A Development Economist in the United Nations : Reasons for Hope (Paperback)

Introduction 1.UN development- more pioneering and professional than generally realized 2.Early Life, One Life-Changing Event and Four People 3.Discovering development -Baringo, Kenya 4.Cuba ? close-up to the revolution and the Cuban missile crisis 5.Education, UNESCO and ECA 6.Zambia ? My first UN mission in the heady days of African Independence 7.Applied Economics in Cambridge and in oil-rich Abu Dhabi 8.ILO and the IDS- employment policy in Colombia, Sri Lanka and Kenya 9.UNICEF -global goals and lessons of successful implementation 10.UNICEF Economists and children 11.UNDP and Human Development 12.UN Ideas that Changed the World 13.The Third UN and the North-South Roundtable 14.Final Words