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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454873003321

Titolo

Networks of influence? [[electronic resource] ] : developing countries in a networked global order / / edited by Leonardo Martinez-Diaz and Ngaire Woods

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-26866-X

9786612268663

0-19-156983-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Martinez-DiazLeonardo <1976->

WoodsNgaire

Disciplina

332/.042091724

Soggetti

International finance

Finance - Developing countries

Capitalists and financiers - Social networks - Developing countries

Electronic books.

Developing countries Foreign economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Abbreviation List; Introduction: Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order; 1. The G20: A Practitioner's Perspective; 2. The G20 After Eight Years: How Effective a Vehicle for Developing-country Influence?; 3. Finance Ministers and Central Bankers in East Asian Financial Cooperation; 4. Voice for the Weak: ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Groups on African Countries Emerging from Conflict; 5. The Commission for Africa: A View Through the Prism of Networks; 6. Africa's G4 Network

7. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries' Finance Ministers' Network8. Networking of Senior Budget Officials; 9. The Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies and its Central Bankers' Networks; Conclusion: Networks of Influence?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Networks are thriving in global politics. Some bring policy-makers from different countries together to share problems and to forge possible solutions, free from rules of representation, decision-making, and



transparency which constrain more formal international organizations. This book asks whether developing countries can benefit from such networks? Or are they safer to conduct their international relations in formal institutions? The answer varies. The key lies in how the networkis structured and what it sets out to achieve. This book presents a fascinating account of how some networks have