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UN contributions to development thinking and practice / Richard Jolly ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- United Nations intellectual history project.
- United Nations intellectual history project
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--International cooperation--History.
- Economic development.
- Human rights--Economic aspects.
- Human rights.
- Poverty--Prevention.
- Poverty.
- United Nations--History.
- United Nations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (409 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- United Nations contributions to development thinking and practice
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once 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
- Contents:
- Has there been progress? : values and criteria for UN history
- The history of development thinking from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes
- 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
- The record of performance
- UN contributions and missed opportunities
- Lessons for the future : development thinking and the UN's future
- Appendix: Country categories and distribution of population and GDP by regions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-367) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07184-X
- 0-253-11101-3
- OCLC:
- 71840942
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