UN contributions to development thinking and practice / Richard Jolly ... [et al.].

• Superior document: United Nations intellectual history project
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Jolly, Richard.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: United Nations intellectual history project.
• Physical Description: xviii, 387 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

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.