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About Stephen Browne

Stephen Browne has worked for different organisations of the United Nations development system, most recently as deputy executive director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), Geneva - the technical-assistance trade organisation of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). He is now director of FutureUN.org - a project examining the United Nations development system (including its evolution, its gaps, its duplications) in order to seek improvements.

Stephen Browne’s books include Aid and Influence: Do Donors Help or Hinder? (Earthscan, 2006); (with Sam Laird); The International Trade Centre: Promoting an Export Culture (forthcoming, Routledge 2011); and The United Nations Development Programme and the UN Development System (forthcoming, Routledge, 2011)

Articles by Stephen Browne

Wednesday 22nd September

The world's progress: aims, tools, realities

Stephen Browne, 22 September 2010
A United Nations summit in New York on 20-22 September 2010 is measuring progress in the fulfilment of global commitments to improving human security by 2015 - the Millennium Development Goals. But the focus should be on the instruments of delivery as much as the objectives, says Stephen Browne.
Wednesday 1st April

The G20 summit: a transition moment

Stephen Browne, 1 April 2009
A global crisis rooted in the north's failures has its worst effects in the south. There must be change
Friday 25th July

The progress of trade: why Doha matters

Stephen Browne, 25 July 2008
A new world-trade deal is vital to achieve fairness in global markets
Friday 25th January

A green wall? Kenya, organics, and “food miles”

Alexander Kasterine and Stephen Browne, 25 January 2008
The restriction of long-distance organic trade: who benefits, who pays?
Wednesday 6th June

G8 aid: beyond the target trap

Stephen Browne, 6 June 2007
The global aid model is failing. Time for a new approach
Plus: Christopher Albin-Lackey & Ben Rawlence say act now for the Nigerian people
Tuesday 17th April

Whatever happened to 'development'?

Stephen Browne, 17 April 2007
The impact of the pioneering north-south reports of the 1980s – Brandt, Palme, Brundtland – were intimately tied to the political context in which they appeared. Stephen Browne maps this relationship and asks whether development thinking can become an instrument of global change.
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