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Rethinking development : putting an end to poverty
Repenser le développement. English
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- Creator
- Henri Bartoli
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Paris : Economica : UNESCO, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- viii, 183 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1902282078, 9781902282077, 9231037021, 9789231037023
- OCLC
- ocm45099884
- "Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme."
- Originally published in French under the title: Repenser le développement (UNESCO, 1999).
- "Editions UNESCO."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Translated from the French.
- Human rights, the basis of sustainable development -- Human rights, the cornerstone of sustainable human development -- Acknowledging the human cost of labour -- Integration of ecological costs -- Failure of strategies based primarily on economic and financial considerations. A multidimensional strategy interlinking economic, social and environmental factors -- Limitations of strategies based on self-reliance and import substitution -- The social failure of structural adjustment strategies -- A proposed strategy based on education, law, employment and sharing -- Governance on three levels: global, national and regional -- Conditions of global governance -- A vital actor: the State -- The pivotal issues of government: the case of Europe -- Removing the obstacles to governability: absence of democracy; indebtedness; financial slippage; power of the major "masters of the world" groups; interference -- Making civil society a partner in development -- "Pilotage" planning and collective education. New indicators -- Cancellation of debts; meeting capital needs -- Regulation and control of capital movements -- Facing up to the masters of the world economy: the multinational enterprises -- Intervention -- Controversial but necessary -- Economic thought renewed and open to changes in knowledge -- Plurality of causes; adoption of principles of indetermination and relativity -- The organizational principle and the systemic principle -- The principle of responsibility -- A polyphonic knowledge -- Conclusion: Keeping our word
Subjects
- Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Economic development -- Social aspects.
- Sustainable development.
- Poverty -- Developing countries.
- Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
- Public welfare -- Developing countries.
- Economic assistance -- Developing countries.
- Distributive justice -- Developing countries.