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Significance
Member state representatives are expected to use the opportunity to debate long-awaited reforms to the UN development system and make it clear which elements of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s ambitious reform plan they support -- and whether they will provide the funds needed to implement it.
Impacts
Authority over UN development assistance will become more centralised within the UN Secretariat, as opposed to the agencies.
Even with modest reform, UN agencies will remain more fragmented and less efficient than international financial institutions.
Countries hoping to raise their UN stature may back Guterres’s reform agenda by financing the proposed Resident Coordinator system.
Keywords:
International,
INT,
United Nations,
economy,
international relations,
politics,
social,
aid,
foreign policy,
government,
reform,
talks
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2018
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