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)

The world's progress: aims, tools, realities

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.

By Stephen Browne

/ 22 Sep 2010

The G20 summit: a transition moment

The accumulating cacophony of protests that accompany the preparations for the Group of Twenty (G20) meeting in London on 2 April 2009 reflects the widespread popular anger at the evident

By Stephen Browne

/ 1 Apr 2009

The progress of trade: why Doha matters

Some forty trade ministers are back in Geneva for a meeting on 21-26 July 2008 in the effort to secure agreement in the Doha round after nearly seven years of

By Stephen Browne

/ 25 Jul 2008

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

A rising concern with personal and environmental health in the world's richer countries is influencing lifestyles and public debate alike. One significant trend is the increase in the

By Stephen Browne and Alexander Kasterine

/ 25 Jan 2008

G8 aid: beyond the target trap

Another summer, another Group of Eight (G8) summit, and another opportunity for the world's richest countries to wring their hands over the plight of the poorest - it

By Stephen Browne

/ 6 Jun 2007

Whatever happened to development?

It is exactly twenty years since Gro Harlem Brundtland's World Commission on Environment and Development produced Our Common Future. The report exhorted humanity to pursue "the needs

By Stephen Browne

/ 17 Apr 2007

Stephen Browne

The world's progress: aims, tools, realities

The G20 summit: a transition moment

The progress of trade: why Doha matters

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

G8 aid: beyond the target trap

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Whatever happened to development?