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Reforming the UN system : UNIDO's need-driven model / by Carlos A. Magariños ... [et al.].
- Title
- Reforming the UN system : UNIDO's need-driven model / by Carlos A. Magariños ... [et al.].
- Publication
- The Hague ; New York : Kluwer Law International, c2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Magariños, Carlos A.
- Description
- xix, 182 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume discusses the rationale for and against multilateral development cooperation, with particular attention to international industrial development during the post-cold war era. It also documents how UNIDO has successfully transformed itself to contribute effectively to the global supply of international public goods within the purview of its mandate. A foreword by U.K. Secretary Clare Short illustrates the good reception that such transformation has elicited amongst the donor community as well as its demonstration and potential spillover effects on the whole of the UN system. The book, which contains testimonies of ambassadors of UNIDO's stakeholder countries as well as contributions by Messrs. J.
- D.-Martinussen, former Head of the Danish Mission for UNIDO's assessment and R. Ricupero, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), can be expected to become an indispensable reference work for students of UN affairs and the international relations and development policy communities at large."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Nijhoff law specials ; v. 49
- Uniform Title
- Nijhoff law specials ; 49.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Clare Short -- Preface / Carlos A. Magarinos -- 1. The Cases for Reform -- 2. The Need for Reform -- 3. Sustainable Industrialization and Development: the Role of UNIDO -- 4. The Evolution of UNIDO -- 5. From Crisis to the Danish Assessment and the Business Plan -- 6. The Transformation of UNIDO -- 7. Conclusions -- Annex. The Structure of the UN System -- App. I. International Economic and Social Cooperation in the UN Charter -- App. II. Main UN intergovernmental and expert bodies in the economic, social and human rights field.
- ISBN
- 9041116699 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001044302
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library