E-Book Table of Contents

Home

The E-Book on International Finance and Development

Table of Contents

Preface

By Professor Enrique Carrasco

Part One

Pursuing The Good Life: The Meaning of Development As It Relates To The World Bank and The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

I. How the Concept of Development Got Started

II. The Functions of the IMF and the World Bank

III. Competing Theories of Economic Development

IV. The 1960s and 1970s: The World Bank Attacks Poverty;
Developing Countries Attack the IMF

V. The 1980's: The Debt Crisis and the Lost Decade

Part Two

Citizens, National Governments, & International Financial Institutions:
Changing Conceptions of Development in The 1990s

I. Development in the 1990s

II. 50th Anniversary of the World Bank and the IMF Prompts Criticisms

III. The IMF and the World Bank Respond to Criticisms

IV. Participatory Development and NGOs: A Look at the World Bank in the 1990s

V. Good Governance and Transparency: Their Impact on Development

Part Three

Private Capital and Development:
Challenges Facing International Financial Institutions in a Globalized Economy in the Late 1990s

I. Globalization in the 1990s

II. International Capital Markets and Their Importance

III. Development, the IMF, and Institutional Investors:
The Mexican Financial Crisis

IV. The Promises and Perils of Globalization:
The Asian Financial Crisis

V. Coping With Private Capital Markets

VI. 1998/1999 Update: The Asian Crisis Goes Global

Part Four

The Advent of the 21st Century:
Major Developments in International Finance and Development

I. Foreign Debt: Forgiveness and Repudiation

II. Remittances and Development