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.

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