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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Likosky, Michael.
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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