The UN and Development : From Aid to Cooperation

Olav Stokke

ISBN 10: 0253220815 / ISBN 13: 9780253220813

Published by Indiana University Press Jul 2009, 2009

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Neuware - 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 organizations, this book examines changing trends in development paradigms from the concept of technical assistance to underdeveloped countries, as they were called in the late 1940s, to development cooperation in the 21st century. Olav Stokke traces this fascinating story and demonstrates the UN's essential role and its future challenges in aiding the least developed countries and the globe's billion poorest inhabitants.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The UN and Development : From Aid to Cooperation
• Publisher: Indiana University Press Jul 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253220815
• ISBN 13: 9780253220813
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 158H x 46D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 158 millimeters height by 46 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1058 grams

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Synopsis

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 organizations, this book examines changing trends in development paradigms from the concept of technical assistance to underdeveloped countries, as they were called in the late 1940s, to development cooperation in the 21st century. Olav Stokke traces this fascinating story and demonstrates the UN's essential role and its future challenges in aiding the least developed countries and the globe's billion poorest inhabitants.

About the Author

Olav Stokke is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and former editor of the Nordic journal Forum for Development Studies. His books include Perspectives on European Development Co-operation, with Paul Hoebink; Food Aid and Human Security, with Edward Clay; and Policy Coherence in Development Co-operation, with Jacques Forster.