United Nations Development Programme, Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All

Shady UN Development Agency Pushes Hard For Global Tax

- Joseph A. Klein
Monday, November 7, 2011

The United Nations launched the 2011 Human Development Report, entitled Sustainability and Equity: A Better Future for All, with great fanfare on November 2, 2011. Helen Clark, Administrator of the largest and perhaps the most unaccountable, ethically-challenged of all UN bureaucratic agencies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), presided over the ceremonies held in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was joined by Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark.

The annual UNDP report follows the customary left-wing approach to most problems: Bash industry. Redistribute wealth through more taxes. And throw in a dig at Western free market capitalism for good measure.

In its latest version, the report downplays the importance of economic growth, as reflected in rising national incomes, to the achievement of better living standards. It links much of the world’s ills to “environmental hazardsâ€