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Policing the Banks
From 1999 to 2004 Maartje van Putten served as a member of the World Bank's Inspection Panel. Using personal experience and extensive interviews with principal decision-makers and stakeholders in the Panel's work, she chronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank and other major financial entities. Describing how formerly secretive financial institutions have been slow to accept responsibility for the consequences of their investments - especially the problems that can result from projects in developing countries - she shows that financing institutions can cause significant social and environmental damage and argues that new accountability mechanisms are necessary to reduce or p...
The Handicap Principle
The handicap principle is that signals are only taken seriously if the signal itself imposes a handicap on the signaller that would make cheating impossible or unprofitable. The Zahavis explore the wide-ranging implications of this theory.
The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution
The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as "the world's environmental conscience." The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system--a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world's environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established norms and researched policy, leaving it to other organizations to carry out its recommendations. In this book, Maria Ivanova offers a detailed account of UNEP's origin and history. Ivanova counters the common criticism that UNEP was deficient by design, arguing that UNEP has in fact delivered on much (though not all) of its mandate.
The Inspection Panel
This Annual Report, which covers the period August 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000, has been prepared by the members of the Inspection Panel for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA) in accordance with the Resolution that established the Panel. The Report is circulated to the President and Executive Directors of both institutions. Subject ot Board approval, the three-member Panel is empowered to investigate problems that are alleged to have arisen as a result of the Bank not having complied with its own operating policies and procedures.
Canada-Japan
The papers in this volume were developed for an informal symposium held in Vancouver in April 1988. The papers range from descriptions of possible realigned world political orders to questions of international trade and domestic economic priorities; and from the "greying" of the population of the industrial world and associated social policy issues such as health care and pensions to the imperative of implementing sustainable economic development worldwide.
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Earth for Sale
'Illuminating ... Earth of Sale is a fantastic primer for those looking for some historical perspectives on the environmental movement.' The Ecologist
Sustainable Development
This book documents the influence of nongovernmental organizations on the rise of the sustainable development movement in international politics. It adds to the body of scholarly research on non-governmental organizations, by examining their political influence during the first two decades of international environmental politics - from the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 to the establishment of the World Conference on Environment and Development in 1982. NGOs wielded their rational moral authority to achieve their goals in attending environmental mega-conferences. In turn, these successes gave rise to a symbiotic relationship with the United Nations Environment Program and secured a seemingly permanent position at not only the negotiating table, but also the inner hallways and back rooms of the United Nations.
Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, 2001
Now in its fifth year, the "Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law" is becoming a much sought-after forum for essays by the most distinguished professors in international law. These essays cover a variety of topics related to the activities of the United Nations: from the role of the Security Council to UN treaties, from environmental issues to humanitarian law. The "Yearbook" also contains essays e.g. on the World Bank, the IAEA, and the WTO. Volume 5 focuses in particular on the international dispute settlement system with articles on the activities of international courts and tribunals as well as the contributions to settlement of disputes by other institutions such as the World Bank Inspection Panel. But there are also tackled subjects as the future of peace-keeping, the UN Transitional Administration in Kosovo and East Timor, as well as human rights and their implementation. This book is a must-have for any academic involved in international law. For more information on this yearbook please visit the website of the Max Planck Institute
