On GEG’s nightstand this week: high food prices in developing countries; and the perks and dangers of aid agency work.
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The nightstand: what GEG’s reading
Comments OffMay 13, 2009 / reading -
March 11, 2009 / aid, financial crisis
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. As Kevin has written previously, the global financial crisis is already draining development aid. The effect on the world’s poor is emphasised again in Morris’s article.
Tags: aid, financial crisis, kevin watkins
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November 19, 2008 / regulation
GEG and the Duke University Center for International Studies have published the results of the first major business survey about corporate financial reporting and the financial reporting standards developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
Assessing the IASB by Tim Büthe (Duke) and Walter Mattli (Oxford) reports key findings from the survey, conducted among financial executives—mostly CFOs and chief accounting officers—of companies listed on the major stock exchanges of the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. 749 of these corporate finance experts, representing firms from all industries, participated in the business survey, which is part of a larger study, the International Standards Project, jointly directed by Büthe and Mattli at Duke and Oxford Universities.
Tags: publications, regulation, walter mattli
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Reforming the IMF and World Bank: Ngaire Woods
Comments OffNovember 19, 2008 / financial crisis, imf, world bankNgaire Woods addresses the urgent but difficult task of reforming the world’s international financial institutions in a report for the Progressive Governance Conference hosted by Gordon Browne in April 2008.
In the report, she writes that global cooperation among governments is urgently needed to manage the current financial crisis. In principle, the IMF and World Bank are ideally placed to play a key role. But in practice, neither institution is adequately equipped to ensure cooperation to deal with the current crisis. Put simply, neither institution has a governance structure which today commands the confidence of emerging economic powers whose cooperation is vital if global collective action is to resolve the financial crisis.
Tags: financial crisis, imf, ngaire woods, publications, world bank
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Misfinancing global health: a case for transparency in disbursements and decision making
Comments OffNovember 19, 2008 / health, publicationsGEG Senior Researcher Devi Sridhar and Research Associate Rajaie Batniji have published a study in the Lancet examining the financing of global health.
Tags: devi sridhar, global health, publications, rajaie batniji
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October 30, 2008 / financial crisis
“We are living in economic chaos. Banks, homes, jobs, and businesses are at risk.
Yet curiously, the one thing that seems stable is the dollar.
It is a symbol – and a lever – of American power and leadership. It is the standard unit of account for much of the world’s economic activity. And in times of crisis, it has often seemed a safe haven.
But in the longer term, some experts believe this crisis could mark a turning point in the dollar’s fortunes, hastening a fall from power which has seen its value decline over several years before its recent rally.”
