INDEV100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bretton Woods Conference, International Monetary Fund, International Financial Institutions
31 Oct 2017
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Gender and development part ii: a gendered world order. What prevents them from promotion is not ability nor agency, it is an invisible structure: bretton woods conference in 1944, all male representatives (44 countries), india was represented by great britain, created two major international financial institutions: International monetary fund: fund- financial stability, designed to try to smooth out the money coming in and out of a country. Public, it is an inter-governmental organization (igo), short-term, macroeconomic: world bank: sectoral focus for development, it is also an igo, conditions must be met for lending the money, long term, low-interest, dis(cid:272)ourse (cid:449)as (cid:272)reati(cid:374)g (cid:858)order(cid:859) out of a(cid:374)ar(cid:272)hy(cid:859) John mayner keynes: state-led development through regulations, free trade, part of the cause of the war was that everyone was acting in their own self-interest. Idea that if we are all interdependent with each other, we will be more peaceful with each other.
