Extracts from the Report of the Conference of Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries on the Role of Women in Development
10–11 April, 1985
New Delhi
Conceptual Approach to the Role of Women in Development
12. The Conference was convened against the background of the fact that the world is today passing through one of the worst crises in its history. Production in developing countries, particularly over the last few years, has decline precipitously. The temporary upturn in the economic situation in some of the industrialized countries of the North have not triggered off any revival in the developing countries as predicted. Open and hidden unemployment is increasing as also poverty and human misery. The massive death toll precipitated by ...
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