Making the World Bank More Accountable: Activism in the North

India and Japan are two economic partners in Asia. Both are important countries on the eastern and western flanks of Asia; while India is the second largest in the world in terms of population, Japan is one of the most economically advanced in the world. During the last quarter century or so, they have made sincere efforts at various levels to consolidate their complementary relationships. They have also endeavoured to diversify and intensify their economic interests by means of trade, industrial collaboration and investment. This bilateral partnership has developed rather slowly and there is obviously great scope for its further diversification and intensification. What is needed in this regard is an atmosphere of warmth, sincerity and reciprocity. Whilst Japan's imports from India declined from 8.55 per cent of its total imports in 1951 to 0.8 per cent in 1977, its exports to India also declined from 7.39 per cent of the total exports to 0.59 per cent during the same period.1 Similarly, Japanese investments in foreign collaboration in India amounted to only $ 32 million on 31 March 1979 or about 0.1 per cent of their total investment abroad of about $ 27 billion on that date. Japan's share in cases of foreign investment approved ( capital/technology) by India during the 1957–1979 period totalled 502 collaborations out of a total of 5706 or only 8.8 per cent. Nevertheless, Japan is more important for India than vice versa. It is one of India's important trading partners. In 1978–79, India's exports to Japan totalled $ 743 million or 10 per cent of the total exports. Similarly, imports from Japan amounted to $ 705 million or about 6.7 per cent of total imports.2 Indo-Japanese economic co-operation could develop further from its present level in areas of trade, investment, technology transfer, collaboration in third countries, and multilateral issues figuring on the agenda of the North-South dialogue, the United Nations and its agencies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The scope of this paper is confined to an examination of the problems and prospects of Indo-Japanese economic cooperation in the fields of trade, investment and collaboration in third countries.

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Conceptualizing Peace

Measuring Peace ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198810360.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 13-29

Author(s):

Richard Caplan

Keyword(s):

United Nations ◽

World Bank ◽

North Atlantic Treaty Organization ◽

African Union ◽

Governmental Organizations ◽

The North ◽

The World Bank ◽

Non Governmental Organizations ◽

The World ◽

The North Atlantic

Different conceptions of peace have different implications for devising strategies of peacebuilding and peace maintenance. What it takes to achieve a negative peace is very different from what is required to achieve a positive peace. This chapter explores how the conceptual distinctions discussed in the Introduction map onto actual practice, with reference to the principal relevant peacebuilding actors: the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the African Union, the World Bank, and leading non-governmental organizations. What are the primary features of these organizations’ approaches to peacebuilding? How do they differ, if at all, in their understandings of the characteristics of, and requirements for, a stable peace?

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“Mirror, Mirror On the Wall:” Self-Legitimation by International Organizations

International Studies Quarterly ◽

10.1093/isq/sqz089 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 64 (1) ◽

pp. 207-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sarah von Billerbeck

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

International Organizations ◽

North Atlantic ◽

Constitutive Activity ◽

The North ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World ◽

Novel Theory ◽

Temporal Dimensions ◽

Mirror Mirror

Abstract Most analyses of legitimacy and legitimation in international organizations (IOs) focus on the perceptions of external audiences. In so doing, they fail to consider self-legitimation, where an IO undertakes legitimation internally, as a way of developing and reinforcing its identity. Moreover, most studies of IO legitimacy neglect the fact that IO identities are rarely uniform and instead are multiple and conflicting. I address these omissions by examining self-legitimation in three IOs—the United Nations (UN), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the World Bank. These organizations are both operational and normative actors, and both institutions dependent on member states and autonomous bodies with independent expertise and capacities. These identities sometimes dictate contradictory goals and practices, forcing the organizations to violate the principles and activities considered appropriate to one of their identities, thus complicating legitimation. Based on extensive fieldwork and drawing on a range of disciplines, this article proposes a novel theory of IO self-legitimation: I argue that the need for self-legitimation depends on the degree of identity cohesion and identity hierarchy of the organization. I identify two temporal dimensions of self-legitimation, three categories of self-legitimation practices, and three broader repercussions of self-legitimation, ultimately showing that self-legitimation is a necessary and constitutive activity for IOs.

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Broadening the social investment agenda: The OECD, the World Bank and inclusive growth

Global Social Policy ◽

10.1177/1468018119826404 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1-2) ◽

pp. 121-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Rianne Mahon

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Inclusive Growth ◽

Social Investment ◽

The South ◽

The North ◽

The World Bank ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

Work Family ◽

Intergenerational Cycle

Towards the close of the 20th century, the idea of social investment gained purchase as a way to legitimise social policy as a productive contribution. For those in the North, social investment provided a new rationale to counter neoliberal attacks on the welfare state, while in the South, the idea caught on in the form of conditional cash transfers. The World Bank and Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) played key roles in the development and diffusion of the social investment agenda beginning in the mid-1990s. While hewing to a common core, their interpretations of social investment differed in important respects. The OECD sought to grapple with the emergence of more flexible, post-industrial labour markets, marked by growing precarity, dualisation and feminisation and focused on work–family balance as a solution while the Bank, focused on the South, emphasised social investment in very poor children to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. In response to new pro-equality movements and intellectual research documenting the growth in inequality, however, a decade later, both organisations moved to incorporate a broader orientation, focused on the concept of ‘inclusive growth’. This article explores these developments.

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DAMPAK HUTAN KEMASYARAKATAN TERHADAP PENGENTASAN KEMISKINAN RUMAHTANGGA SEKITAR HUTAN DI KECAMATAN BATUKLIANG UTARA KABUPATEN LOMBOK TENGAH

JURNAL AGRIMANSION ◽

10.29303/agrimansion.v20i1.259 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 19-30

Author(s):

Addinul Yakin ◽

Sukardi Malik ◽

Muhammad Yusuf ◽

Syarif Husni

Keyword(s):

World Bank ◽

Household Income ◽

Capita Income ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Per Capita Income ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The North ◽

The World Bank ◽

The World ◽

Per Capita

ABSTRAK Kawasan pegunungan Rinjani, khususnya resort Setiling Batukliang Utara Kabupaten Lombok Tengah memiliki fungsi biologi, ekologis, dan estetika serta sosial-ekonomi bagi masyarakat sekitar hutan. Deforestrasi sering dikaitkan dengan tingkat kemiskinan masyarakat sekitar hutan, sehingga dengan diberikannya Hutan Kemasyarakatan (HKm) di wilayah tersebut dapat meningkatkan pendapatan masyarakat dan menekan kemiskinan. Penelitian ini telah dilaksanakan dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif-eksploratif-partisipatif dengan mengkombinasikan studi dokumen, wawancara terstruktur, indepth interview, serta diskusi kelompok terarah (FGD) terbatas. Penelitian dilakukan desa Aik Berik dan Desa Setiling dengan jumlah responden sebanyak 40 orang, dengan juga melibatkan tokoh masyarakat di wilayah tersebut. Data yang telah dikumpulkan dianalisa secara deskriptif analisis pendapatan rumahtangga dan pendapatan per kapita yang kemudian digunakan untuk menganalisis tingkat kesejahteraan masyarakat berdasarkan tiga standar yang berbeda, yaitu Sajogyo, BPS, dan Bank Dunia. Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa: 1) rata-rata total pendapatan rumahtangga masyarakat sekitar hutan mencapai Rp. 20.057.950 yang terdiri dari Rp. 13.597.950 (67,79%) dari sektor pertanian dan Rp. 6.460.000 (32,21%) dari sektor non pertanian dengan pendapatan per kapita sebesar Rp. 4.667.549,- per tahun; 2) berdasarkan kriteria BPS, masyarakat sekitar hutan di kecamatan Batukliang Utara masuk kategori tidak miskin, selanjutnya berdasarkan kriteria Sayogyo menghasilkan kategori hampir miskin, dan Kriteria bank Dunia manghasilkan kategori miskin, sehingga ketiganya memberikan tingkat kesejahteraan yang relatif berbeda; 3) Adanya Hkm telah mampu meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat sekitar hutan karena mampu meningkatkan pendapatan per kapita masyarakat sebesar 22,18 persen dan telah mampu mengentaskan kemiskinan 7,5 sampai 22,5 persen. Oleh karena itu disarankan agar perbaikan ekonomi masyarakat sekitar hutan harus dipercepat melalui pola pembinaan dan pengembangan pada bidang-bidang usaha yang menjadi kekuatan utama mereka yaitu kehutanan, peternakan, dan perkebunan serta juga mendorong peningkatan kegiatan perdagangan dan ekonomi produktif skala rumahtangga. ABSTRACT The Rinjani mountain region, especially the North Batukliang Setiling resort of Central Lombok district holds functions biological, ecological, and aesthetical and socio-economic functions for the community near the forest. Deforestation is often associated with the level of poverty of the community near the forest, so that introduction of the Community Forest (HKm) in the region may increase people's income and reduce poverty. This research has been carried out using a descriptive-exploratory-participatory method by combining document studies, structured interviews, in-depth interviews, and limited focus group discussions. The research was conducted at the villages of Aik Berik and Setiling with 40 respondents, as well as community leaders in the area. The collected data was analyzed descriptively by analysis of household income and per capita income which was then used to analyze the level of community welfare based on three different standards, namely Sajogyo, BPS, and the World Bank. The results of the study show that: 1) the average total household income of the community near the forest reaches Rp. 20,057,950 consisting of Rp. 13,597,950 (67.79%) from the agricultural sector and Rp. 6,460,000 (32.21%) from the non-agricultural sector with a per capita income of Rp. 4,667,549, - per year; 2) based on BPS criteria, the community around the forest in the North Batukliang sub-district is categorized as not poor, then based on the Sayogyo criteria produces an almost poor category, and the World Bank Criteria produce a poor category, so the three provide relatively different levels of welfare; 3) The presence of Hkm has been able to improve the welfare of the community near the forest because it is able to increase the per capita income of the community by 22.18 percent and has been able to alleviate poverty 7.5 to 22.5 percent. Therefore, it is suggested that the economic improvement of the community near the forest should be accelerated through policy interventions in business sectors which are on their main strengths, namely forestry, livestock, and plantations, as well as in non agricutural sector such as trade and other economic activities (such as home agroindustry).

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