Too Global To Fail : The World Bank at the Intersection of National and Global Public Policy in 2025

Too Global to Fail: The World Bank at the Intersection of National and Global Public Policy in 2025 analyzes the issue of global public goods, particularly those related to the environment, in the context of the global development process. Long-term sustainability of development is at stake, as the distinction between developing and developed countries in their approaches to environmental issues is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. This study contends that global sustainability depends on and even consists of the provision of certain global public goods and that the prevailing a

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Evans, J. Warren
Other Persons:	Davies, Robin (contributor)
Publisher:	Washington : World Bank Publications
Subject:	Entwicklungsorganisation \| Development organization \| Entwicklungshilfe \| Development aid \| Entwicklungsbank \| Development bank \| Umweltverträglichkeit \| Environmental sustainability \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (313 p)
Series:	Directions in Development. Environment and Sustainable Development Directions in Development
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Box 1.1 What Young Development Professionals Think About Collaborative Consumption; Boxes; Notes; References; PART 1 The Future of Global Public Goods; Chapter 2 Global Public Goods and International Development; Box 2.1 A Taxonomy of Public Goods; State, Regional, and Global Development; Box 2.2 Smallpox Eradication; Table B2.2.1 Benefits and Costs of Smallpox Eradication; Tables; Public Goods and Development; Global Public Goods and Sovereignty Global Public Goods for DevelopmentBox 2.3 The Case for Financing Knowledge for Development; Box 2.4 The Green Revolution; Table B2.4.1 Effect of International Agricultural Research; Box 2.5 The Cost of Carbon; Table B2.5.1 Various Estimates of the Cost of Carbon; Box 2.6 Influenza Pandemics; Table B2.6.1 A Comparison of Two Pandemics; Box 2.7 Managing Tuna in the Central and Western Pacific; The World Bank's Role in Promoting Global Public Goods; Box 2.8 What Young Development Professionals Think About Sustainability in Development; Notes; References Chapter 3 Environmental Sustainability as a Development Issue: The Evolution of an IdeaEvolution of the International Environmental Agenda; World Bank Sustainable Development Institutional Framework; Box 3.1 Bank Nurtures Leadership in Joining with Civil Society Organizations; The World Bank and Environmental Global Public Goods; Figures; Figure 3.1 Major International Conferences and Meetings on Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Biodiversity; Box 3.2 What Young Development Professionals Think About Multidisciplinary Partnerships; Notes; References Chapter 4 The Future Is Now: Scenarios to 2025 and BeyondPopulation and Economic Growth Projections; Figure 4.1 Urban Population, Percentage of World Population and Total, Projections to 2050; Natural Resource and Climate Scenarios; Biodiversity; Water Resources; Figure 4.2 Distribution and Use of the Earth's Water, 2010; Oceans; Climate Change; Figure 4.3 Stresses on Ocean Resources; Figure 4.4 Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, Observatory, 1960-2010; Some Indications of Progress; Figure 4.5 Major International Meetings on Climate Change, 1992-2012 Drilling Down: The Resource Scarcity DilemmaTechnology: The Planet's Salvation?; Box 4.1 What Young Development Professionals Think About Collective Global Governance; Notes; References; PART 2 Financing Global Public Goods; Chapter 5 Something's Gotta Give: Aid and the Financing of Global Public Goods; Global Public Goods for Development; Figure 5.1 Bilateral GPG Funding, by Major Purpose, 2001-2011; Figure 5.2 Multilateral GPG Funding by Major Purpose Period; Figure 5.3 Bilateral GPG Funding by Major Source; Figure 5.4 Multilateral GPG Funding by Major Source; A Trend Analysis Figure 5.5 Trends in Aid for Global Public Goods
ISBN:	978-1-4648-0307-9 ; 978-1-4648-0310-9 ; 978-1-4648-0307-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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