Chris Humphrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Humphrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Humphrey |
| SIGNATURE | HUMPHREY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8783-1688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
China in Africa
Minilateral' Development Banks
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are one of the most popular forms of international organization, with at least 27 operating in the world today. Although most academics and policy makers focus on the World Bank and major regional MDBs, the majority of MDBs are in fact relatively small, and controlled by developing as opposed to industrialized countries. How do the differing governance arrangements of these 'minilateral' development banks (Mn…
The Invisible Hand
This paper investigates how the unique financial model of multilateral development banks – dependent largely on issuing bonds in private capital markets to raise lending resources – came about in the early history of three different MDBs, and how this in turn shaped their operational characteristics. Historical research demonstrates that the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and Andean Development Corporation (CAF) converged on o…
The politics of loan pricing in multilateral development banks
This paper explores the political factors that determine the price of loans offered to borrowing countries by multilateral development banks (MDBs). The reasons why MDBs set their prices at a given level and why those prices might vary from one MDB to another has received scant attention in academia, even though inexpensive loan costs are the primary reason countries borrow from MDBs. The paper explores these issues in three MDBs, each with a dif…
Shopping for Development
Handbook of Transnational Economic Governance Regimes
Non-governmental organizations, transnational business associations, private standard-setting bodies, public-private partnerships, and institutionalized incentive schemes now occupy a central place in the regulation and governance of transnational economic affairs alongside states and intergovernmental organizations. Much of the literature on these new and emerging patterns of governance has focused on the legal, political, and normative implicat…
Handbook of transnational economic governance regimes
Additional records of frsh water fishes from Timor-Leste, with notes on the fish fauna of the unique land-locked Irasiquero River system
Timor is the largest of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which comprise the south-eastern part of the Indonesian Archipelago (Audley-Charles 1968).It is a non-volcanic island situated in the Outer Banda Arc which lies between the Sahul Shelf of Australia and the Sunda Shelf of South-east Asia (White et al. 2006).Timor-Leste (East Timor) occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor, encompassing an area of 14 875 km 2 (White et al. 2006).This note fo…
The testability of value claims
The Southern New Hebrides
China in Africa
Shopping for Development
The Southern New Hebrides
The politics of loan pricing in multilateral development banks
This paper explores the political factors that determine the price of loans offered to borrowing countries by multilateral development banks (MDBs). The reasons why MDBs set their prices at a given level and why those prices might vary from one MDB to another has received scant attention in academia, even though inexpensive loan costs are the primary reason countries borrow from MDBs. The paper explores these issues in three MDBs, each with a dif…
Minilateral' Development Banks
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are one of the most popular forms of international organization, with at least 27 operating in the world today. Although most academics and policy makers focus on the World Bank and major regional MDBs, the majority of MDBs are in fact relatively small, and controlled by developing as opposed to industrialized countries. How do the differing governance arrangements of these 'minilateral' development banks (Mn…
The Southern New Hebrides
The testability of value claims
Additional records of frsh water fishes from Timor-Leste, with notes on the fish fauna of the unique land-locked Irasiquero River system
Timor is the largest of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which comprise the south-eastern part of the Indonesian Archipelago (Audley-Charles 1968).It is a non-volcanic island situated in the Outer Banda Arc which lies between the Sahul Shelf of Australia and the Sunda Shelf of South-east Asia (White et al. 2006).Timor-Leste (East Timor) occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor, encompassing an area of 14 875 km 2 (White et al. 2006).This note fo…
Handbook of Transnational Economic Governance Regimes
Non-governmental organizations, transnational business associations, private standard-setting bodies, public-private partnerships, and institutionalized incentive schemes now occupy a central place in the regulation and governance of transnational economic affairs alongside states and intergovernmental organizations. Much of the literature on these new and emerging patterns of governance has focused on the legal, political, and normative implicat…
Handbook of transnational economic governance regimes
Shopping for Development
The politics of loan pricing in multilateral development banks
This paper explores the political factors that determine the price of loans offered to borrowing countries by multilateral development banks (MDBs). The reasons why MDBs set their prices at a given level and why those prices might vary from one MDB to another has received scant attention in academia, even though inexpensive loan costs are the primary reason countries borrow from MDBs. The paper explores these issues in three MDBs, each with a dif…
The Invisible Hand
This paper investigates how the unique financial model of multilateral development banks – dependent largely on issuing bonds in private capital markets to raise lending resources – came about in the early history of three different MDBs, and how this in turn shaped their operational characteristics. Historical research demonstrates that the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and Andean Development Corporation (CAF) converged on o…
China in Africa
Minilateral' Development Banks
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are one of the most popular forms of international organization, with at least 27 operating in the world today. Although most academics and policy makers focus on the World Bank and major regional MDBs, the majority of MDBs are in fact relatively small, and controlled by developing as opposed to industrialized countries. How do the differing governance arrangements of these 'minilateral' development banks (Mn…
Economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Finance (5 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Developing country (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Corporation (3 works)