The Institute for the Study of Economic and Social Development (IEDES) is an autonomous part of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, focusing on multidisciplinary research into societies in the South.
[6] The OEEC, a precursor to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), was primarily established to coordinate efforts under the European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan)[7] for the reconstruction of a war-devastated continent.
The total economic assistance provided by the ERP from April 3, 1947, until the program's conclusion in December 1951, amounted to roughly twelve billion dollars.
Finally, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite,[19] heralding the beginning of the Space Age within the context of the Cold War.
[20] Against the backdrop of the Cold War and the onset of the Space Age, amidst the post-Second World War European reconstruction context and under the political framework of the Fourth Republic, the Institute for the Study of Economic and Social Development was formally established by a decree issued by the French government on October 15, 1957.