This edited volume provides an assessment of an increasingly fragmented aid system. Development cooperation is fundamentally changing its character in the wake of global economic and political transformations and an ongoing debate about what constitutes, and how best to achieve, global...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The United Nations and Development -- chapter 3 Poverty in the Americas -- chapter 4 Meeting Basic Human Needs -- chapter 5 Women in the Americas -- chapter 6 Promoting Gender Equity -- chapter 7 Ecology of the Americas -- chapter 8 Preserving Natural...