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		<title>A scorecard for the G20, the IMF and the World Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/10/a-scorecard-for-the-g20-the-imf-and-the-world-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ngaire Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The G20 leaders have met three times, giving the IMF $1 trillion of new resources with which to fight the fires of the global financial crisis. The World Bank has also been put on the job &#8211; to respond to what  the World Bank and IMF have called a &#8220;development emergency&#8221;.
How well are the institutions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out IMF and watch out Washington DC!</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/05/watch-out-imf-and-watch-out-washington-dc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ngaire Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday China upped the pace of the power shift from a US-dominated world monetary order, to a more global one. China and its Asian partners have just announced their strengthening of a $120 billion emergency currency pool. This is evidence of a new Chinese strategy unveiled in recent weeks and comprising three elements:

   1. substantial reform the IMF;
   2. the growth of a powerful Asian alternative to the IMF; and
   3. a world currency.

China’s new found confidence in addressing global economic governance is likely to spur policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic to get serious about addressing major issues of governance reform, emergency lending, and exchange rate cooperation. Where years of developing country efforts have failed to push this debate, China’s potent combination of pushing for reform and at the same time bolstering challenging alternatives is likely to finally have purchase.]]></description>
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		<title>The G20 deal – good for world, not so good for Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/04/the-g20-deal-%e2%80%93-good-for-world-not-so-good-for-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/04/the-g20-deal-%e2%80%93-good-for-world-not-so-good-for-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The G20 deal was an extraordinary achievement. But for all the positives, it’s important to recognise what the G20 has not delivered. If one of the benchmarks for measuring success is delivery for sub-Saharan Africa and the world’s poorest countries, the outcome is mixed at best – and disappointing at worst. The result is somewhere around 5/6 out of 10.]]></description>
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		<title>The G20&#8217;s Trade Agenda: A Step Forward, But Not Far Enough</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/04/the-g20s-trade-agenda-a-step-forward-but-not-far-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Deere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The G20 leaders' communiqué today has provided a vital boost for global trade, but several important trade-related commitments - to developing countries, to sustainable development and to multilateralism - were disappointing or missing. With a further G20 meeting scheduled before the end of the year, leaders must now deepen and expand their trade agenda to address these shortfalls. At the same time, they must acknowledge the democratic deficits of the G20 and explore more inclusive alternatives for global economic decision-making - in particular those that would ensure greater representation of the world's poorest countries.]]></description>
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		<title>It’s enough to make you want to blog</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/03/it%e2%80%99s-enough-to-make-you-want-to-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 economic downturn from turning into a human development reversal.
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		<title>Trading Our Way Out of the Financial Crisis: The Need for WTO Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/03/trading-our-way-out-of-the-financial-crisis-the-need-for-wto-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Gallagher and Timothy Wise</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Development should be the centerpiece of reforming the global economic architecture.  Pressing to conclude a World Trade Organization (WTO) deal to close the Doha Round based on the current proposals circulating in Geneva would be counter productive.  Instead, we offer five policies for reforming global trade that will enable economic development and stimulate the global demand needed for a global recovery.]]></description>
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		<title>Trading places: Why controlling finance should be the top priority for trade negotiators</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/03/trading-places-why-controlling-finance-should-be-the-top-priority-for-trade-negotiators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/03/trading-places-why-controlling-finance-should-be-the-top-priority-for-trade-negotiators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Kozul-Wright</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/?p=242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the latest efforts to close the Doha Round ended abruptly in December 2008, entrenched negotiating positions were a factor; but underlying systemic issues, ignored in many accounts of the stop-and-start history of the Round since 2001, were of greater significance: these include countries trading more but earning less; the dangers of premature deindustrialization; a growing technological divide and diminishing policy space.  While addressing these systematic challenges will be key to the future stability of the multilateral trading system, the immediate threat to international trade comes from a deeply dysfunctional system of unregulated finance.  Fixing that should be the urgent priority of the international community.]]></description>
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		<title>A Forward-looking Agenda for Global Economic Governance: Trade, Climate, and Inequality</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/03/a-forward-looking-agenda-for-global-economic-governance-trade-climate-and-inequality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/03/a-forward-looking-agenda-for-global-economic-governance-trade-climate-and-inequality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Gore</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/?p=250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 and realizing the development aspirations and unrealized human potential of millions of people in developing countries. Recent evidence, for example on sea level rise and the shrinking summer ice in the Arctic Ocean, suggests that climate change is occurring even faster than models pronounced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have predicted. Biophysical feedback mechanisms, too often omitted from climate models, are likely to be a key factor in the underestimation and are likely to make climate change irreversible once critical atmospheric temperatures are passed. How fast we act will affect both the magnitude and reversibility of climate change. Some say 2015 will be too late; but even if they are wrong, the climate issue will certainly be at the top of the public agenda by then.]]></description>
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		<title>What Africa needs from the G20</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/02/what-africa-needs-from-the-g20/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/02/what-africa-needs-from-the-g20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ngaire Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 should be pushed. ]]></description>
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		<title>The WTO in 2009: The Leadership Challenges</title>
		<link>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/01/the-wto-in-2009-the-leadership-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/blog/2009/01/the-wto-in-2009-the-leadership-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Deere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the WTO starts its work for 2009 this week, three items must be at the top of the agenda: debating the selection and mandate of the agency’s Director-General (Pascal Lamy's current four-year term will expire this August); setting a date for a full Ministerial Conference this year in Geneva; and forging a forward-looking agenda for that meeting.]]></description>
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