Orienting economic policy toward social need

Many UN agencies have emphasized the need to take account of human needs in determining economic adjustment and restructuring policies and programmes, including measures to safeguard the poor, especially in areas of health and education, and "debt swaps for children".

1. Providing humanitarian support
2. Orienting
3. Integrating social policies
4. Improving economic policy-making
5. Improving development model
6. Developing socially responsible economy

1. Swapping debts
2. Providing sufficient understanding of social and economic contexts in development programmes
3. Promoting fair trade
4. Investing ethically
5. Intentionalizing use of resources
6. Including environmental, social and gender impact analyses in sustainable development programmes
7. Expanding role of children and youth in sustainable development
8. Developing social banking

1. Providing sufficient economic rights
2. Easing struggle for existence
3. Developing housing policy

1. Recognizing socio-economic interdependencies
2. Involving stakeholders in management decisions
3. Ensuring national economic policies support sustainable development

1. Social hardships of economic reform
2. Lack of protection for the vulnerable
3. Irresponsibility towards future generations
4. Ignored social needs of developing countries
5. Failure to adapt general initiatives to specific needs
6. Devaluation of education by survival needs

1. Unsociable
2. Uneconomic