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- Title: Private Sector Influence in the Multilateral System: A Changing Structure of World Governance?
- Author : Global Governance
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 283 KB
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One of the most significant changes in the multilateral system in recent years is increased private sector participation. There has been a substantial increase in both scale and impact of interaction as new forms of cooperation have emerged. These range from global, multistakeholder initiatives to operational partnerships in individual countries and communities. Some multilateral institutions have a long history of involvement with the private sector, whereas for several others, these forms of cooperation mark a significant departure from the sometimes hostile relationship with the private sector that existed in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Most of what has been written about this subject is either concerned with the very normative question of whether increased private sector influence is inherently bad or good, or with issue-specific operationality and efficiency. Critics argue that we are currently experiencing a "privatization" of the multilateral system--a strategy by default, triggered by the financial crisis of the multilateral institutions. Proponents, on the other hand, see new forms of partnerships as one way that multilateral institutions can pursue their tasks more efficiently in a world in which governments of rich countries are not able or not willing to provide the resources necessary for pulling poor countries out of poverty and misery. (1)