Visible Hands - Taking Responsibility for Social Development (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development , 2000, 194 p.)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

OVERVIEW

CHAPTER 1 - Globalization with a human mask

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From development to adjustment

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Equity sidelined

The positive East Asian example

The Social Summit

Globalization and economic growth

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Growth and trade

Growth and financial flows

Liberalization and jobs

Unfavourable trends in employment

Poverty and inequality

The causes of failure

New views on growth and social development

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Targeting the poor

Comprehensive development frameworks

Social services and world trade

Globalizing social standards

New architectures?

Globalization with a human mask

CHAPTER 2 - Who pays? Financing social development

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Debt relief for the poorest countries

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The HIPC initiative

Pressure for alternatives

Debt relief for middle-income countries

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The debt crisis

The new bondage

Fresh departures for debt

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New institutions for dealing with debt

Sovereign debt and bankruptcy

Conditionality

Development assistance

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Donor fatigue

Reorienting development assistance

The 20/20 initiative

Alternatives to rigid targeting

Alternatives to aid

Tax reform

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The eroding tax base

Taxing the consumer

International avoidance

Pension reform

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Other issues in social protection

Mobilizing resources at the grassroots

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Micro-finance

A balance sheet

CHAPTER 3 - Fragile democracies

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The governing dilemma

Incomplete transitions

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Latin America - military impunity

Overcoming opposition in Africa

The nomenklatura of Eastern Europe and Central Asia

The progress of political parties

President or parliament?

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Industrialized countries

Developing and transition countries

Democracy as means or end?

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The developmental state

The democratic alternative

The rise of the technocrats

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The rise of the central bank

The rise of the technocratic finance minister

The new managerialism

Encouragement from Washington

Technocracy and democracy

Interest groups and social pacts

Ethnicity and democratization

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The risk of secession

Electoral systems and ethnic diversity

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Pluralistic parties and the alternative vote

Consociation and the party list

The merits of different systems

The democratic process

CHAPTER 4 - A new mission for the public sector

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Pressures for reform

Fiscal stability

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Public expenditure targets

Expenditure cuts in the social sector

The social effects of privatization

Managerial efficiency

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The results of reform

Public accountability

Capacity building

The future of public sector reform

CHAPTER 5 - Calling corporations to account

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From confrontation to partnership

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Codes and verification

Corporate motivation

Piecemeal progress

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Inflated claims

Alternatives to confrontation

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Voluntary initiatives

Partnerships

From hard to soft

CHAPTER 6 - Civil societies

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Civil society and service delivery

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The changing character of NGDOs

NGDOs and the international aid system

State versus NGDO provisioning

Precarious partnerships

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CSO-local government partnerships

Community and gender tensions

Civil society and international advocacy

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CSOs and the UN

CSOs and the World Bank

CSOs and the Inter-American Development Bank

CSOs and the international treaty bodies

The future for international NGO mobilization

Intelligence, energy and rights

CHAPTER 7 - Getting development right for women

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Women in democratization

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Working within and against the state

Women in politics

The impact of women on government

Women’s NGOs

Fulfilling women’s rights

Reproductive health rights

Women’s education rights

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Why poor girls get less education

Donor-driven education reforms

Quality lags behind quantity

Women’s economic rights

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Work and empowerment

Strategies for achieving economic rights

A counter-alliance for women

CHAPTER 8 - Sustaining development

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Sustainable cities

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Local agenda 21

Sustainable agriculture

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Policies for sustainable agriculture

Sustainable water supplies

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Damning the dams

New channels for irrigation

Forest conservation

Enduring realities

Continuity or change?

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

BACKGROUND PAPERS

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