Erosion of the United Nations' Economic Role From the beginning of the 1980s onwards, the attitude of some countries of the North towards the United Nations began to harden. In part, the growing disaffection can be related to the significant downturn in the global economic situation from the beginning of the decade -- which resulted largely from the monetarist deflationary policies introduced by the North. In a period of lower growth and efforts to reduce …showed first 75 words of 8453 total…

…showed last 75 words of 8453 total…arch for the very best person, with the optimum qualifications in one or more development disciplines. It has, however, resulted in a situation where each major donor expects to have its nationals located at important levels at the headquarters of the development funds and programmes as well as at the country level, often regardless of whether the person is qualified in the highly specialized and culturally and politically sensitive work of development.