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25. Based in part on such indicators, progress has been recorded in the overall
integration of sustainable development principles into economic and social policy
development, the development of renewable energy technologies and infrastructure 46
and the inclusion and protection of the rights of women and indigenous peoples.
Member States mostly cited studies measuring progress in implementing national
sustainable development strategies and specific policies and measures at the national
level. Most United Nations system organizations, including the regional
commissions, catalogued studies on progress through global and regional efforts to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals; monitor progress in energy, agriculture
and biodiversity; assess the state of the global environment, such as the Global
Environmental Outlook reports prepared by the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP); 47 and implement regional programmes such as NEPAD 48 and
the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre. 49
26. The global financial and economic crisis caused setbacks to progress made in
poverty eradication. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia still remain far from the
2015 target. 50 However, notable progress has been made in India where the
population share below the national poverty line fell from 36 per cent in 1993/94 to
25 per cent in 2009, with micro, small and medium enterprises providing
employment for about 60 million people and contributing about 8 per cent of GDP.
The largest flagship programme to tackle rural poverty is the Mahatma Gandhi
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46 Second Committee, sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, statements by Ethiopia, Kenya,
Peru, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
47 UNEP, available from www.unep.org/geo/GEO_Meetings.asp.
48 ECA.
49 ECLAC, Caribbean regional report.
50 The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.10.I.7).
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