buy the drugs.

The amount of debt relief would then be determined on the basis of expected development assistance and the need to avoid a new debt overhang.

As a result, the workload is mainly shouldered by women.

For donor countries, issues included increased official development assistance (ODA), deeper debt relief and improved trade conditions.

Debt relief, trade reform and development aid are all vital, but none of them can work alone.

The increased workload has negatively affected staff morale.

Moreover, it was pointed out that draft principle 4 had not fully achieved the objective of reducing the victim's burden of proof.

Debt relief for the countries of the region remains a major focus of our assistance to Africa, including through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative.

Action on debt relief and trade reform to benefit low income countries should also reflect the Millennium Development Goals.

Finally, the representative called for a realistic response to the issue of debt relief and welcomed the initiative taken at the G8 Summit in Gleneagles.

(g) Language and documentation services (UNOV) share based on workload

V. Workload Relating to Persons at Large and the Eight New Indictments

It also believed that the core countries would relieve the ECB burden of mounting bailout costs.

Another important step forward was the finalization of the debt relief plan for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC).

In the case of differential treatment, the burden of proof was on the employer.

We believe that the country can be set on a sustained growth path through increased development assistance, as well as debt relief, to supplement our efforts.

Another breakthrough was the debt relief for HIPC countries agreed at the annual meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions.

65. Welcomes the efforts made in workload sharing among the duty stations, and requests the Secretary General actively to pursue efficiencies to be gained through possible workload sharing in conference services among United Nations Headquarters and other duty stations

We urge all creditors to support the call for intensified debt relief, without jeopardizing the long term viability of the international financial institutions.

The report calls for a major scaling up of investments in development, as well as for stronger and more effective international action on debt relief, trade and science and technology.

The studies have focused on factors including types of jobs, working conditions, double workload, capacity for employment, and the role played by motivation.

(ii) Updated proposals for workload standards, efficiency and related performance indicators

The African Development Bank Group also announced that Burundi had met the conditions needed to qualify for over US  226 million in debt relief.

The vast bulk of the caregiving workload for those who look after people with disabilities falls on women and girls, turning the infamous double day' into a triple day of demands (Wolffe, 1999).

UNCTAD could contribute, within its mandate, to the enrichment of discussions on debt relief and assistance for developing countries in the context of a development oriented solution that would link various debt relief alternatives to national development plans and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Later, some investors feared that governments would unleash inflation to ease the burden of soaring public debt and address persistent unemployment.

The secretariat actively encourages applications by qualified candidates from non Annex I Parties, and will advertise senior positions in a more targeted manner.

The secretariat is confronted with an imbalance between the mandated workload and staff resources.

We are pleased to note the marked progression in the caseload of the Court since its inception.

In addition to favouring an increase in aid, Slovakia also supports further reform of trade relations as well as debt relief for poor countries.

In view of the Under Secretary General's references to the importance attached to debt relief by the Bretton Woods institutions and some Summit participants, the delegation of Barbados would welcome the views of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs regarding helping some of the countries concerned to deal with their increasing debt burden.

Debt relief, debt swaps or debt cancellation could offer important means for mobilizing resources for accelerating progress towards the water and sanitation goals.