| Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis Contributor(s): Alonso, José Antonio (Editor), Ocampo, José Antonio (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231159668 ISBN-13: 9780231159661 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development - Business & Economics | International - Economics - Business & Economics | Finance - General |
| Dewey: 338.910 |
| LCCN: 2012000781 |
| Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Leading governments undertook extraordinary measures to offset the 2008 economic crisis, shoring up financial institutions, stimulating demand to reverse recession, and rebalancing budgets to alleviate sovereign debt. While productive in and of themselves, these solutions were effective because they were coordinated internationally and were matched with sweeping global financial reforms. Unfortunately, coordination has weakened after these initial steps, indicating one of the crisis's adverse effects will be a significant reduction in development cooperation. Urging advanced nations to improve their support for development, the contributors to this volume revisit the causes of the 2008 collapse and the ongoing effects of recession on global and developing economies. They reevaluate the international response to crisis and suggest more effective approaches to development cooperation. Experts on international aid join together to redesign the cooperation system and its governance, so it can accept new actors and better achieve the Millennial Development Goals of 2015 within the context of severe global crisis. In their introduction, Jos Antonio Alonso and Jos Antonio Ocampo summarize different chapters and the implications of their analyses, concluding with a frank assessment of global economic imbalance and the ability of increased cooperation to rectify these inequalities. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ocampo, Jose Antonio: - José Antonio Ocampo is codirector of Banco de la Republica (Colombia's central bank), professor in the School of International and Public Affairs (on leave for public service), and copresident of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. His books with Columbia University Press are Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach (2009, coauthor), Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis (2012, coedited with José Antonio Alonso), and Too Little, Too Late: The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises (2016, also coedited with Joseph E. Stiglitz), and The Welfare State Revisited (2018). |
