Title: Reforming the international financial architecture: the new political agenda
Abstract: It is odd how just a few financial crises can make the annual meetings of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (together with the World
Trade Organisation (WTO)) hotbeds of activism and protest. Where once these were
staid affairs attended by top-level bureaucrats and finance ministers from around the
world, they have recently become prime sites for protesting against the role which
powerful international economic institutions play in the world today. One of the key
demands voiced by demonstrators at these meetings is to make the decision-making
structure of the global economy more democratic and accountable. Yet, few of these
activists would probably accept just how radically one key element of this structure
has changed since its formation in the closing days of the Second World War.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-09-02
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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