UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice

Richard Jolly, Special Adviser to the Administrator Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, Dharam Ghai, édéric Lapeyre — 2004

The authors argue that the UN Charter is infused with the human values & human concerns that are at the centre of the UN's thinking on economic & human development today. They show how the UN's approach to development has evolved to include a broad range of social issues, from poverty reduction to equality.