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Betts, Alexander - 2008

International migration represents one of the most obvious contemporary manifestations of globalization. With growth in … 1970 and 2005, the number of international migrants increased from 82 million to 200 million, comprising 3% of the world …

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Improving institutional coherence: Managing interplay between trade and climate change

Stilwell, Matthew - 2009

last year has seen a rising tide of public concern, as well as pronouncements by the world's leading scientific body on … economic activity and international trade. According to the Stern Review, authored by the former World Bank Senior Economist … Sir Nicolas Stern, "climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen". Responding to climate change …

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Reinvigorating debate on WTO reform: The contours of a functional and normative approach to analyzing the WTO system

Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn - 2009

, only five years after the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the collapse of the Seattle Ministerial …

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Governing climate change: lessons from other governance regimes

Ghosh, Arunabha; Woods, Ngaire - 2009

At the heart of the existing climate change regime is a divide between developed and developing countries. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN-FCCC) enshrines "common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities" and in so doing recognizes that historical...

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Avoiding dangerous climate change: Why financing for technology transfer matters

Ghosh, Arunabha; Watkins, Kevin - 2009

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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Global governance after the financial crisis: A new multilateralism or the last gasp of the great powers?

Woods, Ngaire - 2009

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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Buying better governance: The political economy of budget reforms in aid-dependent countries

De Renzio, Paolo - 2011

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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Trojan multilateralism: Global cooperation in health

Sridhar, Devi Lalita; Woods, Ngaire - 2013

. 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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Changing demands on the global trade and investment architecture: Mapping an evolving ecosystem

Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn; Botwright, Kimberley - 2015

The global trade and investment architecture (GTIA) plays a critical role in shaping the organisation and structure of international commerce - from production and distribution to consumption. Yet, tensions and questions abound - some longstanding, some new - about whose interests it best...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …

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