in association with the Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Global inequality, poverty and justice / Raimo Varynen -- Development financing through ODA / Tony Addison, George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray -- Making sense of MDG costing / Jan Vandemoortele and Rathin Roy -- Foreign direct investment, innovative sources of development finance and domestic resource mobilisation / Tony Addison and George Mavrotas -- Remittances by emigrants / Andres Solimano -- Commodities crisis and the global trade in agriculture / Martin Khor -- Globalisation, debt and the "Hoover Effect" / Ann Pettifor -- Beyond HIPC / Nancy Birdsall and Brian Deese -- Debt work-out mechanisms / Kunibert Raffer -- Achieving healthy urban futures in the twenty-first century / David Tipping, Daniel Adom and Anna Tibaijuka -- Political agenda for global economic governance / Colin Bradford Jr. and Fantu Cheru.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 th.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
Ingram Content Group
Stock Number
3-017-9781848130722
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Millennium development goals.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Economic assistance-- Developing countries.
Economic development-- Finance.
Poverty-- Developing countries.
Armut
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Development-- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Structural Adjustment.
Direktinvestition
Economic assistance.
Economic development-- Finance.
Economic policy.
Finanzpolitik
Globalisierung
Nachhaltigkeit
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Economic Policy.