The United Nations and the emergence of the ‘Third World’

2016 ◽  
pp. 38-64
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Third World

Death and Transfiguration in the Third World

Worldview ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irving Louis Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The Third ◽  
International Economic Cooperation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Third World

The Conference on International Economic Cooperation has all the appearances of a floating crap game: After the windup of this eighteenmonth Paris conference it moves over to UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. This points up the need for the U.N. to sponsor a permanent international clearinghouse on the exchange of data and the pricing of world goods and commodities. It would function as a sort of securities and commodities exchange commission that remains sensitive to the varieties of economic systems and mixtures, but is somehow able to establish guidelines on the relative values of goods, services, and commodities. Such an institutionbuilding process was a major recommendation of the Second International Conference on Environment and Society.

The Limits of U.N. Intervention in the Third World

1968 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest W. Lefever
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Third World ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Third ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Third World

The strangely unreal debate on the feasibility of United Nations intervention in Rhodesia or South Africa (to overthrow “colonialist” regimes) or in Vietnam (to stop or deescalate a war) would benefit from a more serious examination of the largest and most daring U.N. experiment on record. The Congo peacekeeping operation was unique, controversial and costly. The growing body of empirical data about this four-year operation provides a solid basis for understanding the severe limits of the United Nations as an instrument for political reform and crisis management in the Third World, to say nothing of the more difficult tasks of state-building and nation-building.

Biotechnology and the Third World: the missing link between research and applications

Genome ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 1046-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Zilinskas
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Industrial Marketing ◽  
The Third ◽  
Capability Building ◽  
The Third World

A United Nations University study investigated the activities of four major United Nations agencies that focussed on helping developing countries gain advanced capabilities in biotechnology. Relevant program and project documents were scrutinized at agency headquarters and managers were interviewed. Then, projects underway in three case countries (Egypt, Thailand, and Venezuela) were examined. The resulting information was used to assess whether United Nations projects were fulfilling these countries' needs and (or) advancing their capabilities in biotechnology. The minute, United Nations originated assistance available was directed solely at increasing capabilities in research and thus benefited bioscientists and their institutes. However, as virtually no linkage exists between the research establishment and the industrial–marketing sector, results from indigenous research does not reach industrialists or health workers. Consequently, biotechnology is neither advancing economic development in the case countries nor helping solve national problems. This situation is likely to persist because corrective systemic changes will be difficult to implement. Major implications of these findings are discussed, particularly as they bear on the United Nations system.Key words: Third World biotechnology, capability building in biotechnology, United Nations assistance, Egypt, Thailand, Venezuela.

Restructuring Transnational Mineral Agreements

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel K. B. Asante
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Third World ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Third World

Within our own generation no less than 70 countries have attained political independence and joined the international community of nation states. Third World countries now command a preponderant majority in the United Nations and other world bodies, yet it is trite knowledge that the attainment of political independence and the proliferation of nation states in the Third World have had little impact on the world economic power structure. Access to the corridors of the United Nations and other international bodies has not necessarily assured effective participation in the shaping and restructuring of the world economic system. After the first flush of exhilaration over political independence, developing countries have now grasped the sobering fact that sovereignty is not synonymous with economic self-sufficiency or development and that the rich industrialized countries still substantially control the production and distribution of the world’s resources. An analysis of European direct investment in Africa shows that by the end of 1967 the former metropolitan powers still dominated investments in their former colonies. (The percentage of the total foreign investments in these African countries held by the former imperial powers is illustrated in table 1.)

World Health Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-505
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Third World ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Health Assembly ◽  
The Third ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Third World

Third World Health AssemblyDelegates and observers from over 63 countries and territories, and observers from other specialized agencies of the United Nations and interested non-governmental organizations attended the Third World Health Assembly, which met in Geneva from May 8 to May 27, 1950. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Minister of Health of India, was unanimously elected President of the Assembly, which discussed three main topics: the program for 1951, the budget and other financial questions, and constitutional questions.

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