The Liaison Officer reports to the Chief, Co financing and Partnership Section.

The Co financing and Partnership Section aims to ensure full funding of UNODC's technical assistance programme and its core infrastructure costs.

Now the Advocacy Section and the Co financing and Partnership Section report directly to the Director.

The Co financing and Partnership Section has the primary responsibility for undertaking and coordinating fund raising policy and initiatives.

(d) Consumer Lending (CLP)

Consumer fraud

Real personal consumer spending grew at a robust 4.4 rate, as spending on consumer durables soared by 21 .

That key point appears all but lost on the consumer recovery crowd.

The past relationship between wealth and consumer spending implies that each 100 of additional wealth raises consumer spending by about four dollars, so 2.5 trillion of additional wealth would raise consumer spending by roughly 100 billion.

But these are impeding the consumer spending needed to boost economic activity and kick start growth.

Unfortunately, the projected recovery in consumer spending didn t occur.

Recent data on consumer spending in the United States have been terrible.

Gains in inflation adjusted personal consumption expenditure have averaged a mere 0.8 over the past five years the most severe and protracted slowdown in consumer demand growth in the post World War II era.

These reforms require the sacrifice of certain kinds of protections, as well as of income and consumption growth.

The key driver of the increase in final sales was a strong rise in consumer spending.

Higher domestic consumer spending would otherwise create inflationary pressures.

Consumption demand for luxury goods is unlikely to solve the problem.

Students protest, sometimes alongside trade unions, against the consumer society.

If that decline continues, it will inevitably reduce the pace of consumer spending.

External variances caused by parties or situations external to the United Nations

1 ASG, 1 P 5, 1 P 4, 2 GS OL, 2 NS

1 D 1, 1 GS OL, 10 NS

1 P 5, 1 GS OL

Human resources

Office of Chief Executive Officer 8

Office of Chief Executive Officer 8

Pension Entitlements and Client Services

Financial Services Section

Engineering Section

Security and Safety Section

Summary of follow up action taken to implement requests and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Office of Internal Oversight Services

a Represents highest level of authorized proposed strength.

United Nations Military Observers

Uruguay

(to be confirmed)

Pakistan

Military Observer Coordination Centre, Kisangani

Senegal

Formed Police Unit

1 P 3f),

1 P 4,c

65 NS (28 NSc),

1 P 2,

1 P 5,

1 P 2c,