The United Nations System: Coordinating Its Economic and Social Work

by Martin Hill

Book Overview

This book is about a problem that had moved to the centre of international concern when it was first published in 1978 - how the UN System was to cope with the overwhelming volume of world wide economic and social tasks that had been placed upon it. The UN System comprises, in addition to the UN Organization itself, the Specialized Agencies like FAO, WHO and the World Bank, the regional commissions, the innumerable semi-independent programmes like...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521072980
• ISBN13: 9780521072984
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"