Using panel data for 188 countries over the period 1970-2002 this paper empirically analyzes the influence of the IMF and the World Bank on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. Countries receiving adjustment programs and larger non-concessional loans from the World Bank vote more...

Using panel data for 143 countries over the period 1973 - 2002, this paper empirically analyzes the influence of US aid on voting patterns in the UN General Assembly. We use disaggregated aid data to account for the fact that various forms of aid may differ in their ability to induce political...

Introduction : thinking about global governance and Japan / Glenn D. Hook and Anthony Payne -- Global governance and the Group of Seven/Eight / Hugo Dobson -- Global governance, Japan and the Group of Seven/Eight / Endō Seiji-- Global governance and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and...