UN Contributions to Development Thinking and PracticeUN 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 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
Has There Been Progress? Values and Criteria for UN History | 3 |
The History of Development Thinking from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes | 16 |
Ideas and Action | 47 |
The Foundations of UN Development Thinking and Practice | 49 |
The UN Development DecadeMobilizing for Development | 85 |
1 | 101 |
Equity in Development | 111 |
1 | 124 |
Structural and Sectoral Change | 241 |
The Record of Performance | 247 |
3 | 248 |
16 | 249 |
85 | 255 |
UN Contributions and Missed Opportunities | 276 |
1 An Overview of UN Contributions to Development | 278 |
Development Thinking | 299 |
Losing Control and Marginalizing the Poorest | 138 |
2 | 154 |
Rediscovering a Human Vision | 169 |
Building the Human Foundations | 186 |
1 | 200 |
2 | 215 |
1 | 230 |
Boxes Tables and Figures | 232 |