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Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services is 3.9 per cent (FY 2009).

Some are also spending significant sums servicing public debt; while no Asia-Pacific country has a debt crisis, some nevertheless still have sizable servicing commitments.

Unfortunately, the current crisis has demonstrated, once again, the vulnerability of developing countries to exogenous shocks and that the global downturn has affected the capacity of those countries to continue servicing their debt obligations, regardless of their good practices, with the result that fewer funds are available for financing development and the internationally agreed development goals, including the MDGs, laying therefore the foundation for a debt crisis in the years to come.

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The lower debt-to-GDP ratio translates into manageable debt servicing and most of these countries had maintained their relatively satisfactory debt position before the onset of the financial and economic crisis through a mixture of strong export growth and prudent external financing.

For example, for countries receiving debt relief, debt service paid, on average, declined by about two percentage points of GDP over the period 2001-2010, creating much-needed fiscal space for African countries to accelerate spending on and investment in poverty reduction measures.

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The remainder of the proposed budget goes to other agencies and for other purposes, including 9 per cent for debt service, 2 per cent towards deficit reduction and 2 per cent for the implementation of the findings of a Government-wide pay study.

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Japan also made voluntary contributions to FAO to develop and strengthen international fisheries management capacity.

Those programmes include organizing a series of seminars, dispatching experts from Japan, organizing training programmes in the respective countries and providing equipment, such as X-ray inspection tools.

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The secretariat highlighted the potential for the further liberalization of South–South trade and the reduction of tariffs on intermediate inputs, the need to properly address non-tariff measures, the need for a sound business environment and an effective government to establish the enabling environment to make domestic firms more attractive to global networks, the necessity for human capital development, and the relevance of transport and trade facilitation to GSCs.

If the redefinition of the Organization’s role in the international community increasingly calls for a permanent staff of “generalists”, the new staffing policy must not be an exercise in drafting good texts, but a real exercise in human resources management.

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In addition to creation issues, such a text could address other issues left by secured transactions law to party autonomy (for example, subordination agreements, definition of default and waiver of rights in the context of enforcement; see recommendations 94 and 133).

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