521. To compensate for the devastation of the past years, to cancel the debts, to assist without interference and without invasion on the part of the multinational companies in Africa’s effort to stand up on its own, to provide support in the fields of the illiteracy eradication, of training, education, health, infrastructure, of agrifood balance which respects the rural populations and the environment, more generally to cooperate in the equality of rights with the African partners, to restabilize the international institutions in their favour and support the establishment, for development purposes, of an international tax on the movement of capital, these are the objectives which constitute the constants of Tunisian diplomacy. ARTICLE 22 The Right to Development 522. Article 22 of the Charter expresses that « all peoples shall have the right to their economic, social and cultural development with due regard to their freedom and identity and in the equal enjoyment of the common heritage of mankind » (paragraph1) and that « the States shall have the duty, individually or collectively, to ensure the exercise of the right to development » (paragraph 2). 523. Tunisia has ratified several legal instruments related to human rights in development including in particular the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It has also been one of the authors of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights which recognizes the right of Man to development. I- The Right to Development and Solidarity 524. Tunisia has cleared a path for itself, opting for a global human development strategy based on the quest for a balance between the economic, social and political dimensions. Numerous measures for the restructuring and the liberalisation of the economy had thus been undertaken during the period covered by this Report to promote a wealth generating economic growth and daring and fair social policies, implemented to ensure the equitable redistribution of the dividends of growth at the national level. 525. Close to 80% of the State budget is allocated to socio-economic and cultural rights, namely, education, health, food, social security, professional training, employment and cultural activities. Tunisia is, in effect, a country where 80% of the population is part of the middle class, 80% of Tunisian families own their houses, more than 99% of the children are educated, where the rate of poverty has been reduced to at least 4%, where salary increases had been effected throughout the past 15 years, where economic growth surpasses 5% and where the per capita income has increased: it rose to 952 Dinars in 1986, to 2,444 Dinars in 1998, and to 3,555 Dinars in 2004. 526. The successful experiment of stable development and of the combat against disparities and injustices, diverse sources of tension, the Tunisian approach had been constantly quoted as example by the international development institutions. In this connection, Tunisia had been placed in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Reports, among the group of countries which guarantee a harmonious human development for their citizens, 110