Journal of International Affairs articles from March 2005

Journal of International Affairs archives from March 2005

Editors' foreword.(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... Ending global poverty, decreasing human misery and promoting economic growth have long been lofty goals of humanity. Yet, it was not until the United Nations distilled these aspirations into the Millennitun Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 that...

An interview with Jeffrey D. Sachs.(Director of the Earth Institute)(Interview)
March 22, 2005... JEFFREY D. SACHS is the Director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor...

The ecology of global economic power: changing investment practices to promote environmental sustainability.
March 22, 2005... This paper explores how we can use the power of power" to address environmental challenges and to institute changes. Rather than confining power to its destructive role, the effort here is to reconceive of such power as also representing...

Paying for prosperity: how and why to invest in agricultural research and development in Africa.
March 22, 2005... Pursuing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) brings us back to one of humanity's oldest problems: how to prosper in tropical Africa. The earliest humans probably came from there and chose to migrate across Eurasia where populations grew...

Building inclusive financial sectors: the road to growth and poverty reduction.
March 22, 2005... "The stark reality is that most poor people in the world still lack access to sustainable financial services, whether it is savings, credit or insurance. The great challenge before us is to address the constraints that exclude people from full...

Meeting the MDGS in urban areas: the forgotten role of local organizations.
March 22, 2005... Local government organizations have great importance for low-income urban dwellers. They influence whether low-income households can send their children to school (or whether they can afford to keep them there) and whether they can get health...

Aid, debt relief and new sources of finance for meeting the millennium development goals.
March 22, 2005... The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) now provide a clear set of objectives for mobilizing the international development community, notably in the area of development finance. The recent Millennium Project report recommends that high-income...

The composition of foreign aid: consequences for economic growth and welfare.
March 22, 2005... The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mandated by the United Nations set out an ambitious set of objectives to be achieved by the year 2015. The first seven goals are directed toward a range of social objectives that include eradicating...

Investing in development: the millennium development goals, aid and sustainable capital accumulation.
March 22, 2005... "The only complaint I have against the system is that a considerable sum of money must be paid to the first fire engine that arrives, a smaller to the second, and so on, thus... if all their efforts prove ineffectual, the sufferer, who is...

The poverty of economic policy: is debt sustainability really sustainable?
March 22, 2005... For those concerned about poverty in general and highly indebted countries in particular, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the apparent new commitment to "making poverty history," are creating a sense of hope and optimism. (1)...

An interview with Fernando Henrique Cardoso.(Interview)
March 22, 2005... FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO was President of the Federative Republic of Brazil for two successive mandates from January 1995 to January 2003, winning both elections by an absolute majority. Among his current functions, Cardoso is Chairman of the...

Growth, inequality and poverty: some hard questions.(COMMENTARIES)
March 22, 2005... This commentary poses a series of progressively harder questions in the economic analysis of growth, inequality and poverty. Starting with relatively straightforward analysis of the relationship between growth and inequality, the first level of...

Scoring the millennium goals: economic growth versus the Washington consensus.(COMMENTARIES)
March 22, 2005... According to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, "[based] on current trends, most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be met by most countries." (1) This assessment, issued in 2004, is widely shared and reinforced by a...

Bridging the gender gap to promote economic and social development.
March 22, 2005... The third item of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), concerning gender equity; has set the target of achieving gender parity in enrollments in primary and secondary education for 2005. In contrast, all other development goals have targets...

Education and the MDGS: realizing the millennium compact.(COMMENTARIES)(Millennium Development Goals)
March 22, 2005... In September 2000, heads of all 191 member states of the United Nations committed themselves to meet a set of quantifiable targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by...

Assessing the impact of HIV/AIDS on economic growth and rural agriculture in Africa.(ANDREW WELLINGTON CORDIER ESSAY)
March 22, 2005... HIV/AIDS is one of the most significant issues facing the world, and Sub-Saharan Africa particularly, in the 21st century. There have been differing opinions over how the epidemic is impacting the economic future of the African continent. Mixed...

Financing the millenium development goals: the millenium project report.
March 22, 2005... Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals New York: UN Millennium Project, UNDR 2005, 329 pages. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent development outcome targets to be achieved by...

Development financing from the outside, in.(Sustainability of External Development Financing To Developing Countries )(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Sustainability of External Development Financing To Developing Countries By Matthew Odedokun Helsinki: UNU-World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2004, 45 pages. In this policy-focused work, Matthew Odedokun presents a very...

The true cost of AIDS.(The Macroeconomics of HIV/AIDS)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Macroeconomics of HIV/AIDS Markus Haacker, ed. Washington DC: International Monetary Fund, 2004, 344 pages. Like the first quarter of a mystery novel, the International Monetary Fund's The Macroeconomics of HIV/AIDS brings together...

Why everyone hates globalization.(The Globalization Gap)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Globalization Gap By Robert A. Isaak New Jersey: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2005, 304 pages. Over the course of the last twenty years, "globalization" has become social science's favorite catch-all phrase. With the end of...

Globalization and justice for all: the duty of the United States?(Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization )(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization William K. Tabb New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 512 pages. International institutions governing trade and monetary affairs need reform. This has become a burgeoning topic of...

Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... ASIA'S NEXT GIANT: SOUTH KOREA AND LATE INDUSTRIALIZATION Alice Amsden (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 400 pages In this work, Alice Amsden dispels the prevalent misconception that policies of economic liberalization precipitated...

Ending Poverty.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... ENDING POVERTY Robin Marris (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999), 120 pages Writing on the cusp of the new millennium, British economist Robin Marris sets an ambitious agenda for poverty reduction in the 21st century in his brief but...

New Sources of Development Finance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... NEW SOURCES OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE A.B. Atkinson, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 251 pages The urgent need for increased development aid promises to be high on the international agenda for 2005. In Europe, the newly...

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR GROWTH: ECONOMISTS' ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN THE TROPICS William Easterly (Cambridge: MIT Press, July 2001), 356 pages An entertaining economist's tale on the failure of global poverty reduction, Easterly's...

Globalization and its Discontents.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS Joseph Stiglitz (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 304 pages An insider's account of global economic policy-making, Stiglitz provides a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of the world's leading development...

Development as Freedom.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM Amartya Sen (New York" Random House, 1999), 384 pages Nobel-Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has been instrumental in defining a comprehensive view of human security based on empowerment. In his book Development...

Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... DEVELOPING POWER: HOW WOMEN TRANSFORMED INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Irene Tinker and Arvonne Fraser, eds. (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2004), 320 pages Downplaying the relevance of women's work, international development policies...

The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... THE OTHER PATH: THE ECONOMIC ANSWER TO TERRORISM Hernando De Soto (New York: Basic Books, 1989, re-released in 2002 with new preface), 304 pages A courageous book, The Other Path, by Hernando De Soto, examines the informal economic system...

Energy and the millennium development goals: the impact of rural energy services on development.
March 22, 2005... The number of people impoverished by a lack of modern energy services is staggering. Today, almost 1.6 billion people in developing countries live without electricity in their homes, while nearly 2 billion people depend on inefficient and...