Unity and Diversity in Development Ideas: Perspectives from the Un Regional Commissions

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This second volume from the United Nations Intellectual History Projectsurveys the history of the UN's regional commissions and the ideas they havedeveloped over the last 40 years. Each essay is devoted to one of the five regionalcommissions -- Europe, Asia and the Far East, Latin America, Africa, and WesternAsia -- and how it has approached its mission of assessing the condition of regionaleconomies and making prognoses about future conditions. The essays describe how eachcommission has added local perspectives to global debates over economic developmentand brought an authentic regional voice to the UN. Contributorsare Adebayo Adedeji, Yves Berthelot, Leelananda de Silva, Blandine Destremau, PaulRayment, and Gert Rosenthal.

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