The United Nations Development Program: follow-up investment and procurement benefits

1979 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Auerbach ◽  
Yoshinobu Yonekawa
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
United Nations Development Program ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is the major technical assistance fund in the UN family of institutions. By purchasing goods and services, it affects developed and developing states alike. As well as distributing assistance, UNDP attempts to stimulate follow-up investment and procures goods and services from member states. UNDP project expenditures are correlated with public and private follow-up investment, but the relationship is rather weak. On the procurement side, developed states receive subcontracts, equipment orders, and fellowship students in direct relationship to their contributions to UNDP, and developing states attract employment possibilities for their nationals as UNDP experts in direct relationship to their contributions. Developed states receive the largest returns from UNDP procurement. Providing multilateral assistance is UNDP's primary activity, but the purchase of equipment, the generation of investment opportunities, and the employment of experts provide economic incentives for both developing and developed states.

The Capacity of the United Nations Development Program: The Jackson Report

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 938-949
Author(s):  
Johan Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
United Nations Development Program ◽  
Cooperative Effort ◽  
Interorganizational Cooperation ◽  
Quantitative Development ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Nations Development

Partly by design, partly by coincidence the twelve months from September 1969 to September 1970 saw an “explosion” of reports about development problems. This article is particularly concerned with one of these, Sir Robert Jackson's A Study of the Capacity of the United Nations Development System. While the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) covers only a minor percentage of total assistance extended to less developed countries, its significance reaches beyond its quantitative development impact It has become the single most important United Nations cooperative effort and, more generally, represents an unprecedented example of intergovernmental and interorganizational cooperation.

United Nations Headquarters: Alternatives for Expansion

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman J. Padelford
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Development Program ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
United Nations Development Program ◽  
Working Space ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Dining Room ◽  
Nations Development

The United Nations is approaching a point where a decision must soon be reached concerning the expansion of its present facilities. Notwithstanding the increases which have been made in delegate seating in the General Assembly Hall, the Council chambers, and the conference rooms in recent years, these are now filled almost to capacity as additional political entities have been accorded membership. The delegates' lounge and dining room are uncomfortably crowded during Assembly sessions. In the Secretariat the staffs of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) have been moved to rented quarters in order to relieve overcrowding and to obtain adequate working space. The Secretary-General has reported to the General Assembly that the Headquarters buildings are now “completely occupied” and that plans must be made to provide adequate office space for the personnel expected to be on hand in the 1970's, assuming that the United Nations continues to remain an active force in international affairs.

scholarly journals An Alternative Human Development Index Considering Unemployment

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Taner ◽  
Bülent Sezen ◽  
Hakan Mıhcı
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
United Nations Development Program ◽  
Development Index ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development

An Alternative Human Development Index Considering UnemploymentThe Human Development Index (HDI) has played an influential role in the debate on human development (HD) for many years. However, no index is perfect and neither is the HDI of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). This paper aims to construct a new composite index for the development performance of a sample of 30 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries by adding a fourth indicator, namely the unemployment index, to the calculation of HDI. The addition of the unemployment factor to the HDI as a new indicator has the potential to make the index more comprehensive and present a suitable approach for assessing the development performance of countries.

Multidimensional Poverty Indices

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Yves Duclos ◽  
Luca Tiberti
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Poverty Index ◽  
United Nations Development Program ◽  
Multiple Deprivation ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty Index ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development

This chapter reviews and assesses issues involved in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, in particular the soundness of the various “axioms” and properties often imposed on poverty indices. It argues that some of these properties (such as those relating poverty and inequality) may be sound in a unidimensional setting but not so in a multidimensional one. Second, it addresses critically some of the features of recently proposed multidimensional poverty indices, in particular the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently put forward by the United Nations Development Program. The MPI suffers from several unattractive features that need to be better understood (given the prominence of the index). The MPI fails in particular to meet all of three properties that one would expect multidimensional poverty indices to obey: continuity, monotonicity, and sensitivity to multiple deprivation. Robustness techniques to address some of the shortcomings of the use of such indices are briefly advocated.

scholarly journals Predicament of Lebanese Women Married to Non-Lebanese: Field Analytical Study

1970 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Fahmia Charafeddine
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Development Program ◽  
National Committee ◽  
United Nations Development Program ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Nationality Law

The Lebanese Women’s Rights and the Nationality Law project is a joint projectbetween civil society and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). It isimplemented by the National Committee for the Follow up on Women’s Issues (CFUWI)and funded by UNDP. It aims at achieving equality between men and women in the field of citizenship. The project is not the first of its kind in Lebanon with respect to gender equality and citizenship, but it does present a new methodology to deal with this issue.

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