Transnational Activist Networks and Rising Powers: Transparency and Environmental Concerns in the Brazilian National Development Bank.
This article studies how transnational advocacy networks can influence international development finance. Transnational activists shaped the World Bank's lending by increasing its transparency and limiting its socioenvironmental impacts. Developing countries can now look toward rising powers' nation...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 760 - 774 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2017
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