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ABOUT THE BOOK Developing countries’ efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of development and anti-poverty targets adopted by the international community, are confronted with a host of challenges, not least those posed by an unfavourable international economic setting. This book puts together two Third World Network papers which look at how the global financial and trade systems may impede realization of the MDGs. The first paper considers how key elements in the international financial architecture – IMF loan conditionalities, the debt burden and capital account liberalization – can hinder the implementation of national MDG strategies. The second paper examines the potential adverse impacts of trade liberalization and other provisions in international trade treaties on developing-country prospects for achieving the MDGs. The analysis in these papers underlines the urgent need to address the financial the financial and trade constraints on progress towards attaining the MDGs in the developing world. Contents Achieving the Millennium Development Goals requires fundamental reforms National development strategies are critical for achieving the MDGs MDG Goal 8: To develop a global partnership for development Three key areas in the international financial architecture impeding the MDGs Macroeconomic policy framework Debt sustainability and debt resolution mechanism Financial liberalization Innovative financing mechanisms: Special Drawing Rights and financial transactions taxes The role of the United Nations in global economic governance Endnotes
Preliminary analysis: Some ways in which MDGs are affected by North-South free trade agreements (FTAs) and the WTO What about the benefits of trade liberalization? How trade agreements can impede attainment of the MDGs Endnote PRICE POSTAGE Third World countries
Other foreign countries US$8.00 US$2.00 (air); US$1.00 (sea) (For orders of more than 3 copies, please write in for reduced postal rate) How to Order the Book Visit our TWN Online Bookshop or contact Third World Network at 131 Jalan Macalister, 10400 Penang, Malaysia. Tel: 604-2266159 Fax: 604-2264505 Email for further information. |
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