Privatising Development : Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights.

This book looks at the shift since the 1980s away from state-financed and towards privatised international infrastructure projects. An interdisciplinary group of contributors look at the relationship between privatisation and human rights in diverse national settings and in multiple sectors of the e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Likosky, Michael B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: BRILL 2005.
Temas:
Investments, Foreign > Law and legislation.
Economic development projects > Finance > Law and legislation.
Human rights.
Economic development projects > Finance > Political aspects.
Economic development projects > Finance > Environmental aspects.
Economic development projects > Law and legislation.
Privatization.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Privatisation.
Economic development projects > Finance > Law and legislation
Economic development projects > Law and legislation
Human rights
Investments, Foreign > Law and legislation
Privatization
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Privatising Development: Project Finance Law and Human Rights (Michael B. Likosky)
  • PART ONE FRAMEWORKS
  • Beyond Naming and Shaming: Towards a Human Rights Unit for Infrastructure Projects (Michael B. Likosky)
  • An Evaluation of the World Bank's New Comprehensive Development Framework (Lan Cao)
  • The 'Ripple Effect' in Social Policy and its Political Content: A Debate on Social Standards in Public and Private Development Projects (Michael M. Cernea)
  • PART TWO PRIVATISATION AND PROJECT FINANCE.
  • PRI and the Rise (and Fall?) of Private Investment in Public Infrastructure (Kenneth W. Hansen)
  • Private Capital and Infrastructure: Tragic? Useful and Pleasant? Inevitable? (Don Wallace, Jr.)
  • Rating, Dating, and the Informal Regulation and the Formal Ordering of Financial Transactions: Securitisations and Credit Rating Agencies (John Flood)
  • Privatisation in Modern Banking Regulation: Selective Supervisory and Enforcement Dimensions (J.J. Norton and H.M. Shams)
  • PART THREE DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
  • Project Finance and Consent (Carl S. Bjerre).
  • From Global Forest Governance to Privatised Social Forestry: Company-Community Partnerships in the Ecuadorian Choco (Laura Rival)
  • Globalisation, Democracy, and the Need for a New Administrative Law (Alfred C. Aman, Jr.)
  • Index.

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