This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015. If the MDGs to halve global poverty and significantly improve the conditions of life of the world's poor are to be met on schedule, putting in place the requisite funding is an essential component. The economists in this volume from WIDER, UNDP, and other leading institutions have contributed their analyses as part of the Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy - a high-level multi-stakeholder initiative to develop new approaches to global problem-solving, a global economic agenda and human security.
Key resource flows examined include ODA, foreign direct investment, remittances by migrants, commodity export prices, and new ideas to secure sustainable debt relief, including SDRs, debt cancellation, revaluation of IMF gold reserves, debt arbitration, and other proposals. The statistically rich analyses are presented in the context of the complicated trends in global inequality, the incidence of poverty, and the impacts of globalisation. The editors conclude with a thought-provoking set of ideas about the political requirements for effective global economic governance aimed at achieving the MDGs that the world community set itself at the start of the new millennium.
The empirical data in this volume and survey of key new ideas for resource mobilisation will be invaluable to all those concerned with global economic governance, including scholars, diplomats, NGO lobbyists, and students studying development economics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction - Fantu Cheru and Colin Bradford Jr
1. Global Inequality, Poverty and Justice: Empirical and Policy Issues - Raimo Vayrynen (Finnish Academy of Science)
2. Development Finance through ODA: Trends, Financing Gaps, and Challenges - Tony Addison, George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray (WIDER)
3. Making Sense of MDG Costing - Jan Vandermoortele and Rathin Roy (UNDP)
4. Foreign Direct Investment, Innovative Sources of Development Finance and Domestic Resource Mobilisation - Tony Addison and George Mavrotas (WIDER)
5. Remittances by Emigrants: Issues and Evidence - Andres Soimano (WIDER & ECLA)
6. The Commodities Crisis and the Global Trade in Agriculture: Present Problems and Some Proposals - Martin Khor (Third World Network)
7. Globalization, Debt and the 'Hoover Effect': International Structural Changes that Have Led to the Poor Financing the Rich - Ann Pettifor (Jubilee Research/new economics foundation)
8. Beyond HIPC: Secure, Sustainable Debt Relief for Poor Countries - Nancy Birdsall and Brian Dees (Centre for Global Development)
9. Debt Workout Mechanisms; Debt Arbitration - Kunibert Raffer (University of Vienna)
10. Achieving Healthy Urban Futures in the Twenty-first Century: New Approaches to Financing Water and Basic Sanitation - David Tipping, Daniel Adom and Anne Tibaijuka (UN-Habitat)
11. A Political Agenda for Global Economic Governance - Colin Bradford Jr and Fantu Cheru
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