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Human Development and Global Institutions - Evolution, impact, reform (Paperback, New)
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Human Development and Global Institutions - Evolution, impact, reform (Paperback, New)
Series: Global Institutions
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This book provides a timely and accessible introduction to the
foundational ideas associated with the human development school of
thought. It examines its conceptual evolution during the
post-colonial era, and discusses how various institutions of the UN
system have tried to engage with this issue, both in terms of
intellectual and technical advance, and operationally. Showing that
human development has had a profound impact on shaping the policy
agenda and programming priorities of global institutions, it argues
that human development has helped to preserve the continued
vitality of major multilateral development programs, funds, and
agencies. It also details how human development faces new risks and
threats, caused by political, economic, social, and environmental
forces which are highlighted in a series of engaging case studies
on trade, water, energy, the environment, democracy, human rights,
and peacebuilding. The book also makes the case for why human
development remains relevant in an increasingly globalized world,
while asking whether global institutions will be able to sustain
political and moral support from their member states and powerful
non-state actors. It argues that fresh new perspectives on human
development are now urgently needed to fill critical gaps across
borders and entire regions. A positive, forward-looking agenda for
the future of global governance would have to engage with new
issues such as the Sustainable Development Goals, energy
transitions, resource scarcity, and expansion of democratic
governance within and between nations. Redefining the overall
nature and specific characteristics of what constitutes human
progress in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world,
this book serves as a primer for scholars and graduate students of
international relations and development. It is also relevant to
scholars of economics, political science, history, sociology, and
women's studies.
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