Nature and characteristics of the United Nations economic commissions: the specificity of ECLAC

Abstract

The article discusses the circumstances of creation of the five UN economic committees, seeking to apprehend both the historical context and the characteristics of each of them. The hypothesis is that the historical conditions of creation of ECLAC opened the possibility of specificities very relevant to the debate on economic development of the 1950s in Latin America, and Europe and North America. ECLAC has contributions entered as heterodox in the context of development theories, engendering a characteristic of School of Thought that is absent in the other committees.

Keywords

• comissões econômicas da onu. natureza das comissões econômicas da onu. políticas de desenvolvimento na américa latina. cepal.