International Organizations and Development as a Global Mission

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
Sara Lorenzini
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Global Mission ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter explores how the growing awareness of the global dimensions of development had made international organizations, especially the United Nations, crucial to development thinking and practice. International organizations' involvement in development proceeded in stages, converging toward “one size fits all,” universal technocratic knowledge, and solutions unconnected to cultural specificities, even if distinctive in their ideological orientation. In the 1990s, the naturalized French diplomat Stéphane Hessel wrote that development was a concept that informed the whole structure of the United Nations and gave it meaning. He claimed it took forty years to move from the black-and-white reasoning of the 1950s toward a more nuanced view. The chapter tells the story of this transformation. International organizations that had acted as agencies of civilization in late colonial times became arenas in which different ideas of modernity were articulated. Some, like the World Bank, were clearly the expression of a Western capitalist mindset, whereas others, like the United Nations, provided a home for both technocratic thinking and anti-imperialist ideas that differed from the prevailing modernization theory.

International Organization Documentation

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 270-272
Author(s):  
Robert W. Schaaf
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
World Health ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administrative Tribunal

Among the more interesting international publications that have come to the writer's attention recently is a five-volume set of Staff Regulations and Staff Rules of Selected International Organizations compiled by the World Bank Administrative Tribunal in Washington, D.C. As explained in the preface by the editor and Executive Secretary of the Tribunal, C.F. Amerasinghe, a need was felt to have ready access to a collection of staff regulations and rules in order to be able to compare administrative problems and situations in different international organizations. Thus, an effort was made to secure pertinent documents from both universal and regional intergovernmental agencies. The collection was made particularly for the judges of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal, but with the hope that the material would also be useful to others interested in international administrative law. The first four volumes were issued in January 1983; additional material subsequently became available and a fifth volume was issued in May 1983. The first volume (353 p.) includes reproductions of the regulations and rules of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the Inter-American Development Bank. Volume II (397 p.) covers Unesco, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Council of Europe, and the African Development Bank. Volume III (276 p.) covers the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (which became the International Maritime Organization in 1982), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Organization of American States. Volume IV (313 p.) covers the European Communities and the International Labor Organization. Volume V (369 p.) is devoted exclusively to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In every instance the rules are as up to date as could be obtained, and the introductory remarks in each volume provide brief details on the currency of the materials as well as information on major variations in the regulations of the organizations included. Because IGO staff regulations are difficult to obtain, this collection is a valuable work. The volumes are available free of charge as long as the supply lasts and may be ordered from the Office of the Executive Secretary, World Bank Administrative Tribunal, 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20433.

scholarly journals Governance of the “Big Five”

2021 ◽  
pp. 337-393
Author(s):  
Uma Lele ◽  
Brian C. Baldwin ◽  
Sambuddha Goswami
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

In this chapter, key issues facing governance of international organizations are discussed, as operating arms of global governance in the larger context of global governance of food and agriculture—specifically, in the context of the United Nations’ financing. Governance of each of the five international organizations is outlined: how the organizations were originally structured and financed; how financing relates to the organizational structure and governance; and how the formal and informal voices of members are exercised are discussed, with respect to the choice of leadership and the substantive content of what the organizations do and how. Issues of coordination among the Rome-based agencies, the World Bank, and CGIAR are discussed, given that the world is undergoverned in relation to the challenges of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, confronting climate change, conflict, natural resource degradation, income inequality, persistent poverty, and growing hunger. With greater long-term, core-funding support, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) would be able to translate its guidelines into operations to combat climate change and promote conservation agriculture and its Codex Alimentarius into food safety. With collaboration with the World Food Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Bank, FAO can help move fragile countries into rehabilitation, reconstruction, and development. CGIAR can use long-term funding, while the World Bank and IFAD can support the building of delivery systems.

Conference on the Role of Industrialisation in Developing Countries

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-442
Author(s):  
Ronald Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

At the fourth Cambridge conference on development problems, the role of industry was discussed by ministers, senior officials, economic advisers, and business executives, from 22 African, Asian, and Caribbean countries, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Have some, if not all, of Africa's new nations now reached the stage when it would pay them to put their biggest bets on quick industrialisation? Or must they go on putting most of their money and brains into bringing about an agricultural revolution first, before striving for industrial take-off? These questions started the conference off on one of its big themes.

El Salvador's “Model” Democracy

2005 ◽  
Vol 104 (679) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Holiday
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
United Nations ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
World Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Us Government ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation

In the immediate aftermath of the 1992 peace accords, El Salvador was cited frequently by the United Nations and even the World Bank as a country that, with the international community's help, effectively managed its transition from civil war to peace and reconciliation. Thirteen years later, only the US government views the Salvadoran model so favorably.

Knowledge Societies in China, Portugal, and Uganda

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-50
Author(s):  
Nuno Vasco Lopes ◽  
Kenneth Bagarukayo ◽  
Jun Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
International Telecommunication Union ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) Member States subscribed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the 2030 Agenda (General Assembly 2015). This work makes an analysis on how Knowledge Societies can effectively contribute for the achievements of the Agenda's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, it will be presented the research overview conducted by UNU-EGOV for producing the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Knowledge Societies Handbook (UNESCO/IFAP and UNU-EGOV 2016). In addition, three countries from three different Continents of Asia, Europe and Africa - China, Portugal and Uganda respectively - will be analyzed in the context of the knowledge societies architecture proposed in the handbook. For making that analysis a set of indicators collected from the “The World Bank” (The World Bank 2016) and “International Telecommunication Union” (ITU) (ITU 2015) databases have been selected. The indicators have been interpreted taking into consideration the socio-cultural, political, and economic context of each of the three countries.

scholarly journals Green Growth Is Trusted To Fix Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-08
Author(s):  
Robert Skopec
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Economic System ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Main Strategy

'Greening' our current economic system can only take us so far. GTS/Shutterstock You may have missed it, but a recent report declared that the main strategy of world leaders for tackling climate change won’t work. It’s called green growth, and it’s favoured by some of the largest and most influential organisations in the world, including the United Nations and the World Bank.

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