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Official History of UNDP Craig N. Murphy was working for the United Nations Development Programme on an official history, The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of UNDP's official founding and the 60th anniversary of the UN's first discussions on technical assistance. The book is an accessible comprehensive history of UNDP, encompassing its origins, structure and growth, a candid overview and assessment of successes and failures and its different role in different countries and regions. It explores UNDP's role within the global development arena, including its changing relationship with the Bretton Woods Institutions and bilateral agencies as well as the wider United Nations system, including the various efforts at reform dating from the 1970s to the present day. The analysis is situated within the changing political and economic context in which UNDP has had to operate, from decolonization to globalization, from the Cold War to the War on Terror. It will focus on UNDP's role both intellectually and in country operations in the great development debates of the late twentieth century, such as structural adjustment, and from the articulation of Human Development to the Millennium Development Goals. For more information, please contact: Craig N. Murphy M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations |
