POLICING THE BANKS: ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS FOR THE FINANCIAL SECTOR
Book ID/图书代码： 08763008B24308
English Summary/英文概要： From 1999 to 2004 Maartje van Putten served as a member of the World Bank’s Inspection Panel. Using personal experience and extensive interviews with principal decision-makers and stakeholders in the Panel’s work, she chronicles the history of accountability in the World Bank and other major financial entities. Describing how formerly secretive financial institutions have been slow to accept responsibility for the consequences of their investments - especially the problems that can result from projects in developing countries - she shows that financing institutions can cause significant social and environmental damage and argues that new accountability mechanisms are necessary to reduce or prevent such damage. Because such institutions operate on a global scale, only semi-judicial accounting mechanisms can provide the necessary accountability. It is time for the private financial sector to follow multilateral financial institutions in creating independent mechanisms, mediation procedures, and access to decision makers for people harmed or potentially harmed by projects financed by their institutions.
Policing the Banks is a passionate plea for global accountability for all powerful financial players - including the transnational private banks that are now entering the scramble for profits from development projects in the third world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在现在的经济形势下，银行面对的困局和责任是什么?
特别是第三世界的投资项目，我们到底应该采取怎样的责任机制？ 作者Maartje van Putten是欧洲议会成员之一（1989-99），世界银行视察小组成员——（1999-2004）目前，非洲开发银行的独立审查机制成员之一。而在她服务于是世界银行视察小组的五年时间里，在工作期间，她曾多次与那些主要的决策者，赌金保管者等进行大强度的面谈，积累了很多的经验，记录了世界银行，以及其他大型金融组织的责任机制。
作者认为金融机构可以引发很多严重的社会问题，也可以破坏环境。从前的秘密非银行金融机构，就经常不愿意承担他们投资的风险。 特别是不愿意承担投资发展中国家的项目所引发的问题的责任。而这些机构又通常都是跨国组织，只有半司法会计机制可以提供必要的审核。
面对这样的状况，银行的责任是什么？
规范银行业， 在书中呼吁那些有势利的金融玩家，包括跨国私人银行，特备是那些也加入到争夺第三世界的发展项目的抢夺战的私人企业银行，能建立全球化责任机制。(AC)
Awards/获奖情况："Remarkable and pioneering - given the mounting public attention to the global problems of development finance, [this book] will attract a very broad audience."---Peter H. Sand, University of Munich
About the Author/作者介绍： Maartje van Putten was a member of the European Parliament (1989-99) and the World Bank Inspection Panel (1999-2004). Currently, she is a part of the Independent Review Mechanism of the African Development Bank.
作者Maartje van Putten是欧洲议会成员之一（1989-99），世界银行视察小组成员——（1999-2004）目前，非洲开发银行的独立审查机制成员之一
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