03360nam 22006494a 450 991082250300332120200520144314.01-282-07184-X0-253-11101-3(CKB)1000000000243844(EBL)257249(OCoLC)71840942(SSID)ssj0000351150(PQKBManifestationID)11263202(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000351150(PQKBWorkID)10361965(PQKB)10691767(SSID)ssj0000263734(PQKBManifestationID)11205176(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263734(PQKBWorkID)10283873(PQKB)11678597(MiAaPQ)EBC257249(EXLCZ)99100000000024384420031208d2004 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrUN contributions to development thinking and practice /Richard Jolly ... [et al.]1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20041 online resource (409 p.)United Nations intellectual history projectDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-34407-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-367) and index.Has there been progress? : values and criteria for UN history -- The history of development thinking from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes -- The 1940s and 1950s : the foundations of UN development thinking and practice -- The 1960s : the UN development decade--mobilizing for development -- The 1970s : equity in development -- The 1980s : losing control and marginalizing the poorest -- The 1990s : rediscovering a human vision -- Building the human foundations -- Structural and sectoral change -- The record of performance -- UN contributions and missed opportunities -- Lessons for the future : development thinking and the UN's future -- Appendix: Country categories and distribution of population and GDP by regions.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 ofUnited Nations intellectual history project.United Nations contributions to development thinking and practiceEconomic developmentInternational cooperationHistoryHuman rightsEconomic aspectsPovertyPreventionEconomic developmentInternational cooperationHistory.Human rightsEconomic aspects.PovertyPrevention.338.9Jolly Richard118394MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822503003321UN contributions to development thinking and practice4204113UNINA