Abstract
Financial issues have been at the center of the North-South debate since the 1960s. During intergovernmental negotiations in recent decades, especially the world conferences from Rio 1992 to Rome 1996, the sharpest controversies between North and South were over ‘means of implementation’ — that is, money to finance the agreed programs of action. The conferences failed to accomplish their goals largely because governments of the North were unwilling to provide the essential financial means.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bonn International Center for Conversion, Conversion Survey 1997, Oxford, 1997.
Breier, H., Krise und Krisengerede. Vom Zustand der Entwicklungspolitik, in: Vereinte Nationen 2/1997.
Carter, M.N., Capital Markets and Global Development — Fundamentals for the New Finance, Paper presented to the United Nations Second Committee Briefings on Finance, May 19, 1998.
Griffin, K./McKinley, T., New Approaches to Development Cooperation, New York, UNDP (ODS Discussion Paper No. 7) 1996.
Haq, M. ul/Kaul, I./Grimberg, I. (eds.), The Tobin Tax: Coping with Financial Volatility, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hüfner, K., Die Vereinten Nationen und ihre Sonderorganisationen, Teil 3: Finanzierung des Systems der Vereinten Nationen, Teil 3À: Vereinte Nationen — Friedensoperationen — Spezialorgane, Bonn, DGVN (DGVN-Texte 45), 1997.
Killick, T., What Future for Aid?, in: UN Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, Finance for Sustainable Development: The Road Ahead, New York, United Nations (Background Paper No. 13), 1997.
Moor, A. de/Calamai, P., Subsidizing unsustainable development: undermining the earth with public funds, San José, Earth Council, 1997.
OECD, Development Co-operation Report 1997, 1997.
OECD, Open Markets Matter. The Benefits of Trade and Investment Liberalisation, Paris, 1998.
Peyman, H., Money Matters: Private Finance for Sustainable Development. Report on the Money Matters II Roundtable, Boston, Massachusetts, 21–22 March 1996, New York, UNDP (ODS Round Table Series No. 2), 1996.
Reed, D. (ed.), Structural Adjustment and the Environment, London, 1992.
Reed, D. (ed.), Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development, London, 1996.
Riddell, R., Aid in the 21st Century, New York, UNDP (ODS Discussion Paper No. 6), 1996.
Singh, K., A Citizen’s Guide to the Globalisation of Finance, Delhi, Madhyam Books, 1998.
South Centre, Foreign Direct Investment, Development and the New Global Economic Order. A Policy Brief for the South, Geneva, 1997.
Speth, J.G., Opening Remarks at the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board Annual Session, 18 June 1998, Item 12 Resource Mobilization. Geneva, UNDP, 1998.
UN General Assembly, Res. A/52/179, December 18, 1998(a).
UN Press Release ECOSOC/5750, 18 April 1998(b).
UNCTAD, World Investment Report 1997. Transnational Corporations, Market Structure and Competition Policy, Geneva, 1997.
UNDP, Human Development Report 1997, 1997.
Weizsäcker, E.-U. von/Jesinghaus, J., Ecological Tax Reform. A Policy Proposal for Sustainable Development, London, Zed Books, 1992.
World Bank, Global Development Finance, Analysis and Summary Tables, 1998.
World Bank, Global Development Finance, Volume 1, 1997(a).
World Bank, The World Bank and the Heavily Indebted Poor Country Debt Initiative. Progress in 1997, Washington, D.C. (leaflet), 1997(b).
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Martens, J., Paul, J.A. (2000). The Coffers Are Not Empty: Financing for Sustainable Development and the Role of the United Nations. In: Metzger, M., Reichenstein, B. (eds) Challenges for International Organizations in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62715-8_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62715-8_8
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-62717-2
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-62715-8
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance CollectionEconomics and Finance (R0)