Special high-level meeting of the Council with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
High Level ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

Defining Accountability Up: the Global Economic Multilaterals

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miles Kahler
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Monetary Fund ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
National Governments ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

AbstractCritics of the global economic multilaterals (GEMs) – the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization – allege that these organizations fail the test of democratic accountability. Two distinct measures of democratic accountability have been applied to the GEMs. To the degree that these organizations display ‘accountability deficits’, those deficiencies are the result of choices by the most influential national governments. Three techniques have been deployed to enhance the accountability of the GEMs: transparency (more information for those outside the institution), competition (imitation of democratic accountability) and changes in rules of representation (accountability to stakeholders rather than shareholders). Each of these may impose costs, however, and may conflict with other valued aims of the organizations.

International institutions, globalization and the inequality among nations

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amitava Krishna Dutt ◽  
Kajal Mukhopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
World Trade ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
World Government ◽  
Gunnar Myrdal ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

In the 1950s, Gunnar Myrdal pointed out that while inequality between regions within many economically advanced countries was falling due to the policies of national government, inequality between countries was growing, given the absence of anything resembling a world government. Since then, international institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have grown in size and scope. This paper uses econometric techniques to argue that these institutions, by liberalizing and increasing international trade and capital flows, have not had the effect of reducing inequality across nations and may, in fact, have exacerbated it.

Conference on the Role of Industrialisation in Developing Countries

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-442
Author(s):  
Ronald Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Business Executives ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations

At the fourth Cambridge conference on development problems, the role of industry was discussed by ministers, senior officials, economic advisers, and business executives, from 22 African, Asian, and Caribbean countries, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Have some, if not all, of Africa's new nations now reached the stage when it would pay them to put their biggest bets on quick industrialisation? Or must they go on putting most of their money and brains into bringing about an agricultural revolution first, before striving for industrial take-off? These questions started the conference off on one of its big themes.

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