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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on International Development, Finance, Trade, and Monetary Policy
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eva Erman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-08-04
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 023028325X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining case studies with normative theory, this book analyzes the democratic credentials of transnational actors participating in global governance, ranging from corporations and philanthropic foundations to NGOs and social movements. This leads to innovative interpretations of democratic legitimacy in a transnational context.
Author: Jiajun Xu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1107172845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides essential background on China's bid for increasing influence over the US hegemonic architecture of international financial institutions.
Author: Dana Clark
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780742533110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemanding Accountability is a collection of nine original case studies that offer insights into how local, national, and international civil society factors mobilize to hold the World Bank accountable for its financed projects. It is a rich source of lessons for understanding today's emerging transnational civil society efforts to challenge powerful global institutions.
Author: H. Jeong
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-09-27
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0230503357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.
Author: Rodger A. Payne
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2004-03-11
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780791459270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that international institutions are becoming increasingly democratized.
Author: C. Pallas
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1137277610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransnational civil society is often seen as an important contributor to the democratization of global governance. In their engagement with the World Bank, however, transnational civil society organizations prioritize pre-existing mission over responsiveness to claimed stakeholders and undercut the authority of developing country governments.
Author: Sarah Babb
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0226033678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) carry out their mission to alleviate poverty and promote economic growth based on the advice of professional economists. But as Sarah Babb argues in Behind the Development Banks, these organizations have also been indelibly shaped by Washington politics—particularly by the legislative branch and its power of the purse. Tracing American influence on MDBs over three decades, this volume assesses increased congressional activism and the perpetual “selling” of banks to Congress by the executive branch. Babb contends that congressional reluctance to fund the MDBs has enhanced the influence of the United States on them by making credible America’s threat to abandon the banks if its policy preferences are not followed. At a time when the United States’ role in world affairs is being closely scrutinized, Behind the Development Banks will be necessary reading for anyone interested in how American politics helps determine the fate of developing countries.
Author: Ranjit Lall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1009216295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational institutions are essential for tackling many of the most urgent challenges facing the world, from pandemics to humanitarian crises, yet we know little about when they succeed, when they fail, and why. This book proposes a new theory of institutional performance and tests it using a diverse array of sources, including the most comprehensive dataset on the topic. Challenging popular characterizations of international institutions as 'runaway bureaucracies,' Ranjit Lall argues that the most serious threat to performance comes from the pursuit of narrow political interests by states – paradoxically, the same actors who create and give purpose to institutions. The discreet operational processes through which international bureaucrats cultivate and sustain autonomy vis-à-vis governments, he contends, are critical to making institutions 'work.' The findings enhance our understanding of international cooperation, public goods, and organizational behavior while offering practical lessons to policymakers, NGOs, businesses, and citizens interested in improving institutional effectiveness.
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Published: 1994-10
Total Pages: 756
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