Financing Sustainable Development: Crises of Legitimacy

Adil Najam
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Adil Najam: Department of International Relations, Boston University, Boston, USA, anajam@bu.edu

Progress in Development Studies, 2002, vol. 2, issue 2, 153-160

Abstract: This year presents us with two important opportunities to influence the direction of sustainable development financing - the UN Summit on Financing for Development and the World Summit on Sustainable Development. We may ultimately remember both as missed opportunities. We need to take a fresh look at the entire system of financing for development and reorient it towards a sustainable development orientation. This requires focusing on questions of legitimacy, accountability and capacity. Such action would challenge the now entrenched orientation of the regime as a ‘financing’ regime. It will require a re-examination of the institutions that are entrusted with the agenda and will find nearly all lacking in necessary capacities. An expanded institutional framework that incorporates intermediary and local non-government organizations (NGOs) would be absolutely critical. Finally, institutions (at all levels) will need to be invested in with a different set of performance metrics; measures which gauge the ability of institutions to deliver on their developmental goals, rather than focus only on financial accounting.

Date: 2002
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