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Article: The Chronicle interview. (Nurul Islam, UN Committee for Development Planning chairman)
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- UN Chronicle
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- June 22, 1997
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First off, what is the Committee for Development Planning [CDP], which was only recently reconvened after some uncertainty as to its future?
The CDP is the only non-governmental expert body in the United Nations system, as distinguished from other UN expert' groups, which are intergovernmental. It has been like that since its inception and, as such, has in my view a unique role to play. That role is to act as a think-tank and, therefore, as a bridge to thinking in the rest of the world on development policy issues - originating from various academic thinkers and national and regional think-tanks - and to bring these to bear on the deliberations of the United Nations ...