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This book seeks to understand how governance agendas are constructed at both the global and national levels and asks what factors define success and failure in their implementation. It features case studies drawn from Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Analyzing twenty-first century innovations in global health governance, this volume addresses questions of pandemics, essential medicines and disease eradication through detailed case studies of critical and rapidly spreading infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and SARS and 'lifestyle' illnesses such as tobacco-related illnesses, all of which are at the centre of the current global health challenge.

Metropolregionen haben in Forschung, Raumordnungspolitik und Praxis zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Stärkung der regionalen Zusammenarbeit und der Einsatz effektiver, d. h. zielorientierter Governance sind heutzutage unerlässlich. Dieses Buch ist als Beitrag zu einer sich verstärkenden Debatte um Governance in den Metropolregionen zu verstehen. Dabei werden Einblicke in die Praxis von den Praktikern selbst gegeben, die in den 11 anerkannten europäischen Metropolregionen in Deutschland arbeiten. Jede Metropolregion erläutert ihre Geschichte und Arbeitsweise. Die Methode des Storytelling soll die Mannigfaltigkeit und Kontextabhängigkeit der regionalen Governance-Arrangements illustrieren. Damit ist das Buch sowohl für die Wissenschaft als Material für die weitere Governance-Diskussion von Bedeutung; ebenso ist es als eine Handreichung für die politische und die Verwaltungspraxis zu verstehen. Diese Besonderheit des Buches dürfte von außerordentlichem Interesse für die Debatte um die Metropolregionen im Speziellen aber auch für die Debatte über Governance im Allgemeinen sein.

"This paper conducts the first empirical assessment of theories concerning relationships among risk taking by banks, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate governance structure of each bank. Moreover, we show that the relation between bank risk and capital regulations, deposit insurance policies, and restrictions on bank activities depends critically on each bank's ownership structure, such that the actual sign of the marginal effect of regulation on risk varies with ownership concentration. These findings have important policy implications as they imply that the same regulation will have different effects on bank risk taking depending on the bank's corporate governance structure"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

This paper examines the effects of IMF financial assistance on economic governance in developing countries, based on panel data analyses of perceived governance indicators. It uses a two-stage approach to address possible endogeneity issues. The results show that successful implementation of IMF programs is associated with improvements in the quality of economic governance. Specifically, the paper finds statistically robust results that IMF concessional programs through the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility tend to enhance the rule of law and strengthen control of corruption. Through this

Most South Asian countries-following independence from British rule in the. late nineteen forties, and in the case of Nepal, liberation from the autocracy. of one family group in 1950-have enjoyed democratic systems of governance. at least at some time or the other, often for extended periods of time, and, in. a few cases, over the course of their post-independence history. Electoral processes. have, however, been found wanting to greater or lesser extents in all these countries. Electoral malpractices are of critical concern to all South Asian countries. It is in this background that the Inte

Contributed papers; with reference to India

This paper opens with a short recollection of the Kiel Week Conference of 2002, recorded in a volume edited by Horst Siebert, titled Global Governance: An Architecture for the World Economy. Assess-ments and forecasts made at that time are scored against subsequent developments. Security relations between the great powers are asserted to define the space for global economic governance. Over the next thirty years, the security context is not likely to provide the same inspiration for global economic institutions as the Cold War once did; instead, economic institutions will stand or fall on their own merits in meeting urgent challenges. The paper identifies and evaluates six challenges that are already with us, but which do not impose immediate acute costs on the great powers: climate change, financial crises, the world trading system, oil supplies, immigration, and economic responses to political chaos. A few of these, but not the majority, are seen as good candidates for global governance in the next decade. The paper concludes with speculation on four very low probability challenges that would im-pose acute costs (or present great opportunities) if they occur: pandemics, terrorism on the high seas, treasures from the deep seabed, and the prospect of a killer asteroid.