Dinosaurs or Dynamos: The United Nations and the World Bank at the Turn of the Century

ISBN-13: 9781138471566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Helge OLE Bergesen

Opis

Explores how much and what the World Bank and the United Nations can really be expected to achieve. This book gives an account of the evolution of the two organizations as multilateral development institutions and then focuses on the functions that the World Bank and the UN carry out, and the governing structures that underlie their activities.

Spis treści

Introduction * Framework of Analysis * The UN from Past to Present * The World Bank from Past to Present * The UN and the World Bank: Comparing their Current Predicament * Global Goods and Bads * Donor Support - Implications for the Future of the UN and the World Bank * Appendix * Notes * References * Index

O autorze

Helge Ole Bergesen is a political scientist at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute at Lysaker. He has published widely on international energy issues, North-South conflict and environmental matters.

Leiv Lunde is State Secretary for Development and Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway. He was formally consultant with ECON, Centre for Economic Analysis, Oslo.