Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas : Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions.
Title:
Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas : Perspectives from the UN Regional Commissions.
Author:
Berthelot, Yves.
ISBN:
9780253110893
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Contents:
List of Boxes and Tables -- Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Unity and Diversity of Development:The Regional Commissions' Experience -- 2 The ECE: A Bridge between East and West -- 3 From ECAFE to ESCAP: Pioneering a Regional Perspective -- 4 ECLAC: A Commitment to a Latin American Waytoward Development -- 5 The ECA: Forging a Future for Africa -- 6 ESCWA: Striving for Regional Integration -- Appendix: Evolution of Membership in the FiveUN Regional Commissions, 1947-2000 -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors -- About the UN Intellectual History Project.
Abstract:
This second volume from the United Nations Intellectual History Project surveys the history of the UN's regional commissions and the ideas they have developed over the last 40 years. Each essay is devoted to one of the five regional commissions -- Europe, Asia and the Far East, Latin America, Africa, and Western Asia -- and how it has approached its mission of assessing the condition of regional economies and making prognoses about future conditions. The essays describe how each commission has added local perspectives to global debates over economic development and brought an authentic regional voice to the UN.Contributors are Adebayo Adedeji, Yves Berthelot, Leelananda de Silva, Blandine Destremau, Paul Rayment, and Gert Rosenthal.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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