The UN and development : from aid to cooperation / Olav Stokke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stokke, Olav, 1934-

Series:

United Nations intellectual history project (Series)

United Nations intellectual history project

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Economic assistance.

United Nations.

United Nations--Technical assistance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (749 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The UN and Development provides the first comprehensive overview of the development policies and activities of the United Nations system from the late 1940s to the present. With an explicit focus on the history of the ideas that have been generated, institutionalized, and implemented by UN organizations, this book examines changing trends in development paradigms from the concept of technical assistance to underdeveloped countries, as they were called in the late 1940s, to development cooperation in the 21st century. Olav Stokke traces this fascinating story and demonstrates the UN's essential role and its future challenges in aiding the least developed countries and the globe's billion poorest inhabitants.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Boxes and Tables

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1. The Emergence of International Development Assistance

1. Pre-Aid Traditions and Ideas and the Institutional Heritage

2. The Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance

3. A UN Fund for Economic Development

4. First Steps Down the Road: What Can the Footprints Tell?

Part 2. The Formative Years

5. The First Development Decade:An Instrument of Persuasion?

6. The Second Development Decade

7. The United Nations Development Programme, 1966-1981

8. The World Food Programme, 1961-1981: Surplus Food for Development and Relief

9. The 1960s and 1970s: Perspectives on Development

Part 3. The Lost Decade and a New Beginning

10. Visions and Priorities for the 1990s: The United Nations Strategy for the Fourth Development Decade

11. The Revival of the Social and Human Dimensions ofDevelopment

12. Evolving Priorities, Patterns, and Trends, 1982-2005

13. Food Aid: From Development to Humanitarian Relief

14. The Long Road toward the Millennium Development Goals

15. The Contribution of the UN System to International Development Cooperation

Appendix: A Bird's-Eye View of ODA to Developing Countries and Multilateral Institutions

Notes

Index

About the Author

About the United Nations Intellectual History Project.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-29337-0

9786612293375

0-253-00332-6

OCLC:

503473319