Unity and diversity of development : the regional commissions' experience / Yves Berthelot -- The ECE : a bridge between east and west / Yves Berthelot and Paul Rayment -- From ECAFE to ESCAP : pioneering a regional perspective / Leelananda de Silva -- ECLAC : a commitment to a Latin American way toward development / Gert Rosenthal -- The ECA : forging a future for Africa / Adebayo Adedeji -- ESCWA : striving for regional integration / Blandine Destremau
Summary
This volume surveys the history of the UN's regional commissions and the ideas they have developed over the last 40 years. Each essay is devoted to one of the five regional commissions--Europe, Asia and theFarEast, Latin America, Africa, and Western Asia--and how they have approached their mission of assessing the condition of regional economies and making prognoses about future conditions. The essays describe how each commission has added local perspectives to global debates over economic development and brought an authentic regional voice to the UN. Contributors are Adebayo Adedeji, Yve
