International Organizations and Global Development / Nicholas Ferns.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- International organizations and development -- Development, international organizations and international economic thinking: a conceptual contribution -- The legacy of Mahbub ul Haq: Exploring human development and economic rights at the United Nations -- Development beyond the golden era: CEPAL in the global 1970s -- Planning growth and population. The debate on population and development at the UN and the origins of UNFPA -- An unfinished mission: UNESCO in deploying science and education for global development, 1945-1956 -- The WFP 1968-72 rural housing program in Morocco -- The politicization of development: Oxfam and the idea of a rights-based humanitarian action in the Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras during the 1980s -- Human rights and development: The World Bank, Amnesty International, and the history of a difficult relationship -- The titans and tensions of progressive era philanthropy in global development -- List of Contributors.

The third issue of the Yearbook on the History of Global Development aims at collecting contributions about the role of international organizations in shaping the global system of development throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. International organizations - both intergovernmental and NGOs - have played a crucial role, shaping the global system of development by setting agendas, mobilizing people, and framing ideas and practices regarding development on local, national, regional, and global scales.

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