Oral history interview with Mihály Simai, 2000
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- Name
- Simai, Mihály, 1935- (Interviewee)
- Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Mihály Simai, 2000
- Abstract
- Early years: 1952 graduate of Budapest University of Economics with international studies degree; member of populist student group, People's College; Career: Department of International Politics and Economics assistant professor; 1959-1960 employee of ECE; 1964-1968 Centre for Development Planning, Projection, and Policies; 1993-1995 Director of the UNU's World Institute for Development Economics R esearch; member of UN Committee on Public Administration, UNICEF Executive Board, Committee on Development Planning, and member of Advisory Board of the UN Staff College; professor at the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Budapest University of Economics; president of the Hungarian UN Association and the Hungarian National Committee of UNICEF; honorary president of the World Federation of UN Associations; author of and The Future of Global Governance and View from the 38th Floor, a sociography of UN; Themes: UN documents contraband reading in university; relationship with Prime Minister Imre Nagy; Yugoslavia report in 1956; Keynesian economics and western economic science; decolonization and economic independence; involvement in development economics and foreign trade; industrialization; UNITAR project on brain-drain; New International Economic Order (NIEO) and development decades; Soviet sphere of influence on the UN; innovation of NGO's; Soviet human rights performance; UN global conferences; relationship between academia and the UN; North-South divide in population, finance, technology, and environment; comparative analysis of Secretaries-Generals; Brentton Woods institutions and the UN system; involvement and leadership in UN University and UNU-WIDER (World-Institute for Development Economics Research); research fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP); Japan and UNU; collapse of Soviet economy; UN in transition and its post-Cold war vision and purpose
- Collection Name
- United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)
- Subjects
- Brain drain--Developing countries; Keynesian economics; Development economics; Non-governmental organizations; International finance; Human rights--Soviet Union; Hungary History Revolution, 1956; Soviet Union History 1985-1991; Simai, Mihály, 1935-; Nagy, Imre, 1896-1958; United Nations Officials and employees; United Nations History; World Institute for Development Economics Research; United Nations. Secretary-General; United Nations University; United States Institute of Peace
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2000
- Note (Biographical)
- Director of the UNU's World Institute for Development Economics Research
- Note
- Interviewed by Thomas G. Weiss on July 9, July 10, and July 11, 2000
- Note (Provenance)
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Gift, 2009
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13685244
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-y25t-fj44
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.