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Privatising development : transnational law, infrastructure, and human rights / edited by Michael B. Likosky.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Investments, Foreign--Law and legislation.
- Investments, Foreign.
- Economic development projects--Finance--Law and legislation.
- Economic development projects.
- Human rights.
- Economic development projects--Finance--Political aspects.
- Economic development projects--Finance--Environmental aspects.
- Economic development projects--Law and legislation.
- Privatization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book looks at the shift since the 1980s away from state-financed and towards privatised international infrastructure projects.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86788-4
- 9786610867882
- 90-474-0730-X
- OCLC:
- 182530715
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