In this blog, GEG’s Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck argues that Ministers should use this Ministerial Conference to take leadership and push discussion of institutional reform and governance higher up the multilateral trade system’s official agenda.
With just over one week remaining before the Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference (30 November – 2 December 2009), WTO reform and the functioning of the [...]
The Global Economic Governance Programme is pleased to announce the release of a discussion draft of Strengthening Multilateralism: A Mapping of Proposals on WTO Reform and Global Trade Governance, by Carolyn Deere-Birkbeck and Catherine Monagle, and jointly published with the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).
China was urged to revalue its currency by G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at their meeting in Istanbul in October this year. How has this been received in China?
Is the G20 a short-term crisis arrangement focused narrowly on economic issues? Or does the increased prominence of the G20 indicate significant change in global governance beyond the crisis and beyond finance?
In a time when the world is still looking for a clear and definitive solution to the largest financial crisis since the Crash of 1929, the governments of Brazil and of other emerging-market countries have been given unusual political voice in global debates. But what interests and ideas has Brazil been vocalizing in such fora?
With Brazilian Central Bank Governor Henrique Meirelles visiting Oxford to give the GEG Annual Lecture this week, Leany Lemos lays out the four big challenges facing Brazil as it navigates the global economy.
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 – to respond to what the World Bank and IMF have called a “development emergency”.
*UPDATE 15 Feb 2010*: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen’s lecture is now available online. To listen to the audio or watch the video of The post-crisis politics of financial reform: business as usual or new global order?, visit the OpenSpires project. You can also find it on iTunes U and via the University of Oxford’s podcasts.
The outcome of last week’s L’Aquila meeting confirms a common (and worrying) aspect of G8 summits: an abundance of promises and commitments, without sufficient details and clear mechanisms that would ensure effective implementation. Perhaps it is finally time to relegate the G8 to the history books and leave it to the G20, or another more inclusive forum for dialogue and coordination, to take the reins of global economic policy.
Can 192 countries agree on a global deal to confront climate change when 17 economies cannot? For those watching the proceedings at the G8 summit in L’Aquila last week, this must be a nagging question in the lead up to the much-anticipated meeting on climate change in Copenhagen in December. The signs are mixed but [...]
