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1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- About the contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: development, the largest of four UN functions -- Some crucial considerations -- About this book -- NOTES -- Part I: Realizing the SDGs: opportunities and challenges -- Chapter 1: The UN development system: origins, structure, status -- The first new organizations -- Constant growth -- The UN approach to "development" -- Human development: an integrating framework -- UN goals and global conferences |
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UN operations -- The UN's development impact -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 2: The UN and development: objectives and governance -- The objectives of international development cooperation -- From the MDGs to the SDGs -- The governance of global development cooperation -- Conclusion: looking to the future -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 3: Emerging powers, a declining West, and multilateralism -- How the West weakens multilateralism -- Migration: why weaken multilateralism now? -- Can the Global South, especially Asia, save multilateralism? -- Conclusion -- NOTES |
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ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 4: Environment and development in the UN -- Global environmental conferences -- Global environmental conventions: ozone and climate -- Compliance and implementation: the role of the three UNs -- The coherence challenge -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 5: Gender equality and the United Nations -- UN history: the early years -- World conferences on women: advances and backlash -- Contributions by the UN system -- Today: UN Women -- Change but not transformation -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING |
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Chapter 6: Human rights and sustainable development: together at last? -- Rights and development: stronger together -- Human rights -- Development -- The era of goals -- Conclusion: looking ahead -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 7: Sustaining peace and the 2030 development agenda -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 8: Sustaining peace: changing architecture and priorities for UN peacebuilding -- Peacebuilding architecture -- Implementation: an assessment -- Half full or half empty? -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING |
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Chapter 9: What does ""leave no one behind"" mean for humanitarians? -- Inspiration and idea -- Impacts and influence -- Technical and political -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Chapter 10: Migration and development in the UN global compacts -- The migration-development nexus -- The UN's history of migration and development -- New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants -- Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration -- Global Compact on Refugees -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL READING -- Part II: Resources, partnerships, and management |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 11: Funding the UN: support or constraint? |
| Subject |
United Nations -- Economic assistance
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United Nations -- Management
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Sustainable Development Goals
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Economic development -- International cooperation
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Sustainable development -- International cooperation
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International organization
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weiss, Thomas G
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| ISBN |
9780429588693 |
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0429588690 |
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