Abstract
In a 1988 report, Maurice Bertrand concluded that “improvement of the UN's efficiency in the economic and social fields is a more likely prossect than improvement in the field of peace and security” and suggested that current failures are due to the UN's institutional weaknesses. While Bertrand is correct on one level, the problem goes deeper than institutional failures. The UN Development Decades reflected an international political consensus on the need for international economic cooperation. That consensus is dissipating. UN effectiveness in economic and social fields requires an international political commitment to act together for the common good.
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