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1970 and 2005, the number of international migrants increased from 82 million to 200 million, comprising 3% of the world …
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last year has seen a rising tide of public concern, as well as pronouncements by the world's leading scientific body on …" of negotiations to tackle the problem. Both climate change and the responses it will require have major implications for … economic activity and international trade. According to the Stern Review, authored by the former World Bank Senior Economist …
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-South politics . . . negotiations between the groups tend to be dominated by kneejerk suspicion, defensiveness, and misunderstanding …
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According to conventional wisdom, the Basel II Accord - a set of capital adequacy standards for international banks drawn up by a committee of G-10 supervisors - is essential if we are to avoid another financial crisis. This paper argues that this conclusion is false: Basel II is not the...
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With the countdown to the crucial climate change summit in Copenhagen now well underway, prospects for a breakthrough appear limited. Behind the increasingly intensive negotiating activity, familiar divisions continue to hamper progress. The deadlock between developed countries and the major...
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In the wake of the global financial crisis, three G20 Summits have reinvigorated global cooperation, thrusting the International Monetary Fund centre-stage with approximately $1trillion of resources. With China, Brazil, India, Russia and other powerful emerging economies now at the table, is a...
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The quality of governance and institutions is increasingly seen as a fundamental factor in shaping the development prospects of poor countries. As a consequence, donor agencies have increasingly allocated resources to providing technical assistance for improving governance standards in such...
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. Instead rapid increases in discretionary earmarked funding to the WHO and World Bank, which we call Trojan multilateralism … constraints on bilateral control are not shifting. There is a persistent asymmetry of information between the WHO or the World …
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trade and investment diplomacy, and the rising interest in moving beyond treaty negotiations to new modalities for …
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, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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