Policing the Banks : Accountability Mechanisms for the Financial

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Policing the Banks : Accountability Mechanisms for the Financial
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9780773534025
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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
0773534024
ISBN-13
9780773534025
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66850200

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
520 Pages
Publication Name
Policing the Banks : Accountability Mechanisms for the Financial Sector
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Banks & Banking, International Relations / General, Industries / Financial Services
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Business & Economics
Author
Maartje Van Putten
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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College Audience
Reviews
"Remarkable and pioneering - given the mounting public attention to the global problems of development finance, [this book] will attract a very broad audience." Peter H. Sand, University of Munich
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
332.1
Table Of Content
Abbreviations; Foreword by James McNeill; Acknowledgments; Introduction 1 Globalization and the Rise of Accountability Mechanisms; 2 The World Bank and the History of Accountability; 3 Inception of the World Bank Inspection Panel, Its Mandate, and Its Structure; 4 Accountability Mechanisms in Other Multilateral Financial Institutions; 5 Accountability for the Private Financial Sector; 6 The Daily Work of an Accountability Mechanism; 7 Results of an International Survey; 8 A Swan Song and a Major New Development: Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Mechanisms Appendices: 1 Resolution Establishing the World Bank Inspection Panel; 2 The Equator Principles II, July 26; 3 Background Interviews; 4 Experts Who Contributed to the Study Notes; Websites; Bibliography; Index
Synopsis
Maartje van Putten chronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank and major commercial banks., From 1999 to 2004 Maartje van Putten served as a member of the World Bank's Inspection Panel. Using personal experience and extensive interviews with principal decision-makers and stakeholders in the Panel's work, she chronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank and other major financial entities.Describing how formerly secretive financial institutions have been slow to accept responsibility for the consequences of their investments - especially the problems that can result from projects in developing countries - she shows that financing institutions can cause significant social and environmental damage and argues that new accountability mechanisms are necessary to reduce or prevent such damage. Because such institutions operate on a global scale, only semi-judicial accounting mechanisms can provide the necessary accountability. It is time for the private financial sector to follow multilateral financial institutions in creating independent mechanisms, mediation procedures, and access to decision makers for people harmed or potentially harmed by projects financed by their institutions.Policing the Banks is a passionate plea for global accountability for all powerful financial players - including the transnational private banks that are now entering the scramble for profits from development projects in the third world.
LC Classification Number
HG1615

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