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Informationen zum Autor Richard Jolly is Senior Research Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Louis Emmerij is Senior Research Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Dharam Ghai is Advisor to the International Labour Organization. Frédéric Lapeyre is Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, Catholic University of Louvain, and a member of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Offers a history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical economists to the emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in shaping and implementing development paradigms. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Boxes, Tables, and Figures Foreword by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Part I. Values and History 1. Has There Been Progress? Values and Criteria for UN History 2. The History of Development Thinking from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes Part II. Ideas and Action 3. The 1940s and 1950s: The Foundations of UN Development Thinking and Practice 4. The 1960s: The UN Development Decade-Mobilizing for Development 5. The 1970s: Equity in Development 6. The 1980s: Losing Control and Marginalizing the Poorest 7. The 1990s: Rediscovering a Human Vision 8. Building the Human Foundations 9. Structural and Sectoral Change Part III. Outcomes and the Future 10. The Record of Performance 11. UN Contributions and Missed Opportunities 12. Lessons for the Future: Development Thinking and the UN's Future Appendix: ILO Special Topics Notes Index About the Authors About the UN Intellectual History Project ...
