Global governance, poverty and inequality/ edited by Jennifer Clapp and Rorden Wilkinson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword by the series editors; Foreword: The United Nations and the fight against poverty: does it make a difference?; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Governing global poverty and inequality; Part I: Development and the governance of poverty and inequality; 1 Global governance meets development: A brief history of an innovation in world politics; 2 What type of global governance would best lower world poverty and inequality?; Part II: Bretton Woods and the amelioration of poverty and inequality -- 3 IMF rhetoric on reducing poverty and inequality4 The effect of IMF programs on public wages and salaries; 5 Reforming the World Bank; Part III: Promising poverty reduction, governing indebtedness; 6 Governing global poverty?: Global ambivalence and the Millennium Development Goals; 7 The Paris Club, debt, and poverty reduction: Evolving patterns of governance; Part IV: Complex multilateralism, public-private partnerships and global business; 8 Commonwealth(s) and poverty/inequality: Contributions to global governance/development -- 9 The global elite, public-private partnerships, and multilateral governance10 Business, development, and inequality; Part V: Horizontal inequalities and faith institutions; 11 Global aspects and implications of horizontal inequalities: Inequalities experienced by Muslims worldwide; 12 Governance and inequality: Reflections on faith dimensions; Index