Jiajun Xu (Beijing Peking University)

Beyond US Hegemony in International Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides essential background on China's bid for increasing influence over the US hegemonic architecture of international financial institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781107172845
• ISBN-10: 1107172845
• Artikelnr.: 46467088

Autorenporträt

Jiajun Xu is the co-founder (together with Professor Justin Yifu Lin) and Executive Deputy Director of the Centre for New Structural Economics at Peking University, Beijing. Xu worked as a Junior Research Specialist at the United Nations' High Level Panel Secretariat on the Post-2015 Development Agenda responsible for the research on development financing and South¿South Cooperation. She also worked as an international consultant on debt sustainability in the World Bank and productive capacity building for least-developed countries at the UNDESA Committee for Development Policy Secretariat. Xu holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) from the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. IDA burden-sharing: the unresolved puzzle
2. Three power plays behind the politics of IDA burden-sharing
3. IDA in the 1960s: hegemonic leadership amid bipolar geopolitics
4. IDA in the 1970s: a turbulent era with accelerated burden-shifting
5. IDA in the 1980s: the rise and retreat of the 'Reagan revolution'
6. IDA in the 1990s: the struggle for power and fairness in a unipolar world
7. IDA in the new millennium: leadership in transition?
8. China's ascendancy: influence from within and impact from outside
Conclusion
Bibliography.