A Development Economist in the United Nations: Reasons for Hope

ISBN-13: 9780367629809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 160 str.

Richard Jolly

Opis

This book explores the joys and occasional frustrations of a development economist working for the United Nations.

Spis treści

Introduction  1.UN development- more pioneering and professional than generally realized  2.Early Life, One Life-Changing Event and Four People  3.Discovering development -Baringo, Kenya  4.Cuba – close-up to the revolution and the Cuban missile crisis  5.Education, UNESCO and ECA  6.Zambia – My first UN mission in the heady days of African Independence  7.Applied Economics in Cambridge and in oil-rich Abu Dhabi  8.ILO and the IDS- employment policy in Colombia, Sri Lanka and Kenya  9.UNICEF -global goals and lessons of successful implementation  10.UNICEF Economists and children  11.UNDP and Human Development  12.UN Ideas that Changed the World  13.The Third UN and the North-South Roundtable  14.Final Words

O autorze

Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. He was UNICEF’s Deputy Executive Director (1982–1995), Principal Coordinator and co-author of UNDP’s widely acclaimed Human Development Report (1996–2000) and Co-Director of the UN Intellectual History Project (2000–2010). He has written many articles and books on development, including (with Louis Emmerij and Thomas G. Weiss) UN Ideas That Changed the World (2009) and UNICEF: Global Governance That Works (2014). In 2001, he was knighted for services to the UN and international development.