UNDP

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 17 10:28:14 PST 2000


John Gulick wrote:


>This is probably neither here nor there, but for quite some time
>the UNDP's line has been "ecologically sustainable"/"socially equitable"
>development, where enlightened servants in the multilateral agencies
>broker beautiful "win-win" alliances among regional development banks,
>transnational investors, local capitalists, and hand-picked delegates
>from so-called "civil society." You know the score -- the contradictions
>of this are wished away by fiat through the usage of "sustainable development"
>jargon, with such catch-phrases as "building institutional capacity
>to leverage
>globalization." Maybe Kofi Annan will be anointed as the high priest of
>"Third Way globalizatation."

Brown was also announcing a new UNDP strategy - under necessity of deep budget cuts, he says. Their small-scale development programs will be largely canceled. Instead, UNDP will focus on giving advice to poor countries on good governance - how to attract foreign capital (and retain domestic capital) and foreign development aid. He used the word "leverage" a lot.

Doug



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