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Hardening International “Soft” Law on Sustainable Development and Externalizing “Internal” Law on Development Finance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2025
Part II, comprising Chapters 5 to 7, presents the book’s core argument that IFIs are international lawmakers in the field of sustainable development who thus bear international legal accountability. The first prong of the thesis – IFIs’ contribution to international sustainable development lawmaking—is divided into two components. Chapter 5 details the first component and uses examples of ‘un-sustainable development projects’ in various developing countries to show how the safeguard systems work (and not) in ensuring the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of IFIs’ operations and the projects they support.
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