tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087565.post9155274010813806245..comments2023-10-24T07:06:36.815-07:00Comments on Small Precautions: Humanity Call for Papers: The New International Economic Order and the Global Interregnum of the 1970s Nilshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04220861634503974376noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087565.post-71497033574676562972012-10-19T07:14:11.657-07:002012-10-19T07:14:11.657-07:00@LFC, you're absolutely right about that disti...@LFC, you're absolutely right about that distinction – we didn't mean to imply otherwise. McNamara took the object of development to be poor people, not states, a point that Third World states (naturally) rejected.Nilshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04220861634503974376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9087565.post-74788834593297647432012-09-18T19:03:22.485-07:002012-09-18T19:03:22.485-07:00On a quick reading, this interesting post treats t...On a quick reading, this interesting post treats the NIEO and the Basic Needs approach as more-or-less equivalent projects in their aims. They really weren't. As Robert W. Tucker pointed out at the time, the NIEO was mainly focused on inequality among <i>states</i>. McNamara's approach at the Bank, by contrast, focused on the poverty of <i>individuals</i>. That's why some people proposed the striking of a sort of bargain that would combine the two projects: the global North to meet the NIEO demands of the global South in return for commitments by countries in the South to get more serious about alleviating mass poverty. There were some gestures in this direction but then the neoliberal wave of the 80s arrived and the Third World debt crisis and that was that.<br /><br />Anyway, glad I saw this post. LFChttp://howlatpluto.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com