DEMOCRATIZING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY 1 Issued June 2004 by the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Tel. ++44-24-7657 2533 Fax ++44-24-7657 2548
[email protected] ISBN 0 902683 56 X (English original) ISBN 0 902683 58 6 (Arabic translation by Ola Abou Zeid) ISBN 0 902683 59 4 (French translation by Marc Mousli) ISBN 0 902683 60 8 (Portuguese translation by Sergio Flaksmana and Renato Aguiar) ISBN 0 902683 61 6 (Russian translation by Liliana Proskuryakova) ISBN 0 902683 62 4 (Spanish translation by Rosalba Icaza Garza with Marcelo Saguier) ISBN 0 902683 63 2 (Thai translation by Suntaree Kiatiprajuk) This report was prepared by Jan Aart Scholte of CSGR (
[email protected]), with extensive and much-appreciated collaboration from: Ola Abou Zeid, Cairo University (
[email protected]) Flávia Braga, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (
[email protected]) Christian Chavagneux, Alternatives Economiques, Paris (
[email protected]) Zie Gariyo, Uganda Debt Network, Kampala (
[email protected]) Elena Kochkina, Open Society Institute-Russia, Moscow (
[email protected]) Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (
[email protected]) Liliana Proskuryakova, Europe and Central Asia Region NGO Working Group on the World Bank, St Petersburg (
[email protected]) Gauri Sreenivasan, Canadian Council for International Co-operation, Ottawa (
[email protected]) Naruemon Thabchumpon, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (
[email protected] or
[email protected]) Carlos Vainer, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (
[email protected]) Sincere thanks also go to the several hundred civil society practitioners (listed in Appendix 3) who have contributed a wealth of ideas and experiences to this project.