International Economic Cooperation and the World Bank.

1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 702
Author(s):  
A. G. Ford ◽  
R. W. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
International Economic Cooperation

Book IV Multilateral Diplomacy, Human Rights, and International Organizations, 20 The G8/G7, G20, BRICS, WTO, OECD, IMF, and the World Bank

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberts Ivor
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
International Economic Cooperation ◽  
Multilateral Diplomacy

This chapter examines a number of global financial institutions. The first is the Group of Eight (G8)—currently known as the Group of 7 (G7)—an informal international forum comprising seven of the world’s leading industrialized nations (US, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Canada) and Russia. Next, is the G20, which aims to expand the G8. BRICs represents the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), meanwhile, is tasked with becoming an authoritative centre of research and initiative in economic thought and development. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has four main areas of focus: energy security, economic development, environmental awareness, and engagement worldwide. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an institutional body which deals with trade liberalization. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, both established in 1944, aim for international economic cooperation, with the latter focusing on development.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF GLOBALIZATION IN BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Alexey Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
The World

The purpose of this paper is to bring to reflection the main influences of globalization in Brazilian higher education has occurred in the last two decades. A critical analysis of the relevant literature was made, addressing the main international organizations such as the World Bank (WB) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), as well as its main guidelines for the education. Among the aspects analyzed, it is possible to verify a convergence of the guidelines of these organizations about the importance of Higher Education for economic development and the need to link the use of public resources to quality.

Highlighting inequalities in the histories of human rights: Contestations over justice, needs and rights in the 1970s

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 871-895
Author(s):  
JULIA DEHM
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Global South ◽  
International Order ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

AbstractThis article considers the ways in which concerns about economic equalities, both among and within countries, were taken up in human rights debates of the 1970s and how concerns about economic inequalities impacted on discussions about the possibilities, objectives and conceptions of rights. It shows how scholars and advocates from the global South, concerned about the production of underdevelopment and unequal accumulation, advocated a more ‘structural approach’ to human rights during this period that argued that a just international order was necessary for the realization of rights. The article first considers Third World demands for a New International Economic Order to address inequalities among countries, as well as the potentially conflicting focus on inequalities within countries by the World Bank and its subsequent promotion of a ‘basic needs’ approach to development. Thereafter, it considers how these different approaches to economic inequality were taken up in and influenced human rights debates and frameworks of this period.

Some Aspects of the World Bank Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes

1966 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel S. Rodley
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
Executive Directors ◽  
International Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World

The executive directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), having formulated a Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States, approved on March 18, 1965 the submission of the text of the Convention to member governments of the Bank. This action represents a milestone in the efforts of several international organizations to achieve some sort of harmony in an area of international economic development where there has been manifest disunity. The arbitration of private investment disputes has strong legal and political undertones, for it is set against a background of friction between capital-exporting countries that always seek to protect the interests of their nationals abroad, and capital-importing countries that normally recognize a need for foreign private capital to bolster their economic development, yet are wary of allowing external mechanisms to encroach on their sovereign jurisdiction within their own territory.

Queer in the Time of Homocapitalism

Out of Time ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136-173
Author(s):  
Rahul Rao
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

In the wake of Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Act, the World Bank cancelled a loan to the country, precipitating the production of international economic governmentality to promote respect for LGBTI rights, or what this chapter calls ‘homocapitalism’. The chapter reads this development as part of the instrumentalization of gender and sexuality for the rehabilitation of capitalism following the most recent global financial crisis. It argues that the Bank’s efforts to disincentivize homophobia by ascribing it a cost reinforce the hegemony of neoliberal reason. The chapter criticizes the Bank’s culturalist understanding of homophobia, arguing that this allows it to position itself as external to the problem, rather than as implicated in its production. It offers a political economy account of homophobia in Uganda that highlights the relationship between neoliberalism and Pentecostal Christianity, a key vehicle for conservative discourses around sexuality. It concludes with reflections on how homocapitalism might be resisted.

Self-sufficient development: confronting dependence and adapting to globalization*

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-371
Author(s):  
Gouwth Ould al-Talib Jiddo ◽  
Saad Bouh Ould Sidaty
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
United Nations ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Theoretical Level ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

This article deals with the problematic of self-sufficient development at the theoretical level and in the context of globalization, especially in regard to how the various predominant Western conceptions of such have been understood, analyzed, questioned and/or adapted in the Arab world. The author explores the question of viable development and accumulation in countries emerging from systems of pre-capitalist relations, and attempts to assess whether or not Western expectations and policies – such as those of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations – are germane to or feasible in such nations and whether or not they facilitate self-reliance or actually impede or militate against it. Taken into consideration are the major theories of exogenous and endogenous growth as well as the impact of international economic and monetary unions in the context of globalization.

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