Paul Streeten looks at how UN agencies and other international and regional organizations could become more responsive to the demands and needs of the global civil society. He suggests that with the end of the Cold War there could now be a more creative adaptation to the new power constellations...

Paul Streeten proposes four reasons to revise old ideas of the role of a university, of higher education, and of research. He suggests that the emphasis on pure research (at least in economics) in the universities of the North has been overdone. He feels that research economists have focused on...