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