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Remarks by Domenico Lombardi
In: Proceedings of the annual meeting / American Society of International Law, Band 104, S. 346-360
ISSN: 2169-1118
The governance of the World Bank: Lessons from the corporate sector
In: The review of international organizations, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 287-323
ISSN: 1559-744X
The corporate goverance of the World Bank Group
The World Bank is, from a financial standpoint, organised like a corporation. Using its top credit rating (AAA), it raises funds in the international capital markets like any other financial institution for on-lending to its borrowing clients. As of June 2006, almost half (US$ 100 billion) of its US$ 212 billion total assets were in loans, while the stock of borrowings from financial markets amounted to US$ 96 billion. Like a large financial conglomerate, the World Bank is actually a group comprising five entities. Its primary component is the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), established at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 "to assist in the reconstruction and development of territories of members by facilitating the investment of capital for productive purposes" (Art. I). Subsequently, four additional components were created to enhance the Bank's ability to fulfill its purpose. In 1956, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) was established with the purpose of promoting the growth of the private sector in the economies of the World Bank's member countries. A few years later, in 1960, the International Development Association (IDA) was founded to provide financing to less-developed economies. Subsequently in 1985, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) was added to provide guarantees against noncommercial, or political, risk to foreign investors in the developing countries that are members of MIGA. Finally, the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), established in 1966, provides arbitration and conciliation for investment disputes between states and individual nationals of other states. (.)
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The governance of the World Bank: lessons from the corporate sector
In: The review of international organizations, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 287-323
ISSN: 1559-7431
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The Development Dimension of IMF Lending Policies
In: The international spectator: journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 95-113
ISSN: 1751-9721
The development dimension of IMF lending policies
In: The international spectator: a quarterly journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 95-113
ISSN: 0393-2729
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Exchange Rates Under the East Asian Dollar Standard: Living with Conflicted Virtue
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 116, Heft 512, S. F328-F331
ISSN: 1468-0297
The Imf's Role in Low-Income Countries: Issues and Challenges
In: IMF Working Paper, S. 1-42
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Delivering on Debt Relief: from IMF Gold to a new aid Architecture
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 113, Heft 491, S. F666-F668
ISSN: 1468-0297
Domestic Politics and External Financial Liberalization in China: The Capacity and Fragility of External Market Pressure
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 26, Heft 108, S. 785-800
ISSN: 1469-9400
Assessing the Appropriate Size of Relief in Sovereign Debt Restructuring
In: Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-9
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Domestic politics and external financial liberalization in China: the capacity and fragility of external market pressure
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 26, Heft 108, S. 785-800
ISSN: 1067-0564
This article explores how the Chinese Communist Party has relied in part on making global financial markets and institutions a source of external pressure to help pass domestic economic and financial reform. We explore two case studies of external financial liberalization: the listing of Chinese state-owned enterprises on foreign stock exchanges and the financial reform aspects of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. These studies show that external liberalization policies are interlinked with both micro- and macro-level reforms in the domestic economy. We conclude that, after 2005, this strategy of applying external pressure, in fact, did not lead to more comprehensive economic restructuring because the agents of external pressure - in this instance, foreign banks and accounting firms - were themselves party to the reinforcement of state control and ultimately did not (or could not) promote further external liberalization. Domestic agents that supported external liberalization were also quick to abandon it when external pressure conflicted with other domestic policy objectives. (J Contemp China/GIGA)
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The symbolic politics of delegation: macroprudential policy and independent regulatory authorities
In: New political economy, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 92-108
ISSN: 1356-3467
The symbolic politics of delegation: macroprudential policy and independent regulatory authorities
In: New political economy, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 92-108
ISSN: 1469-9923