Future UN Development System
- Opinion by Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • December 9, 2014
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GENEVA — For only the second time — the first was in 1996 — the electoral campaigns for the American president and the United Nations secretary-general are running in parallel. Both promise to be long and protracted. Each already…
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- Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • August 22, 2014
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One year ago, the report of a high-level panel of world leaders and renowned development specialists proposed 12 goals and 50 indicators for the United Nation’s post-2015 agenda. These were already unwieldy numbers, but after a year and a…
- Categories: Development
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- Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • April 8, 2013
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Are the numerous United Nations regional commissions worthwhile? The first such commission sprang up in Europe, amid the aftermath of World War II, when a Polish-inspired resolution, passed by the General Assembly in 1947 to organize the recovery of…
- Categories: Development
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