Solidarity and Development
The OECD Technical Cooperation Committee in the Cold War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4297010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mattia Granata (0000-0002-0639-4632, Professor of contemporary history, Universitas Mercatorum, Rome ([email protected])) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-78 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182702-11540270 |
| OpenAlex | W4402843080 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Since the first "development decade," the OECD has played a key role in coordinating aid from Western countries to the Global South. Before that first decade, however, wide gaps in development separated its own member countries. Within it, therefore, a Technical Cooperation Committee (TECO) operated to provide knowledge and expertise to "intermediate development" Mediterranean countries. TECO, through a network of experts, concentrated and disseminated data, ideas, and economic policy practices to promote the "modernization" of countries not fully integrated into the international economic system and ruled by dictatorial or otherwise undemocratic regimes. On the one hand, the program concretized intra-European solidarity to spread economic development and prosperity; on the other hand, it allowed a close look at the reality of those countries. Then, beginning in the 1970s, reflecting the change in the prevailing economic culture, TECO incubated the guiding lines for the global public administration reform. This study reconstructs the history of TECO through documentation preserved in the OECD archives in Paris
Cold war · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration
The Hegemony of Growth
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The Challenge of Global Capitalism
The Romance of Economic Development and New Histories of the Cold War
Planning in cold-war Italy
The OECD and phases in the international political economy, 1961–2011
Partners in Development? Robert McNamara, Lester Pearson, and the Commission on International Development, 1967–1973
The concept of ‘Southern Europe’ and political development
The OECD and technical education in post-war Mediterranean Europe
Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
The Greek Economy in the Twentieth Century
Economic Development
Exporting the “Gospel of Productivity”
Planning Peace
The politics of productivity
The Genesis of Planning in Turkey
Interrupting the Coloniality of Knowledge Production in Comparative Education
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan and the Birth of Development Economics
Modernization Theory and the Comparative Study of National Societies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |