Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality

ISBN-13: 9780415780490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 328 str.

Rorden Wilkinson;JENNIFER CLAPP

Opis

A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty. This book offers answers to questions raised about the role of global governance in the attenuation and amelioration of world poverty and inequality.

Spis treści

Foreword: Poverty, Inequality and the United Nations System Louise Fréchette.  Introduction.  Governing Global Poverty and Inequality Rorden Wilkinson and Jennifer Clapp  Part 1: Development and the Governance of Poverty and Inequality  1. Global Governance Meets Development: A Brief History of an Innovation in World Politics Eric Helleiner  2. What Type of Global Governance Would Best Lower World Poverty and Inequality? Albert Berry  Part 2: Bretton Woods and the Amelioration of Poverty and Inequality  3. IMF Rhetoric on Reducing Poverty and Inequality Bessma Momani  4. The Effect of IMF Programs on Public Wages and Salaries Irfan Nooruddin and James Raymond Vreeland  5. Reforming the World Bank Catherine Weaver  Part 3: Promising Poverty Reduction, Governing Indebtedness  6. Governing Global Poverty? Global Ambivalence and the Millennium Development Goals David Hulme  7. The Paris Club, Debt and Poverty Reduction: Evolving Patterns of Governance Thomas M. Callaghy  Part 4: Complex Multilateralism, Public/Private Partnerships and Global Business  8.Commonwealth(s) and Poverty/Inequality: Contributions to Global Governance/Development Timothy M. Shaw  9.The Global Elite, Public-Private Partnerships and Multilateral Governance Benedicte Bull  10.Business, Development and Inequality Ananya Mukherjee Reed  Part 5: Horizontal Inequalities and Faith Institutions  11. Global Aspects and Implications of Horizontal Inequalities (HIs): Inequalities Experienced by Muslims Worldwide Frances Stewart  12. Governance and Inequality: Reflections on Faith Dimensions Katherine Marshall

O autorze

Jennifer Clapp is a Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Chair in Global Environmental Governance and Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of Global Political Economy and Head-elect Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK. His work focuses on international trade, global governance, development and globalization.