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  • DEVELOPING CAPACITY THROUGH TECHNICAL COOPERATION
    STEPHEN BROWNE
    Technical co-operation involving northern experts transferring expertise to the south has not always worked. In fact it has sometimes been counter-productive, fostering a dependency on outside help rather than creating a genuine indigenous capability. This study by experts from Harvard University and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) uses a range of country studies to analyze...

    $980.00

  • AID AND INFLUENCE
    STEPHEN BROWNE
    This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head. Since development assistance is inherently self-interested, a source of soft power, political manipulation and commercial opportunity, its real effectiveness could arguably be judged by the strength of donor influence and not by development impact. Its subjective nature means that its impact on development is oft...

    $980.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK ON THE UN AND DEVELOPMENT
    STEPHEN BROWNE / ‎THOMAS G WEISS
    International commissions, academics, practitioners, and the media have long been critical of the UN’s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding. This handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the organization and ar...

    $1,199.00

  • BEYOND AID
    STEPHEN BROWNE
    First published in 1999, Browne creates a comprehensive assessment of post war development assistance in developing countries. Browne suggests that a better managed global environment, developing counties could further advance themselves and thus minimising then diminishing their need for aid resources. ...

    $980.00

  • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND UN GOAL-SETTING
    STEPHEN BROWNE
    This book explores the record of the UN development system (UNDS) over more than 70 years as a fount of ideas and concepts in development; as a contributor to development thinking and strategy; and as the principal source of global development goals from the first UN Development Decade to the SDGs. It also examines the more mixed record of the UNDS in its operational role and a...

    $1,160.00

  • POST-2015 UN DEVELOPMENT
    STEPHEN BROWNE & THOMAS G. WEISS
    In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration included development targets to be reached by 2015, which were to become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Progress has been made towards the achievement of the MDGs, but poverty remains widespread. With the terminal year approaching, the interna...

    $1,320.00

  • UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME AND SYSTEM (UNDP)
    STEPHEN BROWNE
    This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world –the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The book: traces the origins and evolution of UNDP, outlining how a central UN funding mechanism and field network developed into a more comprehensive de...

    $1,160.00

  • UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
    STEPHEN BROWNE
    The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this book offers the first concise and accessible guide to this important organization. As the only UN organization to have been transformed from a UN secretariat entity to an independently governed UN...

    $1,200.00

  • THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE CENTRE
    STEPHEN BROWNE / SAM LAIRD
    In the era of rapid globalization, the ITC plays a significant and wide ranging role working with both governments and trade support institutions to nurture an export culture, this work will provide a much needed overview of this dynamic organization. This book: Details the history of the organization since its inception Examines its current mandate and the impact of recent ref...

    $1,160.00

  • THE IDES OF WAR
    STEPHEN HOWARD BROWNE
    A history and analysis of how George Washington stopped an attempted military coup at the end of the American Revolutionary War. History tells us that on a day when the forces of civil government confront the forces of military might, no one knows what may follow. Americans believe that they have avoided this moment, that whatever other challenges the country has faced, at leas...

    $251.00