UN Research Institute for Social Development

D. John Shaw

Chapter 13 in Sir Hans Singer, 2002, pp 107-110 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract During much of 1964, Singer served as the first associate director of the new UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), which was established in Geneva in July of that year. One of the effects of the ‘proposals for action’ for the UN development decade, with its emphasis on the importance of the human factor in development, was to stimulate the Dutch government to donate $1 million to the United Nations to set up the institute. Singer played an active part in setting out the institute’s initial philosophy, plans and work programme (Singer, 1965a; 1965d; 1966c).

Keywords: Social Development; Human Welfare; Physical Capital; Rapid Economic Growth; Productive Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403932860_13

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