The United Nations Report on the Economic Development of Under-Developed Countries

1953 ◽  
Vol 63 (249) ◽  
pp. 210 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. T. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United Nations

International Agencies and Economic Development: An Overview

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 432-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Asher
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Political Realm

Unctad I, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development held in Geneva in the spring of 1964, marked a major milestone in international concern with and approaches to the problems of less developed countries. The principal achievements of this mammoth, contentious, allegedly economic gathering, however, were in the political realm. Economic issues of great importance were raised but not resolved. Instead they were consigned for study and consideration to the elaborate continuing machinery born at Geneva, as well as to various previously established agencies, and eventually to the agenda for UNCTAD II, convened in New Delhi in early 1968.

The Furtherance of Economic Development

1965 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 562-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Blough
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Development ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Development Decade ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The United Nations

In 1961 the General Assembly declared the 1960's to be the UN Development Decade and called for intensified efforts to accelerate progress toward self-sustaining growth. During 1965, designated International Cooperation Year, the United Nations is to take stock of the progress made thus far. Next to peace and security, which are preconditions for progress in all fields, international cooperation to promote economic and social development of the less developed countries now holds the highest priority for United Nations action.

Predicting Voting Patterns in the General Assembly

1971 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack E. Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Correlation Technique ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Attribute Data ◽  
The United Nations

This project attempts to relate a large number of potential predictors to voting data generated at the United Nations. Numerous associations were found when the predictors, 77 in all, were related to 13 different kinds of voting scores. Because of considerable redundancy in both sets of data, national attribute and voting, the results were factor analyzed and the original variables were reduced to 14 sets of factor scores representing the national attribute data, and 4 representing the voting data. Several significant associations emerged from the intercorrelation of these two sets of factor scores, with the independent variables “Economic Development,” “Democracy,” and “U.S. Relations” exhibiting considerable predictive power. When the overall relationships between the two sets of data were assessed by use of the canonical correlation technique, “Economic Development” received the greatest weight on the national attribute side, and “Eastern Voting” on the voting (dependent variable) side. These findings accord well with previous research, in that “Economic Development” seems to predict negativism as revealed by voting. Thus “Economic Development” appears to be fundamentally related to certain schisms at the United Nations, with the representatives from the most developed states appearing the most “negative” as evidenced by questionnaire responses and voting behavior. Such orientations are likely to have a significant impact on the evolution of the organization.At a theoretical level, the present findings may have considerable relevance for both Social Field theory and Attribute theory.

EKREM TATOGLUAND KEITH W. GLAISER, Dimensions of Western Foreign Direct Investment in Turkey (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2000). Pp. 226. $67.50 cloth.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 663-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asim Erdilek
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Multinational Corporation ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Foreign Investor ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Nations

The surge in foreign direct investment (FDI)—investment with managerial control by the foreign investor, usually a multinational corporation—has been the major driver of globalization in the past two decades and the accelerator of economic development in many developing countries. It has, however, bypassed Turkey. By all relevant relative measures found in the United Nations' annual World Investment Report, Turkey has failed to attract much FDI.

scholarly journals E-Government in European Countries, a Comparative Approach Using the Principal Components Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Armenia Androniceanu ◽  
Irina Georgescu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The digitalization of public administration is a necessary condition for the economic and social development of each country. In this context, e-government is developing and diversifying its forms of implementation, contributing significantly to the efficiency of public administration, to increasing the degree of transparency and to reducing corruption in public institutions. The aim of the research was to know how the states of the European Union evolved from the point of view of e-government and what influence it had on the economic development of the analyzed states and on the European citizens during the analyzed period. For this we selected ten research variables from several databases: Eurostat, the World Bank and the United Nations E-Government Development Database (UNeGovDD) of the United Nations. The period for which we did the analysis is 2010 – 2019. Using EViews 12 we applied panel Principal Component Analysis to reduce the 10-variable panel into a lower dimension of 3 principal components to find the underlying simplified structure. The three principal components retained explain about 76.5 % of the initial information. The research results show significant differences between the states analyzed, in terms of e-government, but also in terms of the impact it has on government effectiveness, controlling corruption, e-participation of European citizens and the economic development of Member States. In countries with a high level of e-government implementation, governance is efficient, corruption is low, citizen involvement is higher and economic development is faster.

Implementation of a Health Information Systems Programme

2005 ◽  
pp. 420-426
Author(s):  
Zubeeda Banu Quraishy
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Large Growth ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Government

In general, developed countries in the world is where Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is in an advanced state, governments in developing countries particularly in the Asia- Pacific region are only in the initial phases of adopting ICT. ICT has demonstrated benefits for governments in developing countries to improve management, information and reporting, streamline the delivery of government services, enhance communication with the citizenry, and serve as a catalyst for empowering citizens to interact with the government. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 2001) considers that ICT is a useful tool for developing countries to progress and leapfrog to the applications applied in the developed world. The Indian draft report on ICT and Human Development records that in the 21st century there is large growth and diversification of the ICT sector in India particularly in areas of agriculture and in service sectors (UNDP, 2004). The United Nations even has an ICT advisory group with representatives from governments of developing countries and the industry (Singh, 2001).

General Assembly

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-378
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Recovery Program

Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development: Pursuant to a resolution approved at the ninth session of the General Assembly, Mr. Raymond Scheyven submitted for consideration at the tenth session of the Assembly a further report on the proposed Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development (SUNFED). The report, prepared by Mr. Scheyven in cooperation with a panel of experts appointed by the Secretary-General, dealt with the form or forms, functions and responsibilities which SUNFED might have, and especially with the methods by which its operations might be integrated with the development plans of the countries receiving assistance from it. Mr. Scheyven felt that SUNFED should not confine itself to financing or assisting in the financing of nonself-liquidating projects exclusively; he felt that SUNFED should be able to contribute to any project which was related to economic development but which for some reason, such as balance of payments difficulties, was unable to attract investment capital. He likened the proposed fund to the European Recovery Program, although he pointed out that the analogy was not complete. On the question of the financing of the fund and the size of its initial resources, Mr. Scheyven emphasized the necessity of long-term commitments and felt that the $250 million initial capitalization which had been put forward as the minimum amount on which SUNFED could begin operation should not be considered an absolute; he felt that the limited capacity of underdeveloped countries to absorb capital and the inevitable slowness with which the operation of SUNFED would begin would make it practicable to begin with a smaller amount. He therefore suggested that the General Assembly bear these considerations in mind in reaching decisions and suggested that the fund might be established provisionally for a five year period during which its operations could be assessed. Mr. Scheyven and the experts with whom he consulted felt that SUNFED should be empowered to provide under-developed countries with grants or with loans repayable in local currency but should not be empowered to grant low-interest loans on indeterminate and extremely liberal terms; a combination of grants from SUNFED and loans from such an agency as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development was suggested as a possible procedure.

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