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This book focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities for International Financial Institutions in the post-crisis world. It includes contributions from academics, practitioners and Bank staff. The contributions cover a broad array of issues, included governance reform and constitutional framework of IFIs, privileges and immunities, responsibility of international organizations, issues related to fragile and conflict-affected states, climate finance, and the recent financial crisis. The book is organized in three main areas, namely (i) Law of International Organizations: Issues Confronting IFIs; (ii) Legal Obligations and Institutions of Developing Countries: Rethinking Approaches of IFIs; and (iii) International Finance and the Challenges of Regulatory Governance.
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Much of the content in this third volume of The World Bank Legal Review came from contributing speakers at the November 2010 World Bank-coordinated Law, Justice and Development Week. Topics in this collection of 15 papers primarily focus on international financial institutions (IFIs) as international organizations and development agencies and examination of international regulatory governance. Subject headings include issues confronting international IFIs, legal obligations and institutions of developing countries and reshaping the approach of IFIs, and international finance and the challenges of regulatory governance. Editors are Cissé (deputy general counsel, knowledge and research, World Bank), Bradlow (international development law and African Economics, U. of Pretoria, South Africa, and law, Washington College of Law), and Kingsbury (law, New York U. School of Law). Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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