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Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality book cover

1st Edition

Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality

Edited By Rorden Wilkinson, Jennifer Clapp Copyright 2010
360 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge
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A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of the 21 st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound conditions of global economic inequality and poverty in the world’s poorest countries. In 2007, the unsound lending practices that caused a collapse in the US housing market ushered in a broader economic crisis that reverberated throughout the global financial... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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