Global governance, development and human security : the challenge of poverty and inequality

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Preface: Human Security in a Global Economy -- List of Boxes and Tables -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- PART ONE: The Human Security Challenge -- 1. Setting the Scene -- The Human Security Challenge -- Human Security -- The UNDP and Human Security -- Human Security: Looking Forward -- Poverty and Inequality: A Cause for Concern -- Neoliberal Development -- Global Governance: In Whose Interest? -- The Structure of the Book -- 2. Mapping Inequality -- Interstate Polarisation -- Intrastate Polarisation -- Mapping the World's Producers -- Mapping precarious workers -- Mapping the marginalised -- Polarisation in the Corporate Sector -- Conclusion -- 3. Ideas About Development -- Development History: Orthodox and Alternative Approaches -- The Orthodox Approach -- An Alternative Approach -- Neoliberal Ideas: The Washington Consensus -- The Spread of Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism Expands through the IFIs -- Global Conferences Lend Legitimacy to Neoliberalism -- Transnational Corporations (TNCs) -- Neoliberal Universalism under Fire -- Peasant Protest -- State and Regional Resistance -- Global-Level Resistance -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: Global Development Practice in the 1980s and 1990s -- 4. The Reform of National Economies -- The Role of the IMF and the World Bank -- Evaluating the Social and Economic Impact of Adjustment -- The Reformers Assessment -- The Transformers ' Assessment -- The IMF and the World Bank Respond -- The IMF, the HIPC and the PRGF -- A Greater Proportion of Lending for the Poor -- The Resilience of Neoliberal Development Ideology -- Conclusion -- 5. Liberalisation of Trade, Finance and Investment -- Trade Liberalisation -- Trade Liberalisation at the Global Level: From GATT to WTO -- The GATT Uruguay Round and the WTO -- Regional- Level Trade Liberalisation: NAFTA.