ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Peacebuilding, Gustav Holst, Odious Debt
Document Summary
The international financial institutions: postconflict reconstruction and peacebuilding capacities. " paper prepared for the center on international cooperation, new. York university, on behalf of the royal ministry of foreign affairs, government of denmark, https://www. peri. umass. edu/fileadmin/pdf/boyce_-_ifis___peacebuilding_- Identifies current roles of the international financial institutions (ifi"s) in post conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding operations around the world. World bank has moved further than any other ifi"s when addressing distinctive challenges posed by the engagement in peacebuilding. After the immediate aftermath of the second world war, post conflict reconstruction was the critical principle occupation of the world bank. More recently the wb has focused more upon developmental assistance opposed to post conflict reconstruction. Mid 1990s demand grew for post conflict reconstruction, the wb became more willing to experiment with political considerations. 1997 the world bank"s board of directions approved a notion on framework paper for engagement within countries emerging from an intra-state conflict. High need to support reconstruction of enabling conditions of a functioning.
