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United Nations: How Assessed Contributions for Peacekeeping Operations Are Calculated

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Aug. 1, 1994
Report No. NSIAD-94-206
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Summary:

To finance its peacekeeping operations, the United Nations relies on an assessment formula that is based on the regular U.N. budget assessment scale in which the nations that are permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and industrialized nations pay more than poorer nations. The system has led to inequities. In this report, GAO looks at alternatives to the current system and constructs a simplified perspective of countries' ability to pay for peacekeeping operations based on a 1992 "snapshot" of each country's percentage of global gross national product and a regrouping of peacekeeping assessment categories using World Bank per capita income data.

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