Privatising development : transnational law, infrastructure, and human rights / / edited by Michael B. Likosky.

• TeilnehmendeR: Likosky, Michael.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book looks at the shift since the 1980s away from state-financed and towards privatised international infrastructure projects.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Privatising Development: Project Finance Law and Human Rights -- PART ONE - FRAMEWORKS -- Beyond Naming and Shaming: Towards a Human Rights Unit for Infrastructure Projects -- An Evaluation of the World Bank's New Comprehensive Development Framework -- The "Ripple Effect" in Social Policy and its Political Content: A Debate on Social Standards in Public and Private Development Projects -- PART TWO - PRIVATISATION AND PROJECT FINANCE -- PRI and the Rise (and Fall?) of Private Investment in Public Infrastructure -- Private Capital and Infrastructure: Tragic? Useful and Pleasant? Inevitable? -- Rating, Dating, and the Informal Regulation and the Formal Ordering of Financial Transactions: Securitisations and Credit Rating Agencies -- Privatisation in Modern Banking Regulation: Selective Supervisory and Enforcement Dimensions -- PART THREE - DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- Project Finance and Consent -- From Global Forest Governance to Privatised Social Forestry: Company- Community Partnerships in the Ecuadorian Choco -- Globalisation, Democracy, and the Need for a New Administrative Law -- Index.