UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice

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UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once ahistory of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classicaleconomists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role inshaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. Theauthors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN'sfounding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and humanconcerns that are at the center of the UN's thinking on economic and humandevelopment today. In the intervening period, the authors show how the UN's approachto development evolved from mainstream areas of economic development to includeissues of employment, poverty reduction, fairer distribution of the benefits ofgrowth, equality of men and women, child development, social justice, andenvironmental sustainability.