000 01571cam a2200397 a 4500
999 _c169602
_d169602
020 _a9780415780483 (hbk.)
020 _a0415780489 (hbk.)
020 _a9780415780490 (pbk.)
020 _a0415780497 (pbk.)
040 _cCUS
082 0 0 _a339.46
_bCLA/G
245 0 0 _aGlobal governance, poverty and inequality/
_cedited by Jennifer Clapp and Rorden Wilkinson.
260 _aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2010
300 _axxxii, 324 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
440 _aGlobal institutions series.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aBook 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
650 0 _aPoverty
_xGovernment policy.
650 0 _aEquality
_xEconomic aspects.
650 0 _aInternational agencies.
650 0 _aEconomic assistance.
700 1 _aClapp, Jennifer, ed.
700 1 _aWilkinson, Rorden, ed.
942 _cWB16