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United Nations Industrial Development Organization

The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this book offers the first concise and accessible guide to this important organization.

As the only UN organization to have been transformed from a UN secretariat entity to an independently governed UN agency, UNIDO is also an agency that has had to make drastic changes of focus and business practice in order to adjust to a changing environment. This book charts the complex origins and developments of the organization, and moves on to examine the current mandate of the agency, including trade capacity building, poverty reduction and the Green Industry Initiative. It also examines the significant partnerships it has formed with other UN-based systems such as the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the ITC to achieve these goals.

In the era of rapid globalization, UNIDO faces growing challenges. In the second part of this work Browne seeks to review these challenges, and UNIDOs recent reforms under its current management, and looks to suggest how the organization can help to meet some of the key global development challenges in the increasingly competitive environment of development cooperation and private-sector initiative.

This work will be a useful resource for all those with an interest in international organizations, international relations, development and trade, and international political economy.

Stephen Browne is Director of The Future of the UN Development System (FUNDS) Project and Fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Routledge Global Institutions Series
Edited by Thomas G. Weiss
The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
and Rorden Wilkinson
University of Manchester, UK

About the series

The Global Institutions Series has two streams. Those with blue covers offer comprehensive, accessible, and informative guides to the history, structure, and activities of key international organizations, and introductions to topics of key importance in contemporary global governance. Recognized experts use a similar structure to address the general purpose and rationale for organizations, historical developments, membership, structure, decision-making procedures, key functions, and an annotated bibliography and guide to electronic sources. The red-cover stream consists of research monographs and edited collections that advance knowledge about one aspect of global governance; they reflect a wide variety of intellectual orientations, theoretical persuasions, and methodological approaches. Together the two streams provide a coherent and complementary portrait of the problems, prospects, and possibilities of confronting global institutions today.

Related titles in the series include:

The United Nations Development Programme and System (2011)
by Stephen Browne

The International Trade Centre (2011)
by Stephen Browne and Sam Laird

The International Labour Organization (2011)
by Steve Hughes and Nigel Haworth

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2009)
by Richard Woodward

The International Organization for Standardization (2009)
by Craig N. Murphy and JoAnne Yates

The World Bank (2008)
by Katherine Marshall

The World Trade Organization (2007)
by Bernard M. Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis

UN Conference on Trade and Development (2007)
by Ian Taylor and Karen Smith

The International Monetary Fund (2007)
by James Raymond Vreeland

The World Intellectual Property Organization (2006)
by Chris May

United Nations Industrial
Development Organization

Industrial solutions for a sustainable future

Stephen Browne

First published 2012
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Stephen Browne

The right of Stephen Browne to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Browne, Stephen.

United Nations Industrial Development Organization : industrial solutions for a sustainable future / Stephen Browne.

p. cm. - (Global institutions)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. United Nations Industrial Development Organization-Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.

HC60.B7366 2012
338.91-dc23

2011051738

ISBN: 978-0-415-68639-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-11271-7 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Taylor & Francis Books

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Foreword

The current volume is the 66th title in a dynamic series on global institutions. These books provide readers with definitive guides to the most visible aspects of what many of us know as global governance. Remarkable as it may seem, there exist relatively few books that offer in-depth treatments of prominent global bodies, processes, and associated issues, much less an entire series of concise and complementary volumes. Those that do exist are either out of date, inaccessible to the non-specialist reader, or seek to develop a specialized understanding of particular aspects of an institution or process rather than offer an overall account of its functioning and situate it within the increasingly dense global institutional network. Similarly, existing books have often been written in highly technical language or have been crafted in-house and are notoriously self-serving and narrow.

The advent of electronic media has undoubtedly helped research and teaching by making data and primary documents of international organizations more widely available, but it has complicated matters as well. The growing reliance on the Internet and other electronic methods of finding information about key international organizations and processes has served, ironically, to limit the educational and analytical materials to which most readers have ready accessnamely, books. Public relations documents, raw data, and loosely refereed websites do not make for intelligent analysis. Official publications compete with a vast amount of electronically available information, much of which is suspect because of its ideological or self-promoting slant. Paradoxically, a growing range of purportedly independent websites offering analyses of the activities of particular organizations has emerged, but one inadvertent consequence has been to frustrate access to basic, authoritative, readable, critical, and well-researched texts. The market for such has actually been reduced by the ready availability of varying quality electronic materials.

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