The UN and development : from aid to cooperation /

The UN and Development provides the first comprehensive overview of the development policies and activities of the United Nations system from the late 1940s to the present. With an explicit focus on the history of the ideas that have been generated, institutionalized, and implemented by UN organizat...

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Main Author: Stokke, Olav, 1934-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2009.
Series:United Nations intellectual history project (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Boxes and Tables
  • Foreword
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. The Emergence of International Development Assistance: 1. Pre-Aid Traditions and Ideas and the Institutional Heritage
  • 2. The Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance
  • 3. A UN Fund for Economic Development
  • 4. First Steps Down the Road: What Can the Footprints Tell?
  • Part 2. The Formative Years: 5. The First Development Decade: An Instrument of Persuasion?
  • 6. The Second Development Decade
  • 7. The United Nations Development Programme, 1966-1981: Surplus Food for Development and Relief
  • 9. The 1960s and 1970s: Perspectives on Development
  • Part 3. The Lost Decade and a New Beginning: 10. Visions and Priorities for the 1990s: The United Nations Strategy for the Fourth Development Decade
  • 11. The Revival of the Social and Human Dimensions of Development
  • 12. Evolving Priorities, Patterns, and Trends, 1982-2005
  • 13. Food Aid: From Development to Humanitarian Relief
  • 14. The Long Road toward the Millennium Development Goals
  • 15. The Contribution of the UN System to International Development Cooperation
  • Appendix: A Bird's-Eye View of ODA to Developing Countries and Multilateral Institutions.