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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.4/6
• Soggetto topico: Poverty - Government policy; Equality - Economic aspects; International agencies; Economic assistance
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ClappJennifer <1963-> WilkinsonRorden <1970->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 system. This economic shockwave had a global impact, triggering not just instability in other industrialized countries, but also in their developing world counterparts, also highlighting defic
• Titolo autorizzato: Global governance, poverty and inequality
• ISBN: 1-136-97436-9; 1-136-97437-7; 1-282-62967-0; 9786612629679; 0-203-85213-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458454203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Global institutions series.