Ngaire Woods
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3775994 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ngaire Woods |
| PRENOMES | Ngaire |
| SOBRENOME | Woods |
| ASSINATURA | WOODS N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2513-3171 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 361 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Multilateralism in the Twenty-First Century
The rise of geostrategic rivalry between the United States and China is changing international cooperation. As China seeks new influence and the United States seeks to contain China and to reduce its own international obligations, three dimensions of multilateralism are becoming particularly important. The first is the management of the superpower rivalry, through formal treaties, informal arrangements among states, and international institutions…
Theorizing the role of executive heads in international organizations
International Relations scholars have long neglected the question of leadership in international organizations. The structural turn in International Relations led to an aversion to analysing or theorizing the impact of individuals. Yet, empirical studies suggest that different leaders affect the extent to which international organizations facilitate cooperation among states and/or the capacity of a global agency to deliver public goods. It is dif…
The IMF's Unmet Challenges
The International Monetary Fund is a controversial institution whose interventions regularly provoke passionate reactions. We will argue that there is an important role for the IMF in helping to solve information, commitment, and coordination problems with significant implications for the stability of national economies and the international monetary and financial system. In executing these functions, the effectiveness of the IMF, like that of a …
Improving health aid for a better planet
BACKGROUND: International development assistance for health (DAH) quadrupled between 1990 and 2012, from US$ 5.6 billion to US$ 28.1 billion. This generates an increasing need for transparent and replicable tools that could be used to set investment priorities, monitor the distribution of funding in real time, and evaluate the impact of those investments. METHODS: In this paper we present a methodology that addresses these three challenges. We ca…
The Globalizers
"The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy."—from the IntroductionThe greatest success of the International Mo…
The Political Economy of Globalization
Globalization has become a particularly fashionable way to analyse changes in the international economy and in world politics. Advances in technology and modern communications are said to have unleashed new contacts and intercourse among peoples, social movements, transnational corporations, and governments. The result is a set of processes which have affected national and international politics in an extraordinary way. The chapters of this volum…
The Politics of Global Regulation
Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory capture" happens, and how it can be averted. Walte…
The politics of influence
IMF surveillance is typically thought to have effect because it provides useful information to member countries, because it engages countries in cooperative behaviour or because it piggy-backs the bargaining power the IMF enjoys in some countries. This article explores IMF surveillance by bringing to bear theoretical explanations as to why and how these effects might work. The simplest explanation is a rationalist-realist one that the IMF has imp…
Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance
Journal Article Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance Get access NGAIRE WOODS NGAIRE WOODS 1Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 1205–1221, https://doi.org…
Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contri…
Understanding Pathways Through Financial Crises and the Impact of the IMF
The International Monetary Fund is often perceived as imposing harsh policies on countries facing financial crisis. A comparison of six countries affected by the pressures of the 1990s suggests more subtle effects. In Malaysia, India, and South Africa, policymakers kept the IMF at arms length to permit a more gradual and heterodox adjustment, including capital controls in India and Malaysia. By contrast, Argentina, Turkey, and Indonesia were boun…
Uneven patterns of governance
The IMF is governed by a 24-member Executive Board which represents 184 countries. Although often prized as a small and efficient decision-making body, the Board represents some countries more effectively than others. This is due to the institutional structure and incentives within which the Board operates. Prime among them is a system of constituencies which have formed and evolved as countries have sought to improve their position in the organi…
Making corporate self-regulation effective in developing countries
The shifting politics of foreign aid
Aid for good governance is much in the news. Wealthy countries promised dramatically to increase aid to the world's poorest countries at the G8 meeting in Gleneagles in 2005, agreeing to double aid for Africa by 2010 and noted that according to the OECD, aid for all developing countries would increase by around $50 billion per year by 2010 (Gleneagles G8 Communique, 8 July 2005 at www.g8.gov.uk). Promoting good governance is at the heart of these…
Holding Intergovernmental Institutions to Account
How can governments and peoples better hold to account international economic institutions, such as the WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF? This article proposes an approach based on public accountability, advocating improvements in four areas: constitutional, political, financial, and internal accountability. The argument for more accountability is made with two caveats: more accountability is not always good–it can be distorting and costly; and, …
Governance and the Limits of Accountability
Over the past two decades the functions of international economic institutions have greatly expanded to include programmes and policies which affect a wider range of people, groups, and organisations than before. Where previously people could hold their national governments to account for such policies, they must now look to international institutions where the decisions are being made. But to whom are these institutions accountable and are they …
Making the IMF and the World Bank more Accountable
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (the Bank)1 are now regularly accused of being secretive, unaccountable and ineffective. Not only radical non-governmental organizations (NGOs) but equally their major shareholders are demanding that the institutions become more transparent, more accountable and more participatory. Accountability, in particular, has become the catchcry of officials, scholars and activists in discussing the …
The Political Economy of Globalization
The Challenge of Good Governance for the IMF and the World Bank Themselves
Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics
Inequality is becoming an urgent issue of world politics at the end of the twentieth century. Globalization is not only exacerbating the gap between rich and poor in the world, but is also further dividing those states and peoples that have political power and influence from those without. While the powerful shape more ‘global’ rules and norms about investment, military security, and environmental and social policy, the less powerful are becoming…
Good Governance in International Organizations
ood governance moved onto the agenda of many international or ganizations at the end of the Cold War when calls for democracy ^*??^ and better government became louder and as expectations were heightened as to what international organizations might do to further this aim. Many multilateral agencies?from the UN to multilateral develop ment banks?took up the summons. They are now part of a chorus of voices urging governments across the world to hee…
Russia and the IMF
Russia's economic crisis in the summer of 1998 has renewed debate as to whether the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has helped, hindered or been irrelevant to economic transition in the core of the former Soviet Union. The authors examine the relationship between the Fund and Russia over the past ten years, highlighting a mixed record of successes, failures and the limits of the Fund's role. They argue that the institution may well have also in…
Globalisation and Inequality
Neglected in liberal and other writings about globalisation is one particularly important feature of world politics: inequality. This chapter highlights the relationship between globalisation and inequality. It argues that inequality matters not just on grounds of equity, but is also important for understanding the nature of globalisation and its impact on world politics. Inequalities among states both shape the process of globalisation and are a…
Economic Ideas and International Relations
This article makes the case for investigating much more closely the substance of economic ideas in international relations. Recent attention to ideas in international relations assesses the impact of ideas on policy making but tells us very little about what types of economic ideas are most likely to be influential. Rather, the attention in "rationalist" approaches to international political economy is on political processes, given a set of actor…
A third world voice within the IMF
(1990). A third world voice within the IMF? The Round Table: Vol. 79, No. 314, pp. 189-197
Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance
Journal Article Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance Get access NGAIRE WOODS NGAIRE WOODS 1Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 1205–1221, https://doi.org…
The Challenge of Good Governance for the IMF and the World Bank Themselves
Globalisation and Inequality
Neglected in liberal and other writings about globalisation is one particularly important feature of world politics: inequality. This chapter highlights the relationship between globalisation and inequality. It argues that inequality matters not just on grounds of equity, but is also important for understanding the nature of globalisation and its impact on world politics. Inequalities among states both shape the process of globalisation and are a…
Economic Ideas and International Relations
This article makes the case for investigating much more closely the substance of economic ideas in international relations. Recent attention to ideas in international relations assesses the impact of ideas on policy making but tells us very little about what types of economic ideas are most likely to be influential. Rather, the attention in "rationalist" approaches to international political economy is on political processes, given a set of actor…
Making corporate self-regulation effective in developing countries
The politics of influence
IMF surveillance is typically thought to have effect because it provides useful information to member countries, because it engages countries in cooperative behaviour or because it piggy-backs the bargaining power the IMF enjoys in some countries. This article explores IMF surveillance by bringing to bear theoretical explanations as to why and how these effects might work. The simplest explanation is a rationalist-realist one that the IMF has imp…
Governance and the Limits of Accountability
Over the past two decades the functions of international economic institutions have greatly expanded to include programmes and policies which affect a wider range of people, groups, and organisations than before. Where previously people could hold their national governments to account for such policies, they must now look to international institutions where the decisions are being made. But to whom are these institutions accountable and are they …
Uneven patterns of governance
The IMF is governed by a 24-member Executive Board which represents 184 countries. Although often prized as a small and efficient decision-making body, the Board represents some countries more effectively than others. This is due to the institutional structure and incentives within which the Board operates. Prime among them is a system of constituencies which have formed and evolved as countries have sought to improve their position in the organi…
Making the IMF and the World Bank more Accountable
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (the Bank)1 are now regularly accused of being secretive, unaccountable and ineffective. Not only radical non-governmental organizations (NGOs) but equally their major shareholders are demanding that the institutions become more transparent, more accountable and more participatory. Accountability, in particular, has become the catchcry of officials, scholars and activists in discussing the …
Good Governance in International Organizations
ood governance moved onto the agenda of many international or ganizations at the end of the Cold War when calls for democracy ^*??^ and better government became louder and as expectations were heightened as to what international organizations might do to further this aim. Many multilateral agencies?from the UN to multilateral develop ment banks?took up the summons. They are now part of a chorus of voices urging governments across the world to hee…
The shifting politics of foreign aid
Aid for good governance is much in the news. Wealthy countries promised dramatically to increase aid to the world's poorest countries at the G8 meeting in Gleneagles in 2005, agreeing to double aid for Africa by 2010 and noted that according to the OECD, aid for all developing countries would increase by around $50 billion per year by 2010 (Gleneagles G8 Communique, 8 July 2005 at www.g8.gov.uk). Promoting good governance is at the heart of these…
Theorizing the role of executive heads in international organizations
International Relations scholars have long neglected the question of leadership in international organizations. The structural turn in International Relations led to an aversion to analysing or theorizing the impact of individuals. Yet, empirical studies suggest that different leaders affect the extent to which international organizations facilitate cooperation among states and/or the capacity of a global agency to deliver public goods. It is dif…
Holding Intergovernmental Institutions to Account
How can governments and peoples better hold to account international economic institutions, such as the WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF? This article proposes an approach based on public accountability, advocating improvements in four areas: constitutional, political, financial, and internal accountability. The argument for more accountability is made with two caveats: more accountability is not always good–it can be distorting and costly; and, …
The IMF's Unmet Challenges
The International Monetary Fund is a controversial institution whose interventions regularly provoke passionate reactions. We will argue that there is an important role for the IMF in helping to solve information, commitment, and coordination problems with significant implications for the stability of national economies and the international monetary and financial system. In executing these functions, the effectiveness of the IMF, like that of a …
Multilateralism in the Twenty-First Century
The rise of geostrategic rivalry between the United States and China is changing international cooperation. As China seeks new influence and the United States seeks to contain China and to reduce its own international obligations, three dimensions of multilateralism are becoming particularly important. The first is the management of the superpower rivalry, through formal treaties, informal arrangements among states, and international institutions…
Russia and the IMF
Russia's economic crisis in the summer of 1998 has renewed debate as to whether the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has helped, hindered or been irrelevant to economic transition in the core of the former Soviet Union. The authors examine the relationship between the Fund and Russia over the past ten years, highlighting a mixed record of successes, failures and the limits of the Fund's role. They argue that the institution may well have also in…
Understanding Pathways Through Financial Crises and the Impact of the IMF
The International Monetary Fund is often perceived as imposing harsh policies on countries facing financial crisis. A comparison of six countries affected by the pressures of the 1990s suggests more subtle effects. In Malaysia, India, and South Africa, policymakers kept the IMF at arms length to permit a more gradual and heterodox adjustment, including capital controls in India and Malaysia. By contrast, Argentina, Turkey, and Indonesia were boun…
A third world voice within the IMF
(1990). A third world voice within the IMF? The Round Table: Vol. 79, No. 314, pp. 189-197
Globalisation and Inequality
Neglected in liberal and other writings about globalisation is one particularly important feature of world politics: inequality. This chapter highlights the relationship between globalisation and inequality. It argues that inequality matters not just on grounds of equity, but is also important for understanding the nature of globalisation and its impact on world politics. Inequalities among states both shape the process of globalisation and are a…
Economic Ideas and International Relations
This article makes the case for investigating much more closely the substance of economic ideas in international relations. Recent attention to ideas in international relations assesses the impact of ideas on policy making but tells us very little about what types of economic ideas are most likely to be influential. Rather, the attention in "rationalist" approaches to international political economy is on political processes, given a set of actor…
Inequality, Globalization, and World Politics
Inequality is becoming an urgent issue of world politics at the end of the twentieth century. Globalization is not only exacerbating the gap between rich and poor in the world, but is also further dividing those states and peoples that have political power and influence from those without. While the powerful shape more ‘global’ rules and norms about investment, military security, and environmental and social policy, the less powerful are becoming…
Good Governance in International Organizations
ood governance moved onto the agenda of many international or ganizations at the end of the Cold War when calls for democracy ^*??^ and better government became louder and as expectations were heightened as to what international organizations might do to further this aim. Many multilateral agencies?from the UN to multilateral develop ment banks?took up the summons. They are now part of a chorus of voices urging governments across the world to hee…
Russia and the IMF
Russia's economic crisis in the summer of 1998 has renewed debate as to whether the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has helped, hindered or been irrelevant to economic transition in the core of the former Soviet Union. The authors examine the relationship between the Fund and Russia over the past ten years, highlighting a mixed record of successes, failures and the limits of the Fund's role. They argue that the institution may well have also in…
The Political Economy of Globalization
The Challenge of Good Governance for the IMF and the World Bank Themselves
Governance and the Limits of Accountability
Over the past two decades the functions of international economic institutions have greatly expanded to include programmes and policies which affect a wider range of people, groups, and organisations than before. Where previously people could hold their national governments to account for such policies, they must now look to international institutions where the decisions are being made. But to whom are these institutions accountable and are they …
Making the IMF and the World Bank more Accountable
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (the Bank)1 are now regularly accused of being secretive, unaccountable and ineffective. Not only radical non-governmental organizations (NGOs) but equally their major shareholders are demanding that the institutions become more transparent, more accountable and more participatory. Accountability, in particular, has become the catchcry of officials, scholars and activists in discussing the …
Holding Intergovernmental Institutions to Account
How can governments and peoples better hold to account international economic institutions, such as the WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF? This article proposes an approach based on public accountability, advocating improvements in four areas: constitutional, political, financial, and internal accountability. The argument for more accountability is made with two caveats: more accountability is not always good–it can be distorting and costly; and, …
The shifting politics of foreign aid
Aid for good governance is much in the news. Wealthy countries promised dramatically to increase aid to the world's poorest countries at the G8 meeting in Gleneagles in 2005, agreeing to double aid for Africa by 2010 and noted that according to the OECD, aid for all developing countries would increase by around $50 billion per year by 2010 (Gleneagles G8 Communique, 8 July 2005 at www.g8.gov.uk). Promoting good governance is at the heart of these…
Understanding Pathways Through Financial Crises and the Impact of the IMF
The International Monetary Fund is often perceived as imposing harsh policies on countries facing financial crisis. A comparison of six countries affected by the pressures of the 1990s suggests more subtle effects. In Malaysia, India, and South Africa, policymakers kept the IMF at arms length to permit a more gradual and heterodox adjustment, including capital controls in India and Malaysia. By contrast, Argentina, Turkey, and Indonesia were boun…
Uneven patterns of governance
The IMF is governed by a 24-member Executive Board which represents 184 countries. Although often prized as a small and efficient decision-making body, the Board represents some countries more effectively than others. This is due to the institutional structure and incentives within which the Board operates. Prime among them is a system of constituencies which have formed and evolved as countries have sought to improve their position in the organi…
Making corporate self-regulation effective in developing countries
Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contri…
The politics of influence
IMF surveillance is typically thought to have effect because it provides useful information to member countries, because it engages countries in cooperative behaviour or because it piggy-backs the bargaining power the IMF enjoys in some countries. This article explores IMF surveillance by bringing to bear theoretical explanations as to why and how these effects might work. The simplest explanation is a rationalist-realist one that the IMF has imp…
Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance
Journal Article Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance Get access NGAIRE WOODS NGAIRE WOODS 1Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 84, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 1205–1221, https://doi.org…
The Political Economy of Globalization
Globalization has become a particularly fashionable way to analyse changes in the international economy and in world politics. Advances in technology and modern communications are said to have unleashed new contacts and intercourse among peoples, social movements, transnational corporations, and governments. The result is a set of processes which have affected national and international politics in an extraordinary way. The chapters of this volum…
The Politics of Global Regulation
Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory capture" happens, and how it can be averted. Walte…
The Globalizers
"The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy."—from the IntroductionThe greatest success of the International Mo…
Improving health aid for a better planet
BACKGROUND: International development assistance for health (DAH) quadrupled between 1990 and 2012, from US$ 5.6 billion to US$ 28.1 billion. This generates an increasing need for transparent and replicable tools that could be used to set investment priorities, monitor the distribution of funding in real time, and evaluate the impact of those investments. METHODS: In this paper we present a methodology that addresses these three challenges. We ca…
The IMF's Unmet Challenges
The International Monetary Fund is a controversial institution whose interventions regularly provoke passionate reactions. We will argue that there is an important role for the IMF in helping to solve information, commitment, and coordination problems with significant implications for the stability of national economies and the international monetary and financial system. In executing these functions, the effectiveness of the IMF, like that of a …
Theorizing the role of executive heads in international organizations
International Relations scholars have long neglected the question of leadership in international organizations. The structural turn in International Relations led to an aversion to analysing or theorizing the impact of individuals. Yet, empirical studies suggest that different leaders affect the extent to which international organizations facilitate cooperation among states and/or the capacity of a global agency to deliver public goods. It is dif…
Multilateralism in the Twenty-First Century
The rise of geostrategic rivalry between the United States and China is changing international cooperation. As China seeks new influence and the United States seeks to contain China and to reduce its own international obligations, three dimensions of multilateralism are becoming particularly important. The first is the management of the superpower rivalry, through formal treaties, informal arrangements among states, and international institutions…
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