The United Nations:Its future is its funding

In the past, even those international programs widely agreed to be essential have been plagued by chronic funding crises. As a matter of common sense, fund raising for international functions should bear most heavily on those activities that benefit most from a peaceful and predictable world environment. Travel, transport, communication and international transactions are the obvious candidates. Yet, no national government or major international leader has persuasively espoused a comprehensive plan for financing the international functions that are bound to grow in the years ahead. World peace and sustainable development will both nonetheless crucially depend on major international financial innovations.