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UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice
Richard Jolly,
Louis Emmerij,
Dharam Ghai, and
Frederic Lapeyre
An overview of the evolution of
post World War II ideas on development from priorities for capital investment
and growth in the 1950s, comprehensive strategies in the 1960s, the
emphases on employment, poverty and distribution in the 1970s and the
new orthodoxies of the 1980s and 1990s as debated, adopted, promoted,
adopted and implemented by the UN. Issues covered in this volume are:
- A normative framework for development policies at
the beginning of the 21st century.
- Development thinking: lost and rediscovered.
- The evolution of UN development practice.
- UN contributions in basic sectors and human development
- The international dimensions of development.
- Regional perspectives and case studies.
- Important contributions and omissions.
- Lessons for the future: Toward development policies
for the 21st century.
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