Abstract
The regular budget, also known as the program budget, has been the consistent bedrock of the UN’s finances. It is the foundation of the organization’s activities not by virtue of its size, however, for it forms only a small proportion of the annual expenditure of the UN system. This has become smaller in those terms and also in relation to the sums spent on peace-keeping operations, the more visible and controversial sector. Between 1992 and 1995, peace-keeping budgets were larger than those for the regular budget.
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J. David Singer, Financing International Organization: The United Nations Budget Process, ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1961 ), p. 2.
John G. Stoessinger, Financing the United Nations System, ( Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1964 ), pp. 37–8.
Mandi Elmandjra, The United Nations System: An Analysis, ( London: Faber and Faber, 1973 ), p. 215.
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McDermott, A. (2000). The Regular Budget — an Uncertain Capacity to Pay. In: The New Politics of Financing the UN. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27765-0_5
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