Technology, globalization, and sustainable development [electronic resource] : transforming the industrial state / Nicholas A. Ashford, Ralph P. Hall
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- Ashford, Nicholas Askounes
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2011.
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- xxviii, 720 p. : ill
- Additional Creators
- Hall, Ralph P., 1975- and ebrary, Inc
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- Note continued: 12.3.1.2.The International Monetary Fund -- 12.3.2.Analysis of the Crisis in Official Development Assistance -- 12.3.2.1.The Volatility of Development Aid -- 12.3.2.2.Some Promising Signs -- 12.3.3.A Critical Assessment of Development Aid -- 12.3.3.1.The Problem with Government Involvement -- 12.3.3.2.The Problem with Aid Fungibility -- 12.3.3.3.The Problem with Conditionality -- 12.3.3.4.Problems with Effective Coordination -- 12.3.3.5.The Problems with Capacity Building -- 12.3.4.Bilateral Financial Transfers: Ranking Developed Countries on Their Foreign Policies -- 12.3.5.Export Credit Agencies -- 12.3.5.1.The Functioning of ECAs -- 12.3.5.2.Background on the Evolution of the OECD Common Approaches -- 12.3.6.Private Multinational Banks and the Equator Principles -- 12.3.7.Sovereign Wealth Funds -- 12.4.Private Capital Flows -- 12.4.1.The Rise in Private Capital Flows -- 12.4.2.Drawbacks of Financial Globalization -- 12.4.2.1.Foreign Direct Investment -- 12.4.2.2.Bank Lending -- 12.4.2.3.Portfolio Flows -- 12.4.2.4.Will the Inflows Last? -- 12.4.2.5.The Cost of Volatility -- 12.4.2.6.A Bias of Flows against the Poor -- 12.4.2.7.Potential Hazards for Sustainable Development -- 12.4.3.Maximizing the Benefits of Financial Integration -- 12.4.3.1.Strategies for the Developing World -- 12.4.3.2.What Can the Industrialized World Do? -- pt. B Financing for Environmental Protection -- 12.5.The Importance of Enviromental Financing -- 12.6.The Emergence of Financing Structures for the Environment -- 12.6.1.A Historical Overview of Environmental Aid: The Road to Rio -- 12.6.2.Criticism of Financing Structures for Environmental Aid: The Flaws of Rio -- 12.6.2.1.Conflicting Interests between North and South -- 12.6.2.2.The Dispute over Additionality -- 12.6.2.3.Neglecting the Tension between the Economy and the Environment -- 12.6.2.4.Agenda 21: Lacking a Mandate -- 12.7.Issues of Implementation in Financing Sustainable Development -- 12.7.1.Dilemmas and Solutions in Environmental Financing -- 12.7.2.Freeing Up Financial Resources for Sustainable Development Activities -- 12.7.2.1.Donor Funding -- 12.7.2.2.Governments and Other In-Country Sources of Finance -- 12.7.2.3.International Transfer Mechanisms -- 12.7.2.3.1.The Clean Development Mechanism -- 12.7.2.3.2.Debt Swaps -- 12.7.2.4.National Environmental Funds -- 12.7.2.5.Trust Funds -- 12.7.3.Making Better Use of Market Mechanisms to Promote Sustainable Development -- 12.7.3.1.Introducing New Financial Mechanisms That Internalize Environmental or Social Externalities -- 12.7.3.2.Adapting Existing Market Mechanisms to Promote Sustainable Development -- 12.7.3.3.Removing Existing Financial Mechanisms That Hamper Sustainable Development -- pt. C Financing Innovations (New Proposals) and Commentary -- 12.8.The SDR Proposal -- 12.9.An International Investment Agreement -- 12.10.The Global Environment Facility -- 12.10.1.The Establishment of the GEF -- 12.10.2.The GEF after Rio -- 12.10.3.Recent Developments and Future Prospects -- 12.11.Binary Economics -- 12.11.1.The Theoretical Fundamentals of Binary Economics -- 12.11.1.1.Implications of Underutilized Productive Capacity -- 12.11.2.Implementing Binary Economics -- 12.11.3.Some Implications of Binary Economics -- 12.11.3.1.A New Explanation of the Persistence of Pervasive Unutilized Productive Capacity and Suboptimal Growth -- 12.11.3.2.A Means of Providing Greater Earning Capacity to the Economically Disadvantaged (Poor and Working People) without Redistribution -- 12.11.3.3.A Change in the Dynamics of Globalization and Free Trade and the Arguments That Support the Various Positions on These Subjects -- 12.11.3.4.A Novel but Perhaps Indeterminate Impact on Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development -- 12.11.4.Commentary on the Prospects for Binary Economics -- 12.12.Microfinance -- 12.12.1.Microcredit -- 12.12.2.Micrograms -- 12.12.3.Savings and Insurance -- 12.13.Conclusion -- 12.14.Notes -- 12.15.References -- Appendix 12-A Acronyms -- Appendix 12-B Defining Aid -- Appendix 12-C The Millennium Development Goals and Targets -- pt. VI Strategic Policy Design for Sustainable Transformations -- 13.Pathways to Sustainability: Co-optimizing Economic Development, the Environment, and Employment -- 13.1.Introduction -- 13.2.Technological, Organizational, Institutional, and Social Innovation -- 13.2.1.Technological Innovation -- 13.2.2.Organizational Innovation -- 13.2.3.Institutional Innovation -- 13.2.4.Social Innovation -- 13.2.5.Commentary on Innovation -- 13.3.Governance Options to Achieve Sustainability -- 13.4.Alternative Postures of Government and Their Implications for Sustainable Transformations -- 13.5.Requirements of Transformations for Greater Sustainability -- 13.6.Technology-Based Strategies to Improve Productiveness; Health, Safety, and the Environment; and Employment -- 13.7.Policies and Approaches to Promote Sustainable Development -- 13.7.1.National Governance -- 13.7.1.1.Promoting More Sustainable Industrial Production and Consumption -- 13.7.1.2.Improving Health, Safety, and the Environment -- 13.7.1.3.Enhancing Meaningful, Rewarding, and Safer Employment and Adequate Earning Capacity -- 13.7.1.4.The Importance of Integration in the National Context -- 13.7.2.International Governance -- 13.7.2.1.Promoting More Sustainable Industrial Trade -- 13.7.2.2.Creating Incentives to Improve Health, Safety, and the Environment -- 13.7.2.3.Creating Incentives for Labor and Human Rights -- 13.8.The New Economics and Concluding Commentary -- 13.8.1.The New Economics -- 13.8.2.Monopoly Commerce, Specialization, and Vulnerability -- 13.8.3.Concluding Commentary -- 13.9.Notes -- 13.10.References.
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