UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice [Paperback]

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 UNs 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 UNs founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human concerns that are at the center of the UNs thinking on economic and human development today. In the intervening period, the authors show how the UNs 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.

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 DecadeMobilizing 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

Richard Jolly is Senior Research Fellow at thl_