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UN contributions to development thinking and practice / Richard Jolly ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- United Nations intellectual history project.
- United Nations intellectual history project
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations--History.
- United Nations.
- Economic development--International cooperation--History.
- Economic development.
- Human rights--Economic aspects.
- Human rights.
- Poverty--Prevention.
- Poverty.
- Economic development--International cooperation.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- United Nations contributions to development thinking and practice
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at one a history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. The authors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN's founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human concerns that are at the center of the UN's thinking on economic and human development today. In the intervening period, the authors show how the UN's approach to development evolved from mainstream areas of economic development to include issues of employment, poverty reduction, fairer distribution of the benefits of growth, equality of men and women, child development, social justice, and environmental sustainability.
- Contents:
- Values and history:
- Has there been progress? values and criteria for UN history ; The history of development thinking from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes
- Ideas and action:
- The 1940s and 1950s: the foundations of UN development thinking and practice
- The 1960s: the UN development decade: mobilizing for development
- The 1970s: equity in development
- The 1980s: losing control and marginalizing the poorest
- The 1990s: rediscovering a human vision
- Building the human foundations; Structural and sectoral change
- Outcomes and the future: The record of performance
- UN contributions and missed opportunities
- Lessons for the future: development thinking and the UN's future
- Appendix: ILO special topics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-367) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253344077
- 0253216842
- OCLC:
- 53896571
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