Financing Development: The G8 and UN Contribution
| By: | Kirton, John J., Professor |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754646761 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409498308 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The critical challenge of financing development and sustainability is a key focus for the world's international financial institutions, led by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and, above all, the G8. This volume assesses the current practice and perspectives of the major developed world countries that dominate the boards of the IMF and the World Bank and comprise the G8. It looks at the prospects for meeting the Millennium Development Goals in the most impoverished region of Africa, the way trade and finance instruments can help, and how the challenges of energy security and climate change control will affect the results.
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