By 2000 Heritage’s budget dwarfed UNCTAD’s and continued growing while UNCTAD’s shrank.
Evidence
By 2000, Heritage’s budget of 38 million represented well more than half the amount of that year's budget for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (65.4 million). UNCTAD’s budget had peaked in 1995 at $79.4 million.
— Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1836
Categorization
XREF: Directly ties to the right-wing think tank network’s displaced challenge to G-77 institutions tracked across this book. — connects to: The UN’s own agency was dismantled and absorbed into pro-investment UNCTAD work — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1798
SEED: This budget inversion makes a striking quantitative anchor for an essay on how think tanks outspent UN economic institutions to win the development-ideas war.