Research Catalog

Title

The future of development financing : challenges and strategic choices / Francisco Sagasti, Keith Bezanson, and Fernando Prada.

Author

Sagasti, Francisco R.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Bezanson, Keith A.
• Prada, Fernando.

Description

xvi, 238 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Today's international development financing system is not much of a system. It is rather a collection of disjointed entities that lack coherence, often work at cross-purposes and are not up to the task of mobilizing adequate amounts of appropriate finance to assist developing countries in their efforts to reduce poverty and improve living standards. This book brings together the vast array of new initiatives in financing mechanisms as well as recent attempts to transform the development finance architecture. Based on four different scenarios for the next ten year period, proposals are made for how to reach an effective system. It is argued that the early years of the twenty-first century have brought about an unprecedented window of opportunity for reforms. But in order to use this opportunity leadership and strategic action is needed."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Finance > Developing countries
• International finance
• Economic development > Finance
• Economic assistance > Developing countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The inheritance : evolution of the international development system and of development financing -- 2. Attempted change : recent attemps to transform the international development financing architecture -- 3. Building scenarios for international development finance -- 4. The shape of things to come : scenarios and their policy implications -- 5. Concluding remarks : strategy, commitment and prospects.

ISBN

1403949514

LCCN

2005040542

OCLC

• ocm58051415
• SCSB-5196273

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries