Introduction -- International organisations and the challenge of global poverty -- Ethics, human rights and global justice -- UNDP : the human development paradigm -- The World Bank : the internal dynamics of a complex organization -- UNESCO : poverty as a violation of human rights -- The...

"The historic United Nations conferences and summits held in the 1990s and 2000s generated an unprecedented global consensus on a shared vision of development. That broad-based framework in turn laid the groundwork for the Millennium Summit, at which a series of challenging time-bound goals and...