The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges

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Inge Kaul, Pedro Conceicao
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 M02 23 - 664 pages
The world's agenda of international cooperation has changed. The conventional concerns of foreign affairs, international trade, and development assistance, are increasingly sharing the political center stage with a new set of issues. These include trans-border concerns such as global financial stability and market efficiency, risk of global climate change, bio-diversity conservation, control of resurgent and new communicable diseases, food safety, cyber crime and e-commerce, control of drug trafficking, and international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Globalization and increasing porosity of national borders have been key driving forces that have led to growing interdependence and interlocking of the public domains--and therefore, public policy concerns--of countries, governments, private businesses, civil society, and people at large. Thus, new and different issues are now occupying top places on national policy agendas, and consequently, on the agendas of international negotiating forums. The policy approaches to global challenges are also changing. A proliferation and diversification of international cooperation efforts include focus on financing arrangements. Financing of international cooperation in most instances is a haphazard and non-transparent process and often seems to run parallel to international negotiations. There are many unfunded mandates and many-non-mandatory funds.To agree on and to achieve international economic goals, we need to understand how financing of international cooperation efforts actually works. Our understanding is hampered by two gaps: 1) lack of an integrated and cohesive theoretical framework; 2) lack of consolidated empirical and operational knowledge in the form of a comprehensive inventory of past, current and possible future (i.e. currently deliberated) financing mechanisms.This book reduces these two gaps and provides a guide to improve our ability to finance international cooperation.

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Contents

THE CHANGES UNDER WAY
28
THE NEW NATIONAL PUBLIC FINANCE
71
MAKING POLICY UNDER EFFICIENCY PRESSURES
109
INTERNALIZING CROSSBORDER SPILLOVERS
131
COMBINING FISCAL SOVEREIGNTY AND COORDINATION
167
RECOGNIZING THE LIMITS TO COOPERATION BEHIND
194
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC FINANCE
217
ACCOMMODATING NEW ACTORS AND NEW PURPOSES
269
COMPENSATING COUNTRIES FOR THE PROVISION
371
CREATING NEW MARKETS
389
USING MARKETS MORE EFFECTIVELY
417
ASSESSING CONTRACTUAL AND STATUTORY APPROACHES
433
PLACING THE EMPHASIS ON REGULATION
453
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC FINANCE
469
RECTIFYING CAPITAL MARKET IMPERFECTIONS
486
PULLING NOT PUSHING REFORMS
510

MAKING THE RIGHT MONEY AVAILABLE AT THE RIGHT TIME
281
TAKING SELFINTEREST INTO ACCOUNT
304
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC FINANCE
325
IN POVERTY REDUCTION
564
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