UN contributions to development thinking and practice

Richard Jolly ... [et al.]

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 th

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Alternative title:	United Nations contributions to development thinking and practice
Year of publication:	c2004
Other Persons:	Jolly, Richard (contributor)
Publisher:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Subject:	Entwicklungstheorie \| Development theory \| Entwicklungspolitik \| Development policy
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (xviii, 387 p) ill 24 cm
Series:	United Nations intellectual history project
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-367) and index Cover; TOC; List of Boxes, Tables, and Figures; Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Has There Been Progress? Values and Criteria for UN History; 2 The History of Development Thinking from Adam Smith toJohn Maynard Keynes; 3 The 1940s and 1950s: The Foundations of UN DevelopmentThinking and Practice; 4 The 1960s: The UN Development Decade-Mobilizing forDevelopment; 5 The 1970s: Equity in Development; 6 The 1980s: Losing Control and Marginalizing the Poorest; 7 The s: Rediscovering a Human Vision 8 Building the Human Foundations9 Structural and Sectoral Change; 10 The Record of Performance; 11 UN Contributions and Missed Opportunities; 12 Lessons for the Future: Development Thinking andthe UN's Future; Appendix: Country Categories and Distribution ofPopulation and GDP by Regions; Notes; Index; About the Authors; About the Project Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-253-21684-2 ; 0-253-34407-7 ; 978-0-253-34407-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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