Global Economic Governance Programme

Arunabha Ghosh writes in Indian business newspaper, The Financial Express, that developing countries face a triple challenge of increasing income growth, building energy infrastructure and confronting climate change. Reconciling these challenges – and increasing investments in cleaner technologies – would depend on financing, regulatory and institutional reforms, and international cooperation. Read his article here.

Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, millions of people have been forced to flee their homes. The causes and consequences of this and international responses to displacement lie at the very heart of world politics; however, these important issues have been largely neglected by its primary discipline: International Relations. Redressing this gap, the book systematically applies International Relations (IR) theory to the international politics of forced migration.

This represents the first textbook to merge conceptual tools of IR with empirical analysis of forced migration. It explains the central debates and concepts of IR – International Relations theories, sovereignty and statehood, security, international cooperation, global governance, global North-South relations, globalization, and regionalism – and highlights their relevance to forced migration. Using examples and in-depth case studies, Forced Migration and Global Politics adopts a ground-breaking approach to offer valuable insights to an issue of increasing complexity and importance in today’s world. It will be launched at the IASFM Conference in Cyprus on 28 June 2009.

A special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Global Health Governance, edited by Devi Sridhar and Larry Gostin (Georgetown University), on the topic of ‘Innovations in Global Health in a New Political Era’  has been published.  The articles are from top thinkers in global health governance from around the world. To read these articles click here.

The UNAIDS Leadership Transition Working Group was convened in July 2008 by GEG and the Center for Global Development as an independent ad hoc panel with the mandate to formulate a set of recommendations for the next executive director and the governing Programme Coordinating Board of UNAIDS.

The Working Group, made up of a core of 15 senior experts in global health and HIV/AIDS, published its recommendations in the report UNAIDS: Preparing for the Future.

Read their report in full here.

We’ve collected GEG’s resources on managing financial crisis in one easy-to-access place. While rich countries focus on their domestic economies, GEG highlights the impact of the crisis on development.  We examine the view from developing countries, and make recommendations for global leaders seeking to manage the crisis. Plus we link to the best analysis on the web.

Read more on GEG’s Global Financial Crisis Resouces page.