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The future UN development agenda: contrasting visions, contrasting operations

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  • Stephen Browne
  • Thomas G. Weiss

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‘Sustainable development’ – as currently and politically correctly formulated – provides an inappropriate basis on which to frame a future-oriented UN agenda, and risks perpetuating patterns of assistance in which most UN organisations perform poorly and in the shadow of alternative and more able multilateral and bilateral sources. UN operations should take as their point of departure the comprehensive agenda outlined by the two world summits of 2000 and 2005. This agenda recognises the value-based UN as the only universal-membership organisation, which combines the concerns of satisfying human needs while ensuring security, human rights, justice and sound governance. The post-2015 agenda should not look only at development and environment but aspire to what a million global voices canvassed by the UN in ‘the world we want’ campaign are clamouring for.

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  • Stephen Browne & Thomas G. Weiss, 2014. "The future UN development agenda: contrasting visions, contrasting operations," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(7), pages 1326-1340, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:35:y:2014:i:7:p:1326-1340
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2014.915160
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    1. Bernhard Reinsberg, 2017. "Organizational reform and the rise of trust funds: Lessons from the World Bank," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 12(2), pages 199-226, June.
    2. Carlos Solar, 2019. "Chile’s Peacekeeping and the Post-UN Intervention Scenario in Haiti," International Studies, , vol. 56(4), pages 272-291, October.
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    4. Klaus H. Goetz & Ronny Patz & Bernhard Reinsberg, 2017. "Trust Funds as a Lever of Influence at International Development Organizations," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 8, pages 85-95, August.

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