Added: 05/05/2006 |
New global cooperation program should cover all fields of countries' developmentTo decrease the existing gap between industrialized and developing countries, the countries should design a new global cooperation program, aimed at the interaction at all levels and in every field, including politics, culture, labor, education, economy and environment. Developing countries face a great amount of problems that can be solved only through coherent and efficient approaches to each stage of social and economic development.
However, many countries have been left behind the process. These are developing countries, where the process of globalization has more negative than positive influences. It has resulted in growing inequality and marginalization, both within and among the countries.
The global cooperation program, currently maintained and promoted by the Global Cooperation Council, offers new approaches to the development cooperation among industrialized and developing countries. The GCC states that the development cooperation has often been narrowed to something like financial aid programs, while countries interact at all levels and in various fields, such as politics, culture, economy, environment and social development.
The GCC members insist that the global cooperation program of new design should be broadened to cover all aspects of international relations. Some of the most significant areas of the global cooperation program are labor, private investment, international trade, finance and debt payments. The new global cooperation program should be more inclusive as to make the relations of industrialized and developing countries equal.
What are the questions widely discussed at GCC forums, seminars and conferences and which demand a more coherent reaction?
•The ways and methods of decreasing the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day;
•Equal access to all levels of education, the assurance that all children can complete a full course of primary schooling;
•Reduction of maternal and children's mortality;
•Preventive methods to spreading of HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases; special assistance to children orphaned by HIV/AIDS;
•Gender equality and empowerment of women as to stimulate development;
•More good employment opportunities for young people;
•Enhancement of the pharmaceutical industry in developing countries;
•Sustainable availability of new technologies, particularly information and communication technologies.
As it is seen from the list of issues, there is a great amount of questions that should be dealt through the global cooperation program of new design. In the recent years, the GCC has also focused on the idea of creating the global environment facility and discussed and analyzed a variety of problems many countries face today.
The issues discussed and analyzed include water scarcity, water management, management of products of modern biotechnology, and sustainable ecotourism. Particularly, the experts of the GCC analyze genetic engineering in agriculture and expectations connected with creating food for all and effects on the environment, society and human and animal health brought about through the implementation of new biotechnologies.
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