Contents
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: INITIATIVES FOCUSING ON THE POOR
1. Supportive domestic policies for micro credit
2. Financing for the poor and women: a policy critique
3. A special role for foreign banks in poor countries
4. Stripping structural adjustment programmes of their poverty- reduction clothing
PART TWO: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY
5. What foreign direct investors provide and what they seek
6. Gender in international trade and investment policy
7. The global financial market is vast and can be tapped
8. Why is there not more international project financing for emerging economies today?
9. An investor's perspective on corporate governance in emerging markets
PART THREE: EVOLVING NATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND POLICIES
10. Financing for development in the context of national development planning
11. Financial restructuring in Thailand
12. Lessons for domestic financial policy from the Asian financial crisis
13. Liberalization of financial markets: the case for capital controls
PART FOUR: PROPOSALS FOR MAJOR INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
14. Rethinking and recommitting to official development assistance
15. A unified programme to bridge the digital divide
16. Spreading the capacity for effective demand for finance: a new cooperation framework
17. Required international initiatives in trade policy
18. Tax competition and tax havens
19. Currency transaction tax: an innovative resource for financing social development
20. Arbitration to solve the debt problem
21. Strengthening the Economic and Social Council
Notes on the contributors