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UN contributions to development thinking and practice /

Annotation UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practiceis 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 ov...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jolly, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Colección:United Nations intellectual history project (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.