Developing the Global South
A United Nations Prescription for the Third Millennium
• Paulos Milkias
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Developing the Global South
A United Nations Prescription for the Third Millennium
• Paulos Milkias
For four decades the UN has attempted to foster development in the countries of the global south. The book provides a synopsis of these efforts, from the Brandt Commission Report to Boutros Boutros Ghali's Agenda for Development.

Prof. Milkias presents opposing arguments in allotting responsibility for the growing gap between the North and the South and details the Millennium Development Goals and assesses their successes and failures so far. He provides suggestions for closing the gap, for removing the debt burden that is currently crushing the nations of the South, and for relieving the poverty, ignorance and disease that plague so much of humanity.

In this unique book Dr. Milkias places the focus on the United Nations’ contribution to the development of the nations of the Global South and summarizes what the UN has accomplished in advancing development during the last half century. The data...
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Although there are several books on the gap between the north and the south, not many explain chronologically and in detail UN attempts to help the south develop. In terms of actions to close the gap, the only book that comes near to covering the main features of development goals as this monograph does is a book published by the UN Millennium Project itself under the title: Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goal (2005.) That official publication brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project and outlines practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them. It also presents an operational framework that will allow nations of the south to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and suggests that even the poorest of the poor among nations would be able to do so. This rosy picture is, however, far from reality and fails to pinpoint the problems that would hinder many nations’ development goals to be achieved by the target year of 2015. Developing the South for the Third Millennium, clearly upbeat about the future, not only explains the problems in detail and how to overcome them but also documents over 40 years of dramatic achievements as well as considerable amounts of unfulfilled hopes the traces of which can be clearly observed more than half way into the UN set deadline.
Content:
• International Organizations
• The Brandt Report
• The North-South Gap: Who is to Blame?
• UN Agenda for Development
• The Ghali Report
• The World Trade Organization and the South
• Globalization and the South
• The Millennium Development Goals
• Quo Vadis Africa
• Eliminating the North-South Gap

Reviews
Amb. Zewde Gabre-Selassie, former Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia
"Dr. Paulos Milkias’ book is breathtaking and panoramic in scope, covering the United Nations' decades-old efforts to help the Third World develop. It is indeed one of the most cogent exposes of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the widely scattered island states of the world. In presenting the views of the North and the South, the author is balanced, poignant and masterful. The monograph, which is a riveting and deeply-informed account of the developmental tribulations of the global south, is also a concise encyclopedia of the United Nations which I wish I had at hand when I was involved in international diplomacy. This book should be required reading for global civil servants and students of development and International Organizations."
Zewde Gabre-Selassie, D.Phil (Oxon), former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Nations and Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia
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Berhanu Dinka, former UN Deputy and Special Envoy
"A brilliant work born out of serious reflection and rigorous analysis of a scholar, … [this book] is also an articulate expose … of the unimaginable poverty and its consequences which affect the daily lives of the great majority of the people in the developing countries.…The suggestions and recommendations Professor Paulos makes regarding the developmental needs of the South and the role he prescribes for the United Nations Organization have been informed by the dual perspectives of North and South. Policy makers, development experts, trade negotiators, professional diplomats and the public at large owe it to themselves to read and re-read this important book."