The millennium development goals : raising the resources to tackle world poverty /

This volume provides an up-to-date and detailed tour d'horizon of the exciting diversity of new proposals and mechanisms currently being discussed in order to raise the necessary financial resources to make the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals a reality by 2015. If the MDGs to ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Fantu Cheru, 1949-, Bradford, Colin I.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, England : Zed Books, 2005.
Subjects:	Economic assistance > Developing countries. Economic development > Finance. Poverty > Developing countries. Development studies Economics Development economics & emerging economies Developing countries > Economic policy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Global inequality, poverty and justice / Raimo Varynen
Development financing through ODA / Tony Addison, George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray
Making sense of MDG costing / Jan Vandemoortele and Rathin Roy
Foreign direct investment, innovative sources of development finance and domestic resource mobilisation / Tony Addison and George Mavrotas
Remittances by emigrants / Andres Solimano
Commodities crisis and the global trade in agriculture / Martin Khor
Globalisation, debt and the "Hoover Effect" / Ann Pettifor
Beyond HIPC / Nancy Birdsall and Brian Deese
Debt work-out mechanisms / Kunibert Raffer
Achieving healthy urban futures in the twenty-first century / David Tipping, Daniel Adom and Anna Tibaijuka
Political agenda for global economic governance / Colin Bradford Jr. and Fantu Cheru.