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Article: Development cooperation in peril: building new capacities, preventing crises. (United Nations Development Programme Administrator James Gustave Speth speech)(Transcript)
- Article from:
- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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I would like to make the case for international cooperation for development in the poorer countries and for the countries in transition. I do not mean more of the same "foreign aid" of the past. Rather, my points will be that we need a new and more comprehensive framework for development cooperation and that within this new framework we need more official development assistance (ODA), not less, whatever the current mood might he. And the mood is certainly not positive now.
I would like to take on this subject by confronting two myths, both widely held. The first is that the developing world is doing pretty well, and that things are basically on track. The second ...