In this Book
- UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: United Nations Intellectual History Project Series
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 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.
Table of Contents
- Boxes, Tables, and Figures
- pp. vii-viii
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xviii
- Part I. Values and History
- Part II. Ideas and Action
- 5 The 1970s: Equity in Development
- pp. 111-137
- 7 The 1990s: Rediscovering a Human Vision
- pp. 169-185
- 8 Building the Human Foundations
- pp. 186-219
- 9 Structural and Sectoral Change
- pp. 220-244
- Part III. Outcomes and the Future
- 10 The Record of Performance
- pp. 247-275
- 11 UN Contributions and Missed Opportunities
- pp. 276-298
- About the Authors
- pp. 385-386
- About the Project
- p. 387