Global Governance articles from October 2000

Global Governance archives from October 2000

From Global to Local Governance: Civil Society and the Multilateral Development Banks.
October 1, 2000... The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as multilateral development banks (MDBs), seem to have become the champions of a governance quest in the developing world. Although international networks of nongovernmental...

Whose Civil Society? Whose Governance? Decisionmaking and Practice in the New Agenda at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.
October 1, 2000... Governance and civil society are relatively new themes in the discourse of the multilateral development banks (MDBs). As objectives of MDB policy and lending, good governance or modernization of the state and civil society involves a common...

Civil Society Participation in World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Programs: The Case of Argentina.
October 1, 2000... During the last few decades, the multilateral development banks (MDBs), together with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have influenced the most important macroeconomic changes in Latin America. In Argentina, structural adjustment,...

Civil Society Participation in World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Programs: The Case of Brazil.
October 1, 2000... In 1994, the government of Brazil implemented the so-called Plano Real to control the country's rampant inflation. The plan enabled the government to follow structural adjustment a la Brasilera, that is, without an agreement with the...

Civil Society Participation in World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Programs: The Case of Mexico.
October 1, 2000... For the last decade and a half, Mexican policymakers have focused on structural adjustment and liberalization of the economy. State intervention--quite significant for decades--has lessened. After the debt crisis, Mexico signed the General...

Multilateral Development Banks, Governments, and Civil Society: Chiaroscuros in a Triangular Relationship.
October 1, 2000... Landmark events such as the end of the Cold War, the renaissance of market policies, and the worldwide expansion of liberal political systems have contributed to civil society being gradually accepted as a legitimate international actor....