Privatising Development

Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights

Edited by Michael B. Likosky

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 economy. These issues are explored through international organisation frameworks and internal policies, legislative guides, contracts, and public-private partnerships. The roles of the World Bank, MIGA, export credit agencies, the UN Commission on International Trade Law, credit ratings agencies, international banks, TNCs, NGOs, community groups and state agencies are examined.

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Editor:

Miichael B. Likosky

Category:

Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Human Rights

BIC2:

International human rights law

ISBN13:

9789004143319

Publication Year:

2005

Edition info:

Version:

Hardback

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxvi, 314 pp.

Imprint:

Martinus Nijhoff

Language:

English

Table of contents

Editor’s Introduction. ‘Privatising Development: Global Project Finance Law and Human Rights’, Michael B. Likosky;
Part One. Frameworks;
Chapter One. ‘Beyond Naming and Shaming: Towards a Human Rights Unit for Infrastructure Projects’, Michael B. Likosky;
Chapter Two. ‘An Evaluation of the World Bank’s New Comprehensive Development Framework’, Lan Cao; Comment. ‘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;
Chapter Three. ‘PRI and the Rise (and Fall?) of Private Investment in Public Infrastructure’, Kenneth W. Hansen;
Chapter Four. ‘Private Capital and Infrastructure: Tragic? Useful and Pleasant? Inevitable?’,Don Wallace, Jr.;
Chapter Five. ‘Rating, Dating, and the Informal Regulation and Formal Ordering of Financial Transactions: Securitisations and Credit Rating Agencies’, John Flood;
Chapter Six. ‘Privatisation in Modern Banking Regulation: Selective Supervisory and Enforcement Dimensions’, J. J. Norton and H. M. Shams;
Part Three. Human Rights and Democracy;
Chapter Seven. ‘Project Finance and Consent’, Carl S. Bjerre;
Chapter Eight. ‘From Global Forest Governance to Privatised Social Forestry: Company-Community Partnerships in the Ecuardorian Choco’, Laura Rival;
Chapter Nine. ‘Globalisation, Democracy, and the Need for a New Administrative Law’, Alfred C. Aman, Jr..

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