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A comparison of global governance across sectors : global health, trade, and multilateral development finance
Helble, Matthias; Ali, Zulfiqar; Lego, Jera - 2018
To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank remain central today … actors to participate, making it more representative of the current world order and making it possible to mobilize more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796983
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Reform of the international financial architecture : an Asian perspective
Kawai, Masahiro - 2009
the international community to seriously focus on the reform of the international financial architecture for crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901587
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Regional financial arrangements and the International Monetary Fund
Eichengreen, Barry - 2012
The rise of regional monetary arrangements poses a challenge for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s global surveillance efforts. This paper reviews how the IMF has responded to earlier regional initiatives, from the European Payments Union of the 1950s and the Gold Pool of the 1960s to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667240
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Whither multilateral development finance?
Wihtol, Robert - 2014
distinct stages. The Bretton Woods conference established the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 1944 to finance … Investment Bank initiative have added to the pressure for reform, and to the risk of fragmentation. An alternative financial … governance criteria. However, there is also an opportunity for genuine reform to ensure a new and innovative multilateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381537
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Assessing the effectiveness of IMF programs following the global financial crisis : how did it change since the Asian crisis?
De Resende, Carlos; Takagi, Shinji - 2018
The paper identifies key features of International Monetary Fund (IMF)-supported programs following the 2008 global financial crisis. The statistical analysis of a large sample of countries that borrowed from the IMF during 1997-2013 indicates that, compared to the amount of financing provided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843919
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Effective development aid : eelectivity, proliferation and fragmentation, and the growth impact of development assistance
Kihara, Takashi - 2012
This paper examines several indicators of effective development aid, focusing on the contributions of major bilateral donors. The empirical analyses of selectivity for effective aid delivery revealed that, taking a long-term and regional perspective, some major donors including Japan have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487446
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Climate change and poverty reduction : where does official development assistance money go?
Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Singh, Kanhaiya; Shandre Mugan … - 2011
There is an urgent need to mainstream the key challenges of climate change into sector and development planning and decision making processes to create sustainable long-term development. Mainstreaming is seen as making more efficient and effective use of financial and human resources. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379732
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Tracking international aid projects for ocean conservation and climate action
Shiiba, Nagisa; Maekawa, Miko; Vegh, Tibor; Virdin, John - 2022
Ocean conservation and sustainable use cannot be pursued or achieved without consideration of the planetary impacts of climate change, and particularly the role of the oceans in both mitigation and adaptation. For this reason, the international community has increasingly committed to providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938831
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The political economy of reducing the United States dollar's role as a global reserve currency
Yap, Josef T. - 2011
the world economy. This matter is settled by arguing that the global imbalances acted as a "handmaiden" to the 2008 … financial crisis. One way to reduce global imbalances is to reform the international monetary system and reduce the role of the … governance, economic arguments to reform the international monetary system are likely to be trumped by political reality. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267732
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Macroeconomic impacts of foreign exchange reserve accumulation : theory and international evidence
Fukuda, Shin'ichi; Kon, Yoshifumi - 2010
investment and economic growth. We provide empirical support for our theoretical analysis using panel data from the Penn World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003982936