What Africa needs from the G20
When the G20 meet in April the needs of African countries should be high on their agenda. The G20 have promised “comprehensively to reform the Bretton Woods institutions” . At least three major changes...
View ArticleLeaving the Poorest to Pay
As governments prepare for the G20 meeting in April, there is one thing you can be sure of: the agenda will be dominated by the global financial crisis. If you’ll forgive the expression, it’s an...
View ArticleWatkins on the forgotten victims of the global downturn
In the FT today, Harvey Morris quotes GEG Senior Visiting Fellow Kevin Watkins on the grave humanitarian crisis facing the world's most vulnerable people, resulting from the global economic downturn....
View ArticleA Forward-looking Agenda for Global Economic Governance: Trade, Climate, and...
The most critical challenge for global economic governance is to find effective and fair ways of mitigating and adapting to climate change whilst at the same time reducing global income inequalities...
View ArticleGlobal Economic Governance Priorities for G-20 Leaders: An African Perspective
The establishment of the Bretton Woods institutions in 1948 was intended to forestall the sort of crisis that had afflicted global economic and political governance structures in the preceding periods,...
View ArticleIt’s enough to make you want to blog
In good times or bad, there is one commodity which Africa always enjoys in abundance: namely, advice on fiscal responsibility. The real scarcity today is the flow of finance needed to prevent the...
View ArticleThe Demand for Global Governance: Containing the Spread of the Financial...
Guest blogger Richard Higgott sets out the challenges and priorities for G-20 leaders to contain the spread of the financial crisis to the trade sector. The governance of global trade and the...
View ArticleThe Trade System Amidst the Global Financial Crisis
Guest blogger Sylvia Ostry reflects on the challenges for the trade system amidst the financial crisis If there was ever any doubt about the close, even intimate, relationship between trade and finance...
View ArticleFor more and better aid in times of crisis, think outside the box
Despite all the statements and rhetoric to the contrary, there is little doubt that foreign aid from rich countries will contract as a consequence of the global financial crisis. Averting such further...
View ArticleOne-World Elasticities
If we had the numbers in front of us, what would a fair “global-bang-for-the-buck” stimulus package look like? George Gray Molina argues that the bailout debate is about different things in the...
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