Ekonomi dan Keuangan

Ekonomi dan KeuanganKedua Komite
Komite Ekonomi dan Keuangan (Komite Kedua), diketuai oleh HE Mr Abulkalam Abdul Momen Bangladesh. Selama sesi ini, ia akan berurusan dengan isu-isu yang berkaitan dengan pertumbuhan ekonomi dan pembangunan seperti kebijakan makroekonomi pertanyaan (termasuk perdagangan internasional, sistem keuangan internasional, dan keberlanjutan utang eksternal), pembiayaan pembangunan, pembangunan berkelanjutan, pemukiman manusia, pemberantasan kemiskinan, globalisasi dan saling ketergantungan, kegiatan operasional untuk pengembangan, dan informasi dan teknologi komunikasi untuk pembangunan.
Kedua Komite juga akan mempertimbangkan isu-isu yang berkaitan dengan Kelompok Negara-negara di situasi khusus - seperti Negara Terbelakang (LDC) dan Negara Berkembang Daratan (LLDCs). Ini juga akan mempertimbangkan item pada kedaulatan tetap rakyat Palestina di Wilayah Pendudukan Palestina, termasuk Jerusalem Timur, dan penduduk Arab di Golan Suriah yang diduduki atas sumber daya alam mereka.
Pada sesi enam puluh lima, Komite Kedua mengambil tindakan atas 44 proposal draft. Komite ini diharapkan untuk bertindak pada sejumlah proposal yang sama selama sesi tahun ini.
Sesuai dengan proses yang sedang berlangsung revitalisasi Majelis Umum, Komite II yang terlibat dalam memperbarui metode kerjanya dan praktek dalam rangka meningkatkan kualitas perdebatan dan dampak dari pertimbangan dan keputusan, serta untuk lebih merampingkan agenda Komite dan program kerja, biennialize agenda, cluster pertimbangan agenda tematis, tahan interaktif "pertanyaan waktu" sesi dengan para pejabat sekretariat setelah presentasi laporan substantif, dan secara aktif bekerja untuk mengurangi jumlah dan panjang draft resolusi yang diadopsi selama sesi tersebut.
Seperti pada sesi sebelumnya, Komite akan mengadakan dialog dengan Sekretaris Eksekutif Komisi Daerah serta jadwal sejumlah peristiwa sisi sebagai bagian dari program kerjanya.


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Economic and Financial

Economic and Financial
Second Committee

The Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee), is chaired by H.E. Mr. Abulkalam Abdul Momen of Bangladesh. During this session, it will deal with issues relating to economic growth and development such as macroeconomic policy questions (including international trade, international financial system, and external debt sustainability), financing for development, sustainable development, human settlements, poverty eradication, globalization and interdependence, operational activities for development, and information and communication technologies for development.

The Second Committee will also consider issues relating to Groups of Countries in special situations - such as the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs). It will also consider the item on permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources.

At the sixty-fifth session, the Second Committee took action on 44 draft proposals. The Committee is expected to act on a similar number of proposals during this year’s session.

In accordance with the on-going process of revitalization of the General Assembly, the Second Committee is engaged in updating its working methods and practices in order to improve the quality of debates and the impact of their deliberations and decisions, as well as to further streamline the Committee’s agenda and programme of work, biennialize agenda items, cluster the consideration of agenda items thematically, hold interactive “question time” sessions with secretariat officials after the presentation of substantive reports, and actively work to reduce the number and length of draft resolutions adopted during its sessions.

As in previous sessions, the Committee will hold a dialogue with the Executive Secretaries of the Regional Commissions as well as schedule a number of side events as part of its programme of work.



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Third World Economic Development

    The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Third World Economic Development
by Clive Crook


    The development experiences of Third World countries since the fifties have been staggeringly diverse—and hence very informative. Forty years ago the developing countries looked a lot more like each other than they do today. Take India and South Korea. By any standards, both countries were extremely poor: India's income per capita was about $150 (in 1980 dollars) and South Korea's was about $350. Life expectancy was about forty years and fifty years respectively. In both countries roughly 70 percent of the people worked on the land, and farming accounted for 40 percent of national income. The two countries were so far behind the industrial world that it seemed nearly inconceivable that either could ever attain reasonable standards of living, let alone catch up.

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Indonesia's Economic

Indonesia's Economic Development
in comparison to South Korea and Taiwan
Gary Dean, September 1999
Reference: http://okusi.net/garydean/works/IndEcDev.html

The rapid pace of economic development in East Asia over the past few decades has awed the world.  This is particularly so for the so-called Newly Industrialising Countries (NICs) which include South Korea and Taiwan, together with the city-states of Singapore and Hongkong.  Since the 1980's, these states have experienced very rapid growth rates, especially South Korea and Taiwan, which have recorded annual GDP growth of 9.7% and 8.3% respectively during the period 1980 to 1990.  By comparison, Indonesia during this same period recorded 5.4% annual GDP growth, which whilst still a fast rate of economic growth, comes nowhere near that of South Korea and Taiwan.[1]

This paper shall focus on the recent economic development in Indonesia, and attempt to contrast it with that of Korea and Taiwan.  It shall attempt to explain why such relatively large differences in economic growth occurred between these countries, despite a significant number of shared historical experiences and a certain amount of cultural similarity.  Why is it that South Korea and Taiwan have surged ahead economically during this time, whilst by comparison Indonesia has lagged in relative terms? What makes Indonesia so different?

My perspective is shamelessly culturalist.  I shall start by giving an overview of the Indonesian economy and the social cultural framework within which it operates, including the influence of patrimonialism, the bureaucracy, and the educational and legal system.  I shall then contrast this with the state of affairs in South Korea and Taiwan, discussing some of the similarities, and then highlighting the many differences.

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The Impact on Industrial Countries

Oil Price Shocks and U.S. Economic Activity
RFF Feature
July 28, 2010

New RFF analysis finds global influences, such as oil price shocks, may be secondary to domestic influences when it comes to understanding the causes of U.S. economic fluctuation.

Economists have examined the relationship between oil price shocks and U.S. economic activity since the 1970s and early 1980s—when oil prices rose sharply and the United States plunged into recession. The early research quantified the relationship between oil prices and U.S. economic activity and examined the avenues through which oil price shocks might affect U.S. economic activity.

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