Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality

by Rorden Wilkinson

• ISBN13: 9780203852132
• ISBN10: 0203852133
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-06-10
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

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 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 deficiencies in the current structures of global governance to protect the world's poorest and most disadvantaged.ãThis book offers answers to questions raised about the role of global governance in the attenuation and amelioration of world poverty and inequality. The contributors interrogate the role of systems of governance at a time of global economic crisis and continuing environmental degradation against a backdrop of acceleration in inequalities within and between communities and across the globe.ãEvaluating how existing systems can be reformed or redesigned to be more effective at addressing issues of poverty and inequality and providing a comprehensive discussion of a wide range of global governance initiatives this work will be essential reading for students and scholars of global governance, international relations and international organizations.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Poverty, Inequality and the United Nations System

Introduction

Governing Global Poverty and Inequality

Development and the Governance of Poverty and Inequality

Global Governance Meets Development: A Brief History of an Innovation in World Politics

What Type of Global Governance Would Best Lower World Poverty and Inequality?

Bretton Woods and the Amelioration of Poverty and Inequality

IMF Rhetoric on Reducing Poverty and Inequality

The Effect of IMF Programs on Public Wages and Salaries

Reforming the World Bank

Promising Poverty Reduction, Governing Indebtedness

Governing Global Poverty? Global Ambivalence and the Millennium Development Goals

The Paris Club, Debt and Poverty Reduction: Evolving Patterns of Governance

Complex Multilateralism, Public/Private Partnerships and Global Business

Commonwealth(s) and Poverty/Inequality: Contributions to Global Governance/Development

The Global Elite, Public-Private Partnerships and Multilateral Governance

Business, Development and Inequality

Horizontal Inequalities and Faith Institutions

Global Aspects and Implications of Horizontal Inequalities (HIs): Inequalities Experienced by Muslims Worldwide

Governance and Inequality: Reflections on Faith Dimensions

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