Search Results for United Nations Development Program

...Maria Bach; Mary S. Morgan This article examines how the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) redefined their idea of development over the two decades from 1990, no longer presenting it as only a matter of economic progress but instead focusing more on the problem of poverty and its reduction...

... relatively simple to relatively complex measurement systems. This article charts these changes using both the oral interview histories and retrospective book accounts given by those involved with the United Nations Development Programme and offers an analysis of their “political economy of numbers...

..., if only in passing, between 1930 and 1950 (e.g., Schultz 1932, 1941). Around 1950, he began a research program intended to explain the historical emergence of large and persis- tent differences in average incomes across different agricultural areas of the United States. One source...

... Common Market Secretariat in Central America SSRC Social Science Research Council (USA) UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations Development Program UNICAMP State...

... Craig N. 2006 . The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? New York : Cambridge University Press . Myrdal Gunnar . 1968 . Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations . 3 vols . New York : Twentieth Century Fund . Oman Charles P. Wignaraja Ganeshan...

... and External Dependence in Latin America .” Journal of Development Studies 61 : 23 – 48 . Turnham David . 1971 . The Employment Problem in Less Developed Countries: A Review of the Evidence . Paris : OECD . United Nations Development Programme . 1990 . Human Development Report 1990...

... American, 360 280-8 1 United Nations Development Program Teijeiro, Mario, 3 10 (UNDP), 326; India and, 85, 87 Textbooks, economics: American, 70; United States: Korean economics and Australian, 68-70 rehashing of American academic...

... as in state economic and statistical agencies and international agencies ranging from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to the United Nations Development Programme (Afsa et al. 2009). In their report, Afsa et al. (2009) compile information on thirty extant indexes, but note...

..., the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and the World Bank (Kornai 1979 ). Obviously, project evaluation did not end with quantifying the resources deployed, and the need for evaluating interventions in terms of costs, benefits, and qualitative...

... approaches of Nussbaum and Sen has [sic] inspired the creation of the United Nations Development Programmes s Human Develop- ment Index, which has become a tool of contemporary political economy, it is clear that Nussbaum and Sen s theories are theories of political economy. That further supports my argument...

..., as is the case with the social indicators movement, which initiated ve decades 420 History of Political Economy 52:3 (2020) of attempts to quantify and compare levels of life and well-being (Land and Michalos 2018). In this issue, Bach and Morgan use the case of the United Nations Development Program s...

... of Bolsa Família (family grant) Brazil s most success- ful conditional cash transfer program and several other social policies, he published two edited volumes bringing together experts from the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, ECLAC, Princeton, 568 History of Political Economy 52:3...

... Doctrines of John Maynard Keynes (New York, 1938) pp. 15-27. . “Testimony.” U.S. Cong., 76th Cong., 1st Sess. Temporary National Economic Committee. Hearings Part 9 (1939): 3520-38. -. The Basis of a Development Program for Colombia. Baltimore, 1950. -. Unpublished Memoir...

..., and living standards. Soon after, the United Nations (1950) formed an expert commit- tee on how to attain full employment. Along with domestic measures, the committee recommended a meeting of the governments of interested countries in order to develop a joint programme designed to establish, at a reasonably...

... develop their economies in return (Hutcheson 1949 : 66). In December 1944, Roosevelt appointed Rockefeller to be an assistant secretary of state, who envisioned integrating and expanding the different international programs of the United States. Rockefeller wrote a memorandum proposing long-term...

... program was to be set up to relieve the economic and social distress upon which communism fed. Taylor (143-44) argues that the goal of the Point Four program adumbrated Rostow's "stages," by recognizing that necessary conditions must be met before a developing nation can efficiently utilize large amounts...

... summer institute on economic development organized by Vanderbilt in 1954, which laid the groundwork for the Graduate Program in Economic Development. At the time, he was engaged in a series of studies of the developmental problems associated with the Tennessee Valley region (Nicholls 1956, 1957a, 1957b...

... in the monetary area and in exchange; the BNDE (National Eco- nomic and Social Development Bank), and the CFCE (Federal Council for Foreign Trade) (Loureiro 1992). Since the 1970s, university courses, in particular graduate programs, have become the principal mechanism for training specialists...

... that policymakers could use the simulation program for the purpose of socioeconomic engineering, for example, to decide which wage policies would ef ciently reduce gender-wage gaps or to esti- mate the future caseload of welfare programs. Eventually, microsimula- tion developed from a product of Orcutt s dream...

... institutional task. l8 ECLA’s pub- lications, including a scholarly journal, were distributed widely. Special attention and resources were devoted to the education of Latin Ameri- can economist ECLA training program was initiated in 1953, when no texts on economic development...