Articles liés à The United Nations Development Programme
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Synopsis
A new definitive history of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), covering its founding in the aftermath of the Second World War to its present day and future prospects. The UNDP is the largest UN programme and at the centre of the network of institutions that carry out the global work of development. Active in more than 160 countries, the UNDP sponsors the global, regional, national, and local Human Development Reports that have transformed development economics and the practice of most development agencies, including the World Bank. Based on research that included access to the UN's entire global network and interviews with more than 400 members of staff, this new book also reveals unknown stories about the 'development of the development enterprise', examines the contribution made by key figures and addresses UNDP controversies including, racism, neo-colonialism, sexism and concerns that complacency, inefficiency, and immorality that have crept into the UN system. This lively scholarly book will be of general interest to those concerned with contemporary global history and questions of development, democracy, and peace. It will be of particular interest to students of development and of international affairs.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
The United Nations Development Programme is the central network co-ordinating the work of the United Nations in over 160 developing countries. This 2006 book provides the first authoritative and accessible history of the Programme and its predecessors. Based on the findings of hundreds of interviews and archives in more than two dozen countries, Craig Murphy traces the history of the UNDP's organizational structure and mission, its relationship to the multilateral financial institutions, and the development of its doctrines. He argues that the principles on which the UNDP was founded remain as relevant in a world divided by terrorism as they were in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, as are the fundamental problems that have plagued the Programme from its origin, including the opposition of traditionally isolationist forces in the industrialized world.
Biographie de l'auteur
Craig N. Murphy is the Historian of the United Nations Development Programme and Professor of International Relations at Wellesley College. He is past president of the International Studies Association and co-founder of the international public policy journal, Global Governance. Craig has written and edited several books, the most recent being Global Institutions, Marginalization, and Development (2005).
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