Handbook on the politics of International Development

MELISA DECIANCIO; PABLO NEMIÑA; DIANA TUSSIE

Elgar Publishers

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2022 p. 500

9781839101908

Development politics are high on the international agenda. More than 150 world leaders are expected to attend the UN Sustainable Development Summit from September 25-27 2019 at the United Nations headquarters in New York to formally adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda. This momentous agenda will serve as the launch pad for action by the international community to promote shared prosperity and well-being for all over the next 15 years. Yet one only has to recall the titles of many major international organisations to understand that the politics surrounding these aims have a long history: from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the Regional Development Banks and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has also sought to bring to fruition a so-called Doha ?Development? Round. The United States has within its governmental structure a body called the Agency for International Development; the United Kingdom has a specialist Department for International Development; whilst for its part the European Commission has long had a Directorate-General for Development. It is also the case that civil society more than matches government in its embrace of the idea. What are the politics and agendas of these diverse bodies?